Death Wish II (1982) Nude Scenes

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Like Gallardo, Sherwood wasn’t expecting Winner to go as far as he did when shooting her rape scene. “I knew from the script that it would have to be brutal,” she says. “I didn’t know it was going to be that graphic. I was rather upset about it. I wish there was [a body double]. I was far too young to insist upon that. And to make filming even more difficult, the Los Angeles Times was doing a series of articles on [the film] and one of the days they chose to interview everybody was the day of my rape scene. That was pretty intense. I think we were shooting for about a week in the warehouse in the middle of the night. There was running and all that kind of stuff.

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Gallardo had spoken with rape victim Inez Garcia prior to playing her in the television movie and drew on that material while shooting her infamous violation scene in Death Wish II, which took six grueling days to get on camera. The thugs were played by young actors Thomas Duffy, Kevyn Major Howard, Stuart K. Robinson, Laurence Fishburne, and E. Lamont Johnson. Winner, who prefers actual locations, filmed the scene in an occupied neighborhood. “You could hear [my] screaming and I thought, ‘Oh, the poor neighbors,’ Gallardo says. “It was very difficult. [Winner] had to shoot like five different versions of it. It was pretty intense. [It was] mostly improvised. I had to get pushed and so forth. You’re very vulnerable. I had a few black and blues. I was tired. I had never done anything like that. [The other actors] were very careful to cover me up immediately after [a take]. I hated the still photographer. He kept taking pictures even after they had called, ‘Cut.’ I didn’t like that. It was an experience to last a lifetime. It was good for me to do. I had to let go of a lot of fears. It was hard for the [actors], too. I think one of them really got sick on the set. He threw up, or was going to, because it was so violent. [Laurence Fishburne] said it was the most horrible, awful scene he had to do.”

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Very violent rape scene for a mainstream movie.