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Elizabeth McGovern was asked about one of the film's most controversial scenes, when Noodles rapes Deborah in the back seat of a car. "In terms of acting, that scene was, in some ways the easiest of all," McGovern said. "There was something very clear to react to. It was incredibly easy to understand, incredibly easy to do." She leaned forward, as if to impart a guilty secret: "My feeling about that scene, and I hate to admit it, was just 'Oh thank God, I don't have to do any acting, at least I know what I'm doing here. At least I don't feel confused about what I'm supposed to play.'" She continued "In some ways I feel as though the entire experience of making the film, or maybe that entire period of my life, was represented in that scene. I was this young person, incredibly like Deborah, I had a lot of ambition and drive, and I was in a position where I was viewed by the world in a way that had nothing to do with reality, much the same way as Noodles has this image of Deborah. You're being used and you feel used. I suppose many young girls would think of it as the most wonderful thing in the world, to be this hot young movie star that people have sexual or romantic fantasies about, but in fact you learn very quickly that who you are is nothing to do with what their projection of you is. I look back on that whole period of being an object, being someone else's fantasy, as not very nice. I'm relieved not to be that any more. I look back on that period of my life, and the rape was sort of a metaphor for what it felt like."

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