Actress from the iconic opening scene of Jaws

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Actress Susan Blackline on her famous scene with the shark from the opening of the movie Jaws.

Susan Backlinie was obviously not dragged to a watery death by a killer shark, the reaction you see on her face as she’s pulled under was real. After a few takes, Steven Spielberg decided Susan’s reaction wasn’t realistic enough, so he instructed the diver beneath the water not to tell the actress when he was going to pull her under – that desperate gulp for air is real, and it sells Chrissie’s death perfectly. It’s the reason so many of us still don’t think it’s safe to go back into the water.

On June 20, 1975, Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters. The story of a great white shark that terrorizes a New England resort town became an instant blockbuster and the highest-grossing film in movie history until it was bested by 1977’s Star Wars. Jaws was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Picture category and took home three Oscars, for Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and Best Sound. The film, a breakthrough for director Spielberg, then 27 years old, spawned several sequels.

The film starred Roy Scheider as principled police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as a marine biologist named Matt Hooper and Robert Shaw as a grizzled fisherman called Quint. It was set in the fictional beach town of Amity, and based on a best-selling novel, released in 1973, by Peter Benchley. Subsequent water-themed Benchley bestsellers also made it to the big screen, including The Deep.

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