This role required intense physical acting. The character is dismembered and regenerates multiple times throughout the film. Takase spent hours in prosthetic makeup and trained in contortion to portray the unnatural, boneless regeneration of the flesh. enthusiasts often cite the "staircase crawl" scene in this film—where she drags her broken body up a flight of stairs using only her chin—as one of the most unsettling yet artistic horror sequences of the decade.
To fight boredom, she plays mental games: calculating tidal changes, counting strokes in prime numbers, or imagining each kilometer as a "room" she has to walk through. She famously dislikates the word "pain," preferring to call it "information" from her body. nanami takase