The Glamourous Life of An Actor -OR- Horrible Questions I Can't Help But Ask

Ummmm-kay:

Today's question does have to do with Legend of the Seeker...of course; and this horrible thought came to me watching episode 3, Bounty.

The scene:

 [The bottom version is how it appeared in-episode; but I'm giving you the flipped version on top so you can see their faces without craning your neck.  Aren't I nice?]

The very first question is for Bridget:  And it's embarrassing.  For silly and pointless reasons [as if a Google search can't see around shade-boxed text when its 'bots crawl the web, and drag it out for God and everybody to see in bold, jumbo font (if it wanted to) anyway]-- I am going to shade-box it, like folks do for spoilers.


1.  Bridget--in Bounty, where you guys have to hang upside down because the three of you get caught in a rope trap, how the heck did you keep the cleavage in???  My first thoughts were of this, being a girl, and eminently aware of the laws of physics of such matters.  Wonderbra nuthin'--that would not (alone) do the trick....  I was trying to imagine myself in that position and had horrible visions of Super Glue; barbed-wire edged bras with teeth that bit into...you know...; and/or, male-kind's favorite solution to any trouble that ails you:

Duct tape.

{I am going to have some keen nightmares tonight; I can already *cringe* feel it.}

2.  Trying to ponder this, my second thought and wonderment was:  Hey, wait a minute...wouldn't Kahlan's dress be falling over her head, too?
But then I thought:  Okay, it is within the realm of reasonability to figure that the rope trap caught the bottom hem of Kahlan's woods-dress, and neatly snugged it around her ankles.  Okay: given.


3.  But THEN, I noticed everyone's hands [and arms]...when you're hanging upside-down, your arms are going to naturally just flail down below you (over your head, that is)...not stay clinging to your side.  Everybody's arms were nearly stock-straight at their sides.

I had a moment of actually wondering if you all weren't really hanging upside down, but that it was a camera trick.  [Because the producers couldn't really be that cruel, could they??  I mean, your ankles & legs/feet would really start to hurt (no matter what you were hanging from)...and...you'd kind of start feeling like you wanted to pass out, after a time, wouldn't you?...and...the boobages problem!?!]

But everyone's hair was hanging down, per gravity....

And finally, I saw a clip online of cast interviews, where it shows the three of you in that very scene...and we get to see that you all are, in fact, hanging upside down.  Very much so.  [Poor guys!]  [Or, wait a moment...they didn't have stunt doubles do that, did they?  It is very hard to tell exactly who you're looking at, recognizing them & all, when they're hanging upside-down....  Hmmm.]

So, if there's a question here in #3 at all, I guess, it's:

a) what in the world reason for the direction to hold your arms at your sides, pointing toward your feet, and not letting them fall over your heads (per gravity)?

b) were those stunt doubles, being filmed, that I saw?
Edit:  Okay, I got a closer look and can see that it was indeed the three of you [re-posted with pic, above].


Final commentary:

That has to be one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen!  I hope you guys can take heart [if those weren't your stunt doubles] that it was well worth it.  Classic!  :D