hitchcock may never have taken his obsession with blondes further than with tippi hedren, a model he spotted in a television commercial for a diet drink and immediately signed to an exclusive, seven-year film contract. within months he had cast her as the lead in the birds.
hitchcock said he made the film in order to "scare the hell out of people," but hedren may have been more scared than any audience member. hitchcock ordered hedren not only a complete wardrobe for her films, but also-shades of vertigo-one for her personal life; he hired two crew members to spy on her when she left the set; and he repeatedly pressured her to drink martinis during rehearsals.
but the most upsetting episode came during the filming of the movie's climactic bird-attack scene. hitchcock put hedren in a giant cage and had two men throw live birds at her face. he shot the scene all day long, every day, for an entire week. it was only when she suffered a gash underneath on of her eyes that filming was stopped. "really the worst week of my life,"said hedren.
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