9 REAL Acting Moments Created By Deception
5. The First Victim Was Pulled Under Without Warning - Jaws
In Jaws' iconic opening sequence, actress Susan Backlinie ventures out far from the shore for a night-time dip, only to become shark chum as the score’s scare chords begin and she’s turned to the first victim of the eponymous great white during gales of screaming. Now initially, the then-young director Steven Spielberg wasn’t quite satisfied with said screams, prompting him to take a novel approach.
On the next take, a stagehand yanked Backlinie beneath the water’s surface without any prior warning, with the actor’s understandable shock in the moment resulting in the iconic ear-splitting scream scene we all recall.