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Snake Charmer
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Did you see the recent scene on SUN where Olivia
picked up a necklace, and it turned into a massive
colony of maggots? Don't worry - Lesley-Anne Down
(Olivia) didn't actually have to touch the disgusting
creatures. "I can't stand maggots, and I don't like
rats, either," Down admits. Now, most of us don't
have to have anything to do with either type of vermin,
but occasionally, actors find themselves having close
encounters of the creepy-crawly kind. Not that Down
has a problem with every less-than-adorable animal.
"I don't mind spiders or snakes," she says. In fact,
once, on a movie project on which she was working,
"they had a snake on the set, a huge python, about
10 feet long. It was in a box, and I felt sorry for it.
So I told the trainer that the snake could have my
dressing room. Mr. Python and I lived together for
the day." Which still leaves us wondering just who it
was we saw handling all those maggots. Luckily for Down,
that unpleasant task fell to a double.
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