In The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Steve Carell says the waxing scene was “100 percent real.”
“We hired a woman who wasn’t a professional waxer. So, if you watch closely there is one close up where you can see blood actually bleeding to the surface. So that was not CGI.”
“And when I pitched it to Judd, I thought, it really should be real. It should be legitimate waxing.”
“I thought, to see them waxing at me in pain would probably be the funniest thing in the scene.”
“Because there’s this guy thing where there is this sadistic nature that men have to see other men in life-threatening pain.”
“It really did hurt. And a lot of the women in the crew were very aware of what would happen and they would say, ‘You sure you don’t want to trim your hair down a bit? It will hurt less.”