“Martin Ransohoff had to sell Roman on the idea of even considering me for the film.”

— Sharon Tate

On how she received the part of Sarah Shagal in Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers, in Screen Stories magazine (1967)
Context: Martin Ransohoff had to sell Roman on the idea of even considering me for the film. He arranged for the two of us to have dinner. Roman never said a word to me, we just sat there and ate and he just looked at me. Then we had a second dinner meeting and the same thing happened. Later he took me to his apartment. He lit some candles and then excused himself and left me standing there alone. A short while later he came storming into the room like a madman and he was wearing a Frankenstein mask. I let out a blood-curdling scream and while I was still crying from the scare, he was calling Ransohoff to tell him that the part in the film was mine.

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