 For the sex scene on the stairs, David Cronenberg (qv) was  concerned about the two actors getting hurt on the hard wooden  steps. He asked his stunt man whether or not he had any stunt pads  to soften up the stairs. The stunt man laughed, saying that in the  twenty years he had been working as a stunt man, no director had  ever asked him for stunt pads for a sex scene. Pads were not used  for most of the scene however, and in the shot when Edie is naked on  the bed with bruises visible on her back, make