The Scrapped Indiana Jones Scene That Freaked Out The Cast
Snakes can be really cool, in a controlled environment. According to a pair of interviews in ‘The Making of the Temple of Doom,’ Capshaw suffers from a severe case of ophidiophobia. So, when it came time to shoot a scene where her showgirl character Willie finds a snake coiling around her, she balked. According to Slashfilm.com, that led to the scrapped Indiana Jones scene because it freaked out Kate and the cast.
Producer Frank Marshall, eager to get the shot off with a minimum of fuss, attempted to assuage Capshaw’s fears by introducing her to the reptile with whom she’d be sharing a very brief scene. It didn’t go well. “I went over and looked at it, and looking at it, I get tears in my eyes and I’m having a hard time breathing and I’m looking… I can almost work myself up right now. And I went over and I put my hand on the snake, and I lost it.”
“She was shaking, and she was all white, and you could see right through her makeup. She had lost all of her color. And I said, ‘I’m not gonna put you through this. Let’s cut it out.’ And I cut the whole scene out of the movie. I think she probably years and years later, married me for that!”
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