10 Famous Movie Scenes Only Made Possible By Deceiving Actors
5. Juliette Lewis Had No Idea Robert DeNiro Was About To Thumb Her Mouth - Cape Fear
Clearly not learning his lesson from being on the receiving end of an unexpected turn of events in the middle of a scene during the making of Deer Hunter, Robert De Niro decided to dish out his own unanticipated surprise to one Juliette Lewis whilst filming Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear.
With the pair locked in a pretty intense and often uncomfortable conversation in a high school auditorium, Lewis would reveal that the actors never went as far as to rehearse the scene in advance. Meaning everything that went down in the exchange was completely off-the-cuff. Admitting that the moment De Niro opted to shove his thumb in her mouth completely shocked her in the moment after being told by Scorsese ‘Bob is going to do something’, Lewis summed up the discombobulating act by saying:
"I'll tell you exactly what it felt like, emotionally - like someone walked up, penetrated you and then walked away."
Despite being understandably unsettled by the improvised action, Lewis continued on staying in the moment and decided to actually suck on the digit of Max Cady in one of the film's most infamous sequences.