One day during the production of 'Sophie's Choice', Meryl Streep was required to shoot the pivotal scene in which her character, standing with her young son and daughter in a "selection line" in a Nazi concentration camp, is forced by a German guard to choose one of the children to be sent for extermination.
As the scene came to an end Streep, who later called it the most emotionally grueling of her career, was surprised that Pakula, for whom she felt a great emotional kinship, had not called 'cut.' "I thought, 'My God, he's overwhelmed...'"
Streep promptly looked over to where the director
was sitting with his cinematographer - and was shocked to find that both men,
with their heads tilted back, had fallen sound asleep!
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