An amazing video! The two girls perform their roles very convincingly. I think Alice, with the petit figure, is a better actress, but the curvaceous Koshka is marvelous too.
Please, take the time to watch it through from beginning to end. I, for one, felt a real vicarious bond with these girls watching them twist and squirm on the cross. Lucky them! Able to experience something I can only dream of ever doing!
Alice's crucifixion begins at about 20:30 in the vid. You see her manic struggling in her first minutes on the cross. Look at her face, her eyes. There is fear, hopeless anxiety, and terror there. Of course, as an actress, she knows she's coming off the cross in a few minutes, but for about ten minutes she struggles in what appears to be genuine horror at being freshly crucified, bound to a cross she cannot escape, in escalating pain and agony as she experiences being naked and exposed in such an unnatural position. She's in constant motion hanging from her outstretches arms with her feet secured to the flat of the upright. She hangs down, pushes up, twists right and left -- doing anything to relieve the ever-escalating cramps and burning pain in her muscles.
How much of what Alice is showing us is acting and how much is just her genuine bodily responses to hanging on a cross? Was she directed just to immerse herself in the moment, consider herself really and truly crucified, and let her fear, pain and discomfort dictate how she moves? I don't know. I'd have to experience the cross myself to know. An actress has to really trust the people filming the scene. I wonder what her "out word" was? What did she say when she had enough and could endure no more?
Pay attention to her hands as the vid progresses. Her hands are turning blue from the restricted circulation beyond where the ropes hold her. Again, if she was standing on a stool, she could probably slip her hands out of the ropes, but she's so totally immersed in making her crucifixion look very genuine!
In later scenes the two girls show slower, more deliberate movements on the cross. Was this just acting out showing the effects of exhaustion, or were they really showing the ongoing effects of being crucified.
Two wonderful actresses! Their "death scenes" at the end were very poignant. They had to hang down without moving for a long time. Must have been very painful for them!