Phillips didn’t want to use a fake hypodermic needle. She wanted the opening, extreme close-up shot to be “real”. Her actress playing the “pregnant lady” receiving the vaccination (Rachel Millar) volunteered to take the real shot, but the actress was actually pregnant and Phillips didn’t want to take any risks there. Our Make-Up designer Sarah Elford also volunteered. But Phillips’s philosophy was one of “don’t ask someone to do something you wouldn’t do yourself”. So needle-