Halfway through the film
Dalila Di Lazzaro stopped shooting because she didn't want to shoot a scene in the shower without her panties on. "There was a reason", Di Lazzaro explains, "but it was personal and I didn't want to tell anyone about it: I had shaved my pubes because of a bet I had lost with my partner. Everyone was curious and Comencini had the production company call my agent: while waiting for them to come to an agreement, I was stuck in a bathrobe in the small bathroom where we were to shoot the scene. While
Ugo Tognazzi was on a break, my refusal reached his ears and, curious as he was, he came to the set with the excuse of convincing me, but in reality to find out the reason for my rejection. And the more I kept silent, the more he put me under pressure: 'Are you a man? What are you hiding there?' he asked in his unmistakable tone of voice.
He was nice, but I stubbornly didn't tell him my secret. 'Are you part of a religious sect?' he insisted. He thought, by making me laugh, that he could solve the riddle. But I held firm. In the end we came to a compromise: I would have shot the scene in the shower showing the camera my back, but I had to take off my briefs. Tognazzi sent the seamstress to spy on me, so my secret was revealed. In the evening he knocked on my room: 'Who is that asshole who makes you shave yourself? There is nothing more beautiful than a woman with her pubic hair,' he said. 'Hair has its charm. I guess you haven't met a real man yet.' 'I lost a bet," I replied. 'Yes, good, tell it to someone else. Too bad you're not one of the hens in my henhouse!' and walked away," Di Lazzaro recalls.
