Eric Christian Olsen Talks Torture, Teases NCIS: Los Angeles Season 5
Did you watch the torture scene?
Olsen: I read your article "Did the Torture Go Too Far?" I read the article and then went back and re-watched that because of what you wrote and I was like, 'she was right.' It's not graphic, it's not gruesome. It's just literally that scream at the end. And you wrote very kind words about me and what they allowed me to do on that show. And I think that you're right. I think what's so heartbreaking is that you see a character that I think for some reason has made so many emotional attachments with fans that they and you saw him just at the bottom.
It was the scream. You sold it with the scream. I think people imagined more than what is actually shown.
Olsen: Yeah. He really just puts the drill up and then it goes back to Sam and off camera you hear that awful scream.
How was it to film that scene?
Olsen: It was awful. It was awful. I couldn't do a horror movie. I know that. My buddy did Hostel and I almost did that movie with him, but I couldn't have done it. Jamming that thing in my mouth and I'm all tied down. I read a bunch of books this summer about torture and war and about PTSD and what the effects of that kind of -- what we shot. And, I can't even imagine what that's like for someone to go through when that's real because even when it was fake and they yelled "cut" it still got in my head.
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Did you watch the torture scene?
Olsen: I read your article "Did the Torture Go Too Far?" I read the article and then went back and re-watched that because of what you wrote and I was like, 'she was right.' It's not graphic, it's not gruesome. It's just literally that scream at the end. And you wrote very kind words about me and what they allowed me to do on that show. And I think that you're right. I think what's so heartbreaking is that you see a character that I think for some reason has made so many emotional attachments with fans that they and you saw him just at the bottom.
It was the scream. You sold it with the scream. I think people imagined more than what is actually shown.
Olsen: Yeah. He really just puts the drill up and then it goes back to Sam and off camera you hear that awful scream.
How was it to film that scene?
Olsen: It was awful. It was awful. I couldn't do a horror movie. I know that. My buddy did Hostel and I almost did that movie with him, but I couldn't have done it. Jamming that thing in my mouth and I'm all tied down. I read a bunch of books this summer about torture and war and about PTSD and what the effects of that kind of -- what we shot. And, I can't even imagine what that's like for someone to go through when that's real because even when it was fake and they yelled "cut" it still got in my head.
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