Tobe Hooper once revealed that in the early stages of shooting they waxed Mathilda May's pubic hair off completely thinking it would make her look less nude. It didn't. In fact it was worse because then her vulva was exposed, making her look even younger. So they had her grow a bikini strip of pubes back. May had to frequently remove her pants and panties to allow Hooper to "inspect" her. Make up artist Sandra Exelby talked about it in an interview: "We had this big discussion about Mathilda May. He [Hooper] said I want all her body hair off. And I said, 'You can't do that Tobe.' She's a young girl. At the time she was 18. 90% of the film she was on-camera nude while walking about. You cannot take all the body hair away. He said, 'Well I want the pubic hair as short as possible. And lighten it up. I don't really want to see it.' So every morning I was on my knees trimming and coloring and making it all look perfect." In some cases, Exelby didn't actually cut it, but simply sprinkled some hairs cut from wigs around May to satisfy Hooper.

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