Susan Sarandon Battled Pneumonia Throughout Rocky Horror Picture Show Shoot

The actress was appalled by the conditions of Bray Studios and the derelict Oakley Court manor, where she shot the low-budget movie over 40 years ago. She had no idea the film would become a cult hit and spent much of the project shuddering with cold.

"It was a difficult shoot, just in terms of the amount of time that there was and the circumstances," she tells Entertainment Weekly. "Everybody was working under the gun. In a way, I was the only one that had done a film. Everyone was exhausted and working long hours."

But the surroundings really left her feeling low, especially when it came to filming Rocky Horror's swimming pool scene: "There was no ceiling. It was raining right into the building.

"I finally had to ask for something, and they got a space heater and put kind of screens around it. And then one day it went up in flames, luckily with nobody in it.

"I had pneumonia for a while and the doctor told me, 'You really shouldn't work, but if they can put you in a hot tub in between scenes or something that would be helpful'. I was like, 'They don't even have hot rooms, let alone a hot tub'."