How Lewis Pullman Came Back to Earth

Lewis Pullman was not going to be the one to fuck this up. He knew how much was riding on this scene—how much of the indie film’s approximately $10 million budget had been devoted to setting a massive wooden building on fire. But as he knelt in the mud on the Budapest set of The Testament of Ann Lee, pretending to sustain a brutal lashing as flames erupted behind him, his back pad slipped out of place.