updated: 15/06/2005
Ageing porn star Viveca St. John (played by retired porn star Veronica Hart) becomes the corpse-of-the-week when her cat knocks her electric hair curlers into the bath. When Federico gets her on the slab he finds that he has an unusual challenge to make her presentable for the funeral: her breasts are all over the place.
Veronica Hart was keen to explain that those were not her breasts:
By the way, those are not my tits that you see. Its funny, because the part had no nudity, but you’re completely nude, but those are not my breasts. I had to go through four and a half hours of prosthetics every day. There’s a lady [Ve Neill] who’s a three-time Academy Award winner for special effects – I think she did “Tootsie” and “Mrs Doubtfire” and stuff like that – and one of the whole jokes of the thing is that my breasts go wacky; one is up over my shoulder, one is down under my arm, because what happens when you die is, however your body is, that's how it stays, and I guess between the electrocution and the bathtub and the way I was lying, that's the way my tits were. And you can’t make my real tits stay that way, so they knew that had to be a prosthetic, and they wanted the natural breasts to match, so those [are not] my boobs; my boobs were under there. My boobs move a lot more than those do!
MastersFX were responsible for the makeup and the credited special FX makeup team were: Sean Taylor; Ve Neill; Stacy Scofield; David Smith; and Thomas Bacho.