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Alicia Witt Thought She Saw a Dead Body While Working on ‘88 Minutes’


‘Longlegs’ star Alicia Witt is looking back on some of her creepiest on-set movie experiences exclusively with Us, including an ‘out-of-body’ scare she had alongside Al Pacino

The 2007 film — which stars Pacino as a forensic psychiatrist and Witt as his teaching assistant — shares some similarities with the Osgood Perkins-helmed 2024 horror, Longlegs. When I was about to film The Upside of Anger, a cat fell on my face from the awning above where Keri Russell and I played backgammon, tearing my mouth open and requiring 10 stitches. I’ve had an out-of-body experience during filming: While working with Al Pacino in 88 Minutes, he had to gently slap me to snap me out of a panic attack because I convinced myself I was seeing a dead body.

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