Kim Hunter
At one of the first test screenings of "Planet of the Apes" (1968), a woman walked up to Charlton Heston and asked him how he was. Heston had no clue who she was until she revealed that she was Kim Hunter. He simply hadn't recognized her as he hadn't seen her outside of her ape makeup.
Hunter reportedly found the facial ape prosthetics so claustrophobic that she took a Valium each morning while being made up as Zira. After a while she didn't think she needed the pills anymore, and went one day without taking one. After the morning's makeup session she thought she did fine, but her makeup artist threatened to find someone to replace him if she didn't start taking them again, as apparently he became exhausted from "wrestling" with her the whole time.
On the set, it became a regular event for the actors in their ape makeup to be given a banana as part of their lunch. Hunter grew rather tired of this prank in particular, which was the source of an in-joke in the third movie "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" (1971).
Turning down the part of Zira was one of Ingrid Bergman's greatest regrets. Much surprised at how well the finished film turned out, she later confided to her daughter Isabella Rossellini that in hindsight the film would have been an ideal opportunity for her to "disregard her regal bearing." She also regretted missing the opportunity of working with Charlton Heston.
Happy Birthday, Kim Hunter!
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