 An exhausted Meryl Streep (qv) balked when director  Curtis Hanson (I) (qv) asked her to shoot one more scene before  filming finished for the end of the day, however, she decided to  attempt it. Swept off the raft, she was in real danger of drowning  before she was rescued. Returning upriver, she told a pale and  shaking Hanson that "in the future, when I say I cant do something,  I think we should believe me." Hanson hastily agreed.