The mother in The Exorcist, Ellen Burstyn, hesitated in performing an action stunt where her onscreen child Regan was wounding her; she wound up telling director William Friedkin she would do the stunt where she was thrown across the room to the wall, but asked him not to have the production coordinator pull the rope she was tied to too hard. She wound up doing the stunt and getting wounded; in fact, she blames Friedkin for permanently wounding her spine, an injury she still struggles with (Friedkin never denied this, and the stunt coordinators concur in interviews that they were pulling the rope as hard as possible, against her wishes).

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