Steven Spielberg says he used to be unwary on the set of jaws on the tour and cry of the Universal Studios Tour and cry

When you think JawThink of the great strange film that made history and changed Holywood. The first summer success. The origin of the film for modern events. But behind legend there is a story of stress, anxiety and a young director almost broken by experience.

Second Steven Spielberg He had to do with that weight in a very unexpected place, silently hiding on the set of the Jews Studio tour race from Universal Studios.

In the next documentary Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Storywhich hits Hulu and Disney+ next month, Spielberg opens on the persistent emotional toll that the film has left on him.

One moment in particular it is when Universal sent the original Orca boat from the Martha vineyard on the rear for the attraction of the studio tour, Spielberg started making normal solo visits. Not for nostalgia or photographic operations. But for healing. He said:

“When they brought one of the boats to Martha’s Vineyard and shipped the boat, the Orca, on the universal retunery and put it in the water right next to the ride of the jaws.

“I went up to the electric trolley, without telling anyone, and I made myself sneaked behind the trams so that no one could see me and I simply made myself sneak into the boat and sat in the cabin in that small hairstyle and I sat down there and sometimes I was crying.”

It might seem strange from man whose film has changed the industry forever. But Jaw He was an exhausting ordeal to be taken. Make failures of mechanical sharks, a ruthless shot and an excessive nightmare and on the patterns that the young director feared for his career. He left scars that did not disappear easily. He added:

“I had nothing to cry for. The film was this phenomenon, and I am sitting here to pour tears because I am unable to give in to the experience. The boat helped me to start forgetting. That orca was my therapeutic partner for several years after the jaws have come out.”

It is a very personal revelation, which reformulates the way we see not only creation JawBut Spielberg himself. He did not crogue in the glory of a success. He was still emotionally linked to a project that almost broke him. For a while, the Orca was not a stage object or set. It was a quiet place where he could elaborate everything.

Unfortunately, the original Orca did not last forever. The elements finally wore it and had to be removed from the backlot. A replica is located in its place today, but now, knowing what the original boat for Spielberg meant, it seems that that point on the tour contains a different type of history.

So the next time you are on the Tour of the Universal Studios tram, which goes beyond the false shark and the docks of Amity Island, thinks of the director who sits quietly there, outside the sight. Not like a legend, just like a boy who tries to let something go that he never completely left.