It’s hilarious until it happens to you.
But Santoro said there was an unexpected amount of pain involved in preparing for the role.
So like hairless, not just the head, whole body," Santoro explained.
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“I learned so many lessons, Jess.
First of all, tremendous respect for people that wax their bodies.”
“I had to choose the temperature of the wax,” he continued.
“I think they’re different.
But anyway, I’m like, ‘Okay, hot.’
And I’ll never forget that.
It reminded me of that film,The 40-Year-Old Virgin,Steve Carrell, amazing.
And I’m like, ‘No, no, no.
Stop, stop.'”
Santoro recalled that his reaction to the sensation was akin to Carell’s infamous proclamation of"Kelly Clarkson!
“in the movie, a sudden and visceral response to the pain of the experience.
Ultimately, he had to give up on the waxing.
“She got a towel,” he added.
“She rolled the towel and goes like, ‘Bite.’
She [wanted me] biting a towel.
Then she did halfway from my torso.
And I said, ‘It’s enough.
Thank you very much.
So I’m gonna use the razor.’
And that was it.
So I gave up on it, because it was the whole body.
I’m not a very hairy guy, but I have hair.
And it was very painful.”
“I worked like three weeks in a row,” he concluded.
“So I didn’t have to be doing that for a long time.
Five hours and then another hour and a half to remove everything before I go to bed.
