USA: Luke Wilson deals with "Vacancy" co-star Kate Beckinsale's claustrophobia while filming thriller

Record ID: 476401

  • Title: USA: Luke Wilson deals with "Vacancy" co-star Kate Beckinsale's claustrophobia while filming thriller
  • Date: 26th April 2007
  • Summary: TORONTO, CANADA (APRIL 15, 2007) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) KATE BECKINSALE, WHO PORTRAYS AMY FOX IN FILM TALKING ABOUT GETTING BRUISED WHILE MAKING FILM, SAYING: "I think it was also because I am playing a human being you know I am not a super hero or whatever it is I've played before it was much more kind of casual. You just sort of go through the scene and see what
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  • Story Text: British actress Kate Beckinsale and co star Luke Wilson check into a desolate motel in the thriller "Vacancy" which leads them down scary ventures including performing various high energy stunts.
    Beckinsale is used to action films like the werewolf adventures "Underworld" that she has starred in but she admits that the stunt crews took her skills for granted.
    "I think it was also because I am playing a human being you know I am not a super hero or whatever it is I've played before it was much more kind of casual. You just sort of go through the scene and see what happens so you have not put your knee pads. You know don't have the stunt team really worried so Frank Whaley beat the crap out of me. I got to tell you he was tougher then any werewolf I've have had to face I was bruised after that," Beckinsale said in Los Angeles, California on Monday (April 15).
    The stranded couple, David (Wilson) and Amy (Beckinsale) Fox, are mired in the unhappy final moments of an unravelled marriage. The unexplained death of their only son has them at each other's throats as the car refuses to work.
    The couple are forced spend a restless night at a dilapidated roadside motel overseen by a creepy, bespectacled manager (Frank Whaley).
    To make matter worse Beckinsale an admitted claustrophobic had to spend hours shooting in a cramped tunnel with her co-star.
    "She ended up being great about that. She had said at the very beginning that she has a problem with that kind of thing and I was thinking I am fine with it I have no problem with it and then they threw the rats into the picture. I was like 'Guys is this safe? now what happens if I get bitten from one of these?' But you know she had them in her hair and everything she couldn't have been tougher about it," Wilson said.
    The scene filmed in the underground tunnel is shot as the two characters try to escape and have to climb underground where they are met with dozens of rodents.
    "Coming from London rats really scare me because you know the rats you get on a Hollywood movie set are nothing like the rats I saw growing up. You know not that they were regular visitors at my mother's house but we had a couple problems they were really big. They were the size of the family cat and black and dirty juts frightening. These were like sort of like elongated hamster. They were very groomed from what I was expecting to so it wasn't too bad but I was so side tracked from worrying about the tunnel that I didn't really think about the rats until that moment anyway," Beckinsale told Reuters.
    Moviegoers can catch all the gory thrills when the film opens in the United States on Friday (April 20).
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