# Films that put the actors and crew through hell

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**Created:** [December 11, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-put-the-actors-and-crew-through-hell/563762 "2010-12-11T05:19:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-put-the-actors-and-crew-through-hell/563762/61 "2010-12-15T23:11:27Z")

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> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#):
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> someone mention Gish still suffered from problems filing the ice floe on a river scene in “Way Down East”.

Hmm, does it go under I for ice or F for floe…

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**Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-put-the-actors-and-crew-through-hell/563762/62 "2010-12-18T02:45:40Z")

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I seem to recall hearing that the filming of “Saving Private Ryan” was very difficult on the actors involved … each said they lost significant amounts of weight, thanks to what amounted to an eight-week version of boot camp.

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**Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-put-the-actors-and-crew-through-hell/563762/63 "2010-12-18T04:39:08Z")

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I know someone who worked on \*\* The River Queen\*\*. Most of you will have been lucky enough not to have heard of it but apparently Samantha Morton(difficult) & Vincent Ward (barking mad) clashed constantly. From memory Vincent Ward was fired but had to be brought back to make sense of the whole mess (& it still didn’t :p) Added to that the weather was awful with constant rain, bad accommodation & difficulty getting paid or even finding out what you (as a crew member) were meant to be doing.

I can remember reading in a local newspaper that the horsemen/women in one of the LOTR movies had to sleep with the horses. Conditions sounded all round terrible but the woman being interviewed had no complaints.

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