FILM 2082: UNDER THE SKIN (2013)

TRIVIA: The men lured into the van by Scarlett Johansson's character were not actors. Jonathan Glazer had hidden cameras installed in the van and only informed the men afterwards that they were in a movie.

Adam Pearson, who plays the disfigured man who is lured into the vehicle, broke his leg when he was struck by a cab on his way to audition for his role. Director Jonathan Glazerauditioned him the next day at the hospital and gave him the job.

Scarlett Johansson did the nude scenes herself without the use of a body double.

The film took nearly ten years to be made, and one of the early drafts of the scripts included a Scottish married couple who were revealed to be aliens in disguise. Brad Pitt was, at the time, cast as one half of the couple.

Close to the end, one of the motorcycle riders overlooks a valley shrouded in fog. The composition of the image and the pose of the rider mimics Caspar David Friedrichs' 1818 oil painting "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog".

One of the locations where this film was shot was in the Robert Street area of Port Glasgow (where the second victim is lured). Filming had to be delayed for a number of days as there was a real-life murder in the next street prior to filming and the police had cordoned the area off.

Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.

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