28 Years Later’s alpha zombie was legally required to wear a prosthetic penis
Nudity laws kept the alpha's hog from going hog wild during the production of 28 Years Later.
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More than the zombie attacks, meditations on life and death, and the film’s use of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Boots,” 28 Years Later has audiences going hog wild for a big old hog. The film’s central villain—aside from man himself, of course—Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry), the alpha infected, lives up to his namesake by running nude throughout the film with a monster baby’s arm dangling between his legs. Yes, the chief of the infected has a huge, intimidating penis, but thanks to British child endangerment laws, it was created through movie magic rather than the blessings of the good lord above. Speaking to Variety, Lewis-Parry cleared up what the A.V. Club dubbed 28 Years Later’s “dicks-course” by clarifying that his piece was artificial for the sake of the film’s young star, Alfie Williams, who was only 13 when the film was made. It protected him and, by proxy, everyone else in Lewis-Parry’s orbit.
