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12. The lake was extremely cold

When Baby and Johnny were practicing their lift in the lake, the lake was only 40 degrees. They couldn’t even do any close up shots because the actors’ lips were blue. Patrick elaborated on shooting the scene and it sounded pretty terrible. “It was horrifyingly, hypothermically cold in that lake, and we filmed that scene over and over. And despite the fact that Jennifer was very light, when you’re lifting someone in water, take after take after take, even the skinniest little girl can feel like 500 pounds. By the time we finished shooting that sequence, my arms were like rubber, my body temperature had plunged.”

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