The director has approved the set and the lighting and says "act!"
Lucy: "Hey, how am supposed to act here? You haven not told me even a little bit about what's going to happen in this scene. Should I cry? You should know that I can't produce tears on command like some other actresses. Or should I be angry at this guy? I'm very good at angry. Don't know if I can pretend to be in pain very well though. Will there be a prince or some other hero who rescues me from this torturer guy? I guess there will be. And then I, the captured Celtic princess, will fall in love and gratefully have sex with my rescuer. Yes, that's what must happen. But only if the scene is tasteful, OK? And I won't do anything anyway before I get my advance money, see? No money, no more scenes, get it?"
The director: "Don't worry Lucy. You will be fine, just be yourself, improvise and react to what will happen. I can guarantee that your feelings will look very sincere on tape. And don't worry about the money either. You will get what you deserve very soon, I promise."
I have to clarify that both renders and texts are from the user Zuzuzuzu
"Ooo, that's quite a good looking prop you got there, looks almost like a real branding iron. I can even feel a little bit of heat coming off it."
But of course, the branding iron is not a prop. It's very real, as Lucy discovers painfully.
And as the director promised, Lucy has no problems displaying the correct feelings for the scene anymore.
Lucy yells at the top of her lungs: "Stop, pleeease, this hurts so much. Owwwww. Nooo. Ahhhhhhh."
After the third branding her mind has almost stopped working.
The torturer tells Lucy what's going to happen next: "You see this nice little pin? Now I am going to stick a lot of those into your body. If I were a doctor I would tell you that this won't hurt at all. But that would be a lie."
"By the way we have made them intentionally dull, so the future viewers of this movie get some really realistic screaming from you."
And the soundtrack for the last and the next two pics: "Ahhhh, no stop, please, you can't oowwww, shit, yowl, (whimpering and sniffling), no, aaugh..."