Warning: The article contains spoilers for Evil Dead Rise.
Actress Alyssa Sutherland recently opened up about her experience working on Evil Dead Rise and shared her honest thoughts on why she despised filming the vomiting scenes.
In the horror film, which premiered in theaters this week, Sutherland portrays the role of Ellie, a woman whose reunion with her estranged sister Beth (Lily Sullivan) takes a twisted turn after the mother of three becomes possessed by a demon. Evil Dead Rise also stars Morgan Davies, Mia Challis, Nell Fisher, Gabrielle Echols, Billy Reynolds-McCarthy, Jayden Daniels, and Nedim Jahić, among others.
Immediately after being possessed by an evil entity, Ellie “dies” after indulging in a horrifying scene of projectile vomiting in front of her terrified family. But while the scene added to the whole aura of the film, Sutherland, during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, revealed she found the vomiting scenes in Evil Dead Rise “disgusting” and explained the process it took to create those shots. The 40-year-old disclosed that having to use the vomit rig, a machine that produces the projectile vomiting effect, and struggling with it made it a challenging experience for her. Sutherland said,
“I think the grossest for me was the vomit rig. I struggled with the vomit rig. It was disgusting. I don’t like vomiting. Who does? I don’t think I’m singling myself out there.”
Later, Sutherland provided an in-depth description of how the vomit rig works. The star stated that a vomit rig is a “long tube with a mouthpiece” that she would have to wrap her mouth around, and to get the perfect shot of her vomiting, the machine would forcefully collect all of the liquid up the tube which will then end up coming out of her mouth.
Sutherland added that another reason she hated using the vomit rig was because of the vibrating feeling she experienced in her mouth. She explained while stating she wouldn’t be using a vomit rig again if it’s not required,
“It’s this long tube, with a mouthpiece at the end. You have to wrap your mouth around this mouthpiece, and they force the vomit up the tube, and it bounces off the mouthpiece, and then out of your mouth again. But just the velocity with which the actual vomit comes up that tube and into your mouth, your whole head is vibrating. It’s disgusting. It’s really, really gross. I was like, ‘If I never have to do this again, then that’s good.’ I was happy when that day was over.”
Evil Dead Rise is now playing in theaters.