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Stars risked shark attacks for movie

09/09/2004 - 18:33:18
The stars of new movie Open Water were terrified of being eaten alive by sharks during filming.

Actors Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis play Susan and Daniel - a couple who go scuba diving on holiday and get stranded in dangerous seas.

But, unlike the 1975 classic Jaws, which used a mechanical fish, Open Water relied on real-life sharks, and movie-makers encouraged the vicious creatures to swim around the two anxious stars by covering them in pieces of bloody tuna.

Ryan admits: "It's dangerous, they are wild animals, and something could have gone wrong but the odds were very, very good that they wouldn't.

"I certainly never would have got into the water - not that I would have admitted it at the time - if I wasn't being very, very well looked after.

"I was scared, but I knew we were safe. Sharks are very big muscular animals and they are scary."

Travis adds: "All the emotional stuff, the screaming and splashing around was done weeks later after we'd finished working with the sharks, as a safety precaution."

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