Isabel Pisano had some problems with the scene in which Àngel Jové's character shaves her pubis. Pisano was warned about the sequence and that Bigas Luna would not accept any double, and the actress simply demanded that only the cameraman and the director be present at that moment. "I had to explain to her," said Bigas, "that a good part of the crew, especially the electricians, had been hired for four bucks and that if they had accepted it was because they knew that this sequence existed. She understood it perfectly and didn't put any problem."
The relationship between Isabel Pisano and María Martín was bad to the point that Bigas Luna planned the shooting so that they would not coincide on the set. "They only coincided to take the photo of the poster. We took it on a sofa in my house."
As Isabel Pisano amply explains in her book 'Sombras de Bigas, Luces de Luna', it seems that, in order to attract that kind of attention, the director had to push her to the limits in the role of a street prostitute who is abducted, tortured and eventually killed by a sadistic loner. Yet, despite the commercial and critical success of the film, and of her performance in particular, she was not called for the next film. She goes on to explain how she became typecast as a low-life as a result of her role in the film and was never offered a decent role since then, despite doing everything she could to disassociate herself from the film and the director for years, ultimately being unable to resurrect her short acting career.
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