Actor who filmed iconic orgy scene in Midsommar revealed shocking thing viewers didn't see
The star of 2019 movie Midsommar once spoke about the things that were left out of the iconic orgy scene in the movie.
If you don't know Midsommar, it's Ari Aster's horror film about a couple (Jack Raynor and Florence Pugh) who get involved with a Swedish cult.
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There's lots of what can only be described as weird cult s**t going on in the movie which our couple end up going through.
One of these is the scene where Christian (Raynor) is given hallucinogenic tea to drink and is then made to try and get 15-year-old girl Maja (Isabelle Grill, who was in her 20s when filming took place) pregnant while the rest of the cult's women watch and mimic what's happening while nude.
Naturally this is quite a challenging scene to have in the movie and when Midsommar was first released Reynor told Vulture that the movie's orgy scene was the most difficult one to shoot during the film.
He also opened up about how much of it actually ended up in the movie, saying they filmed for hours and that it could have been 'a lot more graphic' with some of the footage they got.
He said: "It was pretty hard-core. The vast majority of those ladies don’t speak any English.
"We shot the scene for a good 12 hours. A lot of it had to be cut back for censorship. I’m sure there will be a director’s cut where it’s a lot more graphic because it was.
"There were 37 setups to be executed that day, which is insane to try to do that in one day. They were very ambitious shots, as you can see. We got every single one of them.
"It seemed never-ending. It was collllld in that room, and we were all butt-naked the whole time. It was tough. I was trying to break the tension and make some jokes and stuff.
"I did, but the language barrier was a killer. That poor lady who’s getting down and pushing my ass into that girl? I just don’t think she wanted to do it!
"But she did, she committed herself. Everybody committed themselves to that scene."
There is actually a director's cut of Midsommar which was released a few weeks after the theatrical cut of the movie came out, though it didn't just stick in the many hours of orgy footage which didn't end up in the final film.
Some fans of the movie aren't actually such great fans of the director's cut, saying it 'said things out loud that were better left unsaid' and ended up being 'way worse and less interesting'.
The movie ended up being well received by critics, though audiences found it more polarising.
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Joe Harker