Lynskey says her husband Jason Ritter was a wreck while watching the scene.
When Gore reaches for an axe, the two engage in a deadly struggle.
Montgomery emerges alive after striking Gore 41 times with the weapon.
Melanie Lynskey in ‘Candy’.Tina Rowden/Hulu
Lynskey tells EW that her husbandJason Ritterwas a “wreck” while watching the scene.
“He was so upset watching it,” she says.
“Everything that we did, it was taken from the court documents.
Jessica Biel in ‘Candy’.Tina Rowden/Hulu
It just doesn’t equal up.”
And I wanted to look away at a certain point.
It’s really unnerving [but] I mean, it’s what happened."
“It had this protective leather cover,” Biel says.
“No one was being unsafe.
Before we would roll, I would pick it up, put it down.
Melanie would pick it up.
We’d just pick it up a couple times [and] remember the weight…
It was so hard bringing tension to your body to make the slow move of this axe thing.
Lynskey agrees: “It was hard to remember how heavy it was.”
“We’re doing our thing and then cut [and I’d ask] ‘Are you okay?
Are you okay?'”
“We’re both going back and forth, [asking] ‘Are you hurt?
You’re fine, right?
I didn’t get you, right?
Did I step on your foot?
I’m so sorry if I stepped on your foot.’
And then we’d do a good sequence, and it would be like, ‘High five!’
So we were high fiving and… just dancing together, really.”
Biel responds, “I definitely didn’t feel it.
We really didn’t feel it.
But nobody got injured, so it was a huge success.”
All five episodes ofCandyare now streaming on Hulu.
