Shawnee Smith in Saw II
Interview: Shawnee Smith on Saw III
“There's a moment I'm like sitting,” Smith recalled. “And Darren says, ‘Shawnee, you have to see this scene in the editing room. You farted.’ I said, ‘Darren, my God. I've been married for seven years, he's never heard me fart. Like I'm going to fart? Believe me, I'd remember if something slipped while we were filming this incredibly emotional scene! Like, it wasn't me.’ He says, ‘Just come watch.’ So we watch on the screen. It says, big insert, ‘Nothing has been altered,’ right? It's the scene, I'm bedside, Tobin, I'm very upset. And at one point, I just kind of went like [inhales]. And there's this very obvious sounding fart sound. So Darren took it to the grave. Actually, at one point, he said, [whispers] ‘I put it in.’”
As things escalated, Smith collaborated with the crew to perpetrate more flatulent pranks. “There were high-tech whoopie cushions stashed here and there. He had things, like elaborate plans, but then like somebody would click their walkie and it'd make the thing go off. I stayed, like I could have gone home at eight o'clock. I stayed and worked out with our insane locations manager Roger, who's a Muay Thai trainer, till ten o'clock because Darren had planned this fart joke. I forget who it was on, but it sounded so good, right? The whole plan was so great, I stayed until ten. And at 9:45, I hear this big commotion on the set, because I said, ‘Don't do this without me. Don't do this without me.’ Well, somebody, one of the PAs had pushed the walkie and it set off the fart machine.”
Finally, Smith tried to get back at Bousman with a fart of her own. “I don't have access to these high-tech whoopie things. So I just have this old school, like you lick the thing, and it makes like a wet fart. It's really great. And I fill it up, and I get it behind my wardrobe, and I'm standing there, and I couldn't get it to go. And I'm holding in my laughter, and Tobin doesn't know if I'm crying or laughing. And at some point, I said, ‘I'm sorry, Tobin.’ And at some point, he got, like, ‘Where are you, Shawnee? Where are you? I'm trying to find you.’ Finally, I just said, ‘Tobin, I'm trying to do a fart joke. Here it is. I can't make it work!’ And I said, ‘I gotta do this to Darren, to get him back for this torture over this whole movie about this scene. Can you do it?’ So then he tries to do it. He's circling. He can't. He doesn't know how to do a whoopie cushion, like at all. It was a total failure. And Darren didn't even have his headphones on, to hear it. Oh, it was very anti-climactic.”
Saw III comes to theatres on October 27th.
For the posters, more trailers, synopsis and more movie info, go to the Saw
III Movie Page.
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