[Robertson has almost lost her voice, she explains, as the 12-hour shoot demanded that she lose her cool on one very hot and humid Montreal day, in the dramatized road-rage incident that lies at the centre of Last Exit . The sequence, which director John Fawcett ( Ginger Snaps ) required be shot from more than 20 angles, called for Robertson to smash a $50,000 Jeep Cherokee with a telescope while in a blind rage.] It's the kind of thing that's not too hard to do once or twice, ... But I had to do it about 20 times over. There were people standing all around the street where we filmed it. When I finally finished off the car and they yelled 'cut' for the final time, the crowd that had gathered began cheering and clapping.
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