Before actors get down to chucking up, a team's got to stir together some sludgy gruel to play the part of hurled barf. On Entertainment Weekly, special effects coordinator Danny Cangemi discusses all the various ingredients used to simulate partially digested chow, some of which we've already mentioned. Often, a production team uses real food products, which presumably can help sell the whole thing while also not being too disgusting for the actor and all parties involved (despite looking rather disgusting). A good, gooey go-to, as Cangemi explained, is milk, oatmeal, spaghetti, and chopped hard-boiled eggs.
However, Cangemi said that it's not possible to use actual food in certain cases, like during a vomit-spewing scene in a cockpit for 2015's "The Brink." The vomit would have gotten stuck on equipment. "The last thing you'd want to have is something in a nook or a cranny that you couldn't get to, like behind the dashboard or something," Cangemi said. "The next day you'd have this rancid smell."
So, Cangemi's team turned to Blaire Adhesives, a company that specializes in fake slime, blood, oil, and more, all of which are safe for contact with human skin and rinses off. Cangemi added to the company's product some yellow sponges cut up small enough to look like hard-boiled egg chunks. Then they added green sponges that looked like peas, perhaps an homage to Linda Blair's split-pea soup throat spout from 1973's "The Exorcist," as Do You Remember? describes.
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