The 27-year-old star plays Janet Leigh, the star of &#39;Psycho&#39; in &#39;Hitchcock&#39;, being directed by Sacha Gervasi. &quot;We only had the luxury to shoot the scene for a day, and everybody was feeling very nervous because it involved water and nobody wants the actor to get wet. <img alt="Scarlett Johansson" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/nov/Scarlett_1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 368px; " /> Scarlett Johansson. Pic/Santa Banta They were concerned with modesty and all these things - but I don&#39;t care about any of that stuff and Janet Leigh never did either,&quot; she said. The Black Widow of &quot;The Avengers&quot; went on revealing that the most terrifying part was when Anthony Hopkins&#39;s Alfred Hitchcock literally swung a knife at her while she was in the shower. &quot;You have got to be brave, get into the shower, and face Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock jabbing you in the face with a 12-inch kitchen knife. As much as Anthony Hopkins is a pussycat, he&#39;s terrifying. &quot;Maybe I watched &#39;Silence of the Lambs&#39; too many times when I was a kid. Maybe I was having some flashbacks. So I didn&#39;t need too much preparation for the scene,&quot; she added. The film promises to tell the untold story of Hitchcock&#39;s struggles during the making of the 1960 seminal film &quot;Psycho&quot;. The iconic director, whose film &#39;Vertigo&#39; toppled &#39;Citizen Kane&#39; to become the greatest film of all time by British Film Institute&#39;s Sight and Sound, has been generating a lot of interest in Hollywood recently. Though &#39;Hitchcock&#39; will delve into the positive side of the director another TV movie &#39;The Birds&#39;, starring Sienna Miller, describes how he ruined the career of &#39;The Birds&#39; star Tippi Hedren for refusing his sexual advances.u00a0

Scarlett Johansson, who stars in a biopic of Alfred Hitchcock, found recreating the shower scene from 'Psycho' the most difficult.

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