Playing a society-reject who tries to survive in a desert wasteland after having her limbs cut off by cannibals was a terrifying experience, British model-turned-actress Suki Waterhouse said at the Venice film festival.
The 24-year-old actress landed her first major role with “The Bad Batch,” which premieres in Venice and is one of 20 US and international movies competing for the coveted Golden Lion that will be announced on Saturday.
“I was absolutely terrified and I stayed terrified throughout the whole thing,” Waterhouse told a press conference ahead of the movie’s official premiere. Shooting in the desert and portraying a character with a prosthetic leg and without an arm was a challenge both physically and mentally, said the actress, who has modelled for fashion house Burberry.
“I’m a girl from London who’s been in a different industry, and I was suddenly like kaplonked in the salt and sea.”
Writer and director Ana Lily Amirpour described her second feature film as a “action-adventure-fairytale” that explores the lives of people on the margins of society and the limits of survival and human understanding.

Source: Arab News