LC: You often have props and elaborate contraptions on set. Has anything ever gone dreadfully wrong?

RA: There's been a lot of passing out on the part of models. The most memorable was when I was doing a shoot in which the model had to fly so there was a whole rig she had to be on. The model was very young, like fifteen. She was extremely excited that she was going to fly.

LC: A little too excited?

RA: Yes. She was so pretty, so long, so skinny but the person setting up the rig and fitting the clothes for her required that all the wires went through the clothing in a certain way. All this took forever and she had been there since 8:00 in the morning but she didn't actually take flight until 6:00 in the afternoon, so all day she had this expectation. So finally, it's all set and she takes off and she's in the right moment and she looks so beautiful. I took one roll and sensed she was not hearing me so I asked if she was okay but realized she was fainting. I asked the rig master to bring her down and as she touched the ground she collapsed in the most beautiful manner. Also, she was very white to begin with, but her skin became the whitest I've ever seen.

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