Voted to be CinemaBlend’s favourite film of 2024 (and my private favourite of final 12 months as nicely), author/director Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is a physique horror masterpiece that’s chock filled with completely disgusting sequences – however it’s spectacular that arguably the grossest of all is the scene the place Dennis Quaid’s Harvey is in a restaurant scarfing down shrimp. The way in which that the digicam will get all up in his mouth as he chows down immediately turns your abdomen. As sick as it’s to see on display screen, nonetheless, the actor had a blast filming it and having fun with a pleasant seafood meal.
This morning, Dennis Quaid was featured on Right this moment speaking a few bunch of his upcoming initiatives, however the interviewer made time within the dialog to particularly ask about his work on The Substance and the notorious shrimp consuming scene. Based on Quaid, he knew precisely how nice the second within the movie could be as he was capturing it, and he was very completely satisfied to maintain consuming the sauce-covered crustaceans take after take:
I knew it was a legend even whereas I used to be doing it. I feel it was three, it is gone to love 5 kilos of shrimp that I ate. I do not know for positive, however I did devour all of them – besides those that had been on my face. However I had numerous enjoyable doing that. Nice director, a lot enjoyable to work with.
For my cash, there are few “how the sausage will get made” facets of Hollywood which might be as gross because the spit bucket: a good friend to actors who do not need to make themselves sick performing take after take and angle after angle of a scene the place their character is consuming. That being mentioned, I really feel like Dennis Quaid throwing 5 kilos of shrimp within the making of The Substance may very well be even grosser.
I like consuming shrimp, however there’s undoubtedly a degree the place an excessive amount of is an excessive amount of. That is apparently not a standpoint that’s shared by the star of Frequency and Far From Heaven. In his phrases,
Properly, it was like going to Capt. Benny’s, you recognize what I imply? Simply give me a bath.
I can perceive if a few of you’re feeling some rumble in your guts after studying this, however I’ll say this: I’ll undoubtedly take into consideration Dennis Quaid consuming three to 5 kilos of shrimp the subsequent time that I watch The Substance, and I’ve a sense that it’ll solely improve my appreciation for the nastiness of the second within the extraordinarily gnarly movie.
Should you’re feeling as much as testing my speculation your self, the Oscar-winning movie for Finest Make-up and Hairstyling is out there to stream proper now – all you want is a Mubi add-on subscription on Amazon Prime Video (which is out there with a seven-day free trial). For all of you bodily media followers, The Substance can be out there on 4K UHD and Blu-ray.