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Producer Arnon Milchan, who was Elizabeth McGovern's lover at the time, has a cameo appearance as a chauffeur. In an interview, he described the experience. "There was a scene in the movie where Robert De Niro was supposed to rape Elizabeth in the back seat of a limousine, after she informs him that she's leaving and moving to Hollywood to realize her dream. A real complicated scene. De Niro suddenly suggested that I should play the role of the limousine driver. I reacted with skepticism. After all, I'm not an actor. There were four pages of text in that scene; it was not inconsequential. In any event, the idea caught on, and Sergio Leone conducted a formal audition for me. After that my skepticism suddenly disappeared and I found myself wanting to play the role more than anything in my life. It took 13 takes to get the scene down. Leone literally showed De Niro how to rape Elizabeth and asked De Niro to physically repeat his instructions before filming commenced, and I couldn't remember even once how to open the limousine door. On take two I forgot to stop the limousine where I was supposed to. In the meantime, De Niro was repeatedly "raping" my girlfriend in the back seat, for 13 takes! And you know Robert De Niro, a real actor, every take was from the heart! He was totally committed to the realism of the scene. And I was supposed to stop the limousine and ask Elizabeth, 'Are you all right?' as I exited the limousine, opened the door, and removed my hat. That's it. In the end, they cut the scene down so much that I was only left with that one line, 'Are you all right?' And even after that, Leone did not like the sound of my voice so he hired another actor to do a voice-over. It was a completely humiliating experience, but it was exhilarating at the same time."

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