Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen and Carl Gabriel Yorke were opposed to the real animal death scenes. In the script, it was Yorke's character who killed the pig, but due to his refusal, Luca Barbareschi did it without any problems (even though, during the scene, the animal kicked wildly before being shot). Yorke said that it was very difficult to continue with the scene while he heard the pig's agonizing squeals and he was unable to say his lines correctly. He also said that if he had known that animals would be killed during the filming, he would not have agreed to make the film. Although Pirkanen was, in a way, an active participant during the turtle scene, according to Ruggero Deodato, he cried after that scene and after the death of every animal. Ciardi also spoke negatively about those scenes, especially the monkey and turtle scenes, and described the last one as the worst experience of her life. After the monkey scene, some members of the cast and crew said that if another animal was killed for a scene, they would drop out of the filming, but no one could keep that promise.

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