[post_page_title]The Birds[/post_page_title]
It seems pretty cruel to expose your star actress to one of the things that scares her most, but that’s just what Alfred Hitchcock did when he made horror film The Birds.
Tippi Hedren, who played the main character, really didn’t like birds. So Hitchcock told her that they would use mechanical birds during filming. That turned out to be a lie. In a lot of scenes, real live birds were flying at her face, as she unhappily tried to escape and swat them away.
