Rudd confirmed our suspicions that this was a terrible scene to film, saying, “It was horrible. I read the script and thought, ‘Oh, what a striking opening! It’s really, you know, that’s a really cool way to open the show.’” True, but what he didn’t think about was how they’d capture the footage.
He went on, “I stupidly didn’t think about what it would be like to film it, because I’m also just wearing a diaper, as well.” That’s a key fact if we’ve ever heard one.
To make things more macabre and uncomfortable, the scene was shot publicly on the first day of filming. He recalled, “People are riding their bikes, I’m in a diaper getting into a grave.”
Wondering how Rudd managed to breathe in his grave? It was pretty simple actually.
“I had to be wrapped in a bag and then I had to breathe through this tube and they kept putting dirt over me. The natural instinct in all of us knows that that’s bad. And it was awful. It was terrible.”
But that literal nightmare wasn’t the worst part. In fact, Rudd says the most unpleasant aspect of the whole ordeal was that “it was cold.”
Um, OK.