For Seven's 30th anniversary, David Fincher reveals what was in the box

A fake head of you know who? “No, that’s completely ridiculous.”

To get the year 2025 off to a good start, David Fincher emerges Seven in 4K. Knowing the filmmaker's picky side, this new version which will arrive on January 7 on UHD blu-ray in the United States, after a handful of broadcasts across the Atlantic in IMAX, should have been carefully retouched. He confides about this toEntertainment Weeklyand takes advantage of the thirty-year anniversary of his cult thriller to reveal what he really had hidden in the box.

Beware of spoilersobviously: everything that follows details one of the key scenes from the film with Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey.

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When the reporter addresses a persistent rumor about a fake body (or at least a fake head) of Gwyneth Paltrow, designed by the film crew especially for SevenDavid Fincher responds straight away: “No, that’s completely ridiculous.”

Really ? However, the story circulating is quite precise: there is a fake body of the actress, a prosthesis which would then have been reused by Steven Soderbergh to film Contagionin 2011. The director firmly denies this.

“I think we had slipped a seven or eight pound bag into that box. We had done some research to determine the right weight: if Gwyneth Paltrow's body mass was that much, then how much could her head weigh? So we had a clear idea of ​​what it would represent, so quite simply, I would say that there was a certain weight inside.”

“We also wore a wig, he continues. So when Morgan Freeman opened the box he could catch a few fake hairs on some of that tape used to seal it. So there you have it, I think it was a bag weighing a specific weight, and a wig, that it contained a little blood, so that some of the hairs stuck to each other.

“I would say Morgan opened 16 or 17 of these boxes, he finally details. But like I always say, you don't need to see what's in the box if you have Morgan Freeman.”

Mystery solved. If you want to know more about Seventhe team has not been stingy with anecdotes over the years. Particularly about this scene which shocked the spectators so much… and which really almost never made it into the movie !

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