Adam Robitel‘s sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is now playing exclusively in theaters, with the film tossing the winners of previous Minos Corporation escape rooms right back into the fire. Those winners include Zoey Davis (Taylor Russell) and Ben Miller (Logan Miller) from the first film, along with Holland Roden‘s new character Rachel Ellis.
Both Holland Roden and Logan Miller were interviewed by Bloody Disgusting’s The Boo Crew Podcast last week, and Miller shared details on a scene entirely cut from the sequel.
As Miller explains, an alternate escape room was left on the cutting room floor!
“As an actor, you’re always disappointed when you see things that ended up on the cutting room floor, but there was an entire room that I was in, a solo room, that ended up getting completely cut out of the movie, and replaced with something else,” Miller explains to BD’s The Boo Crew. I won’t give it away, but… I was in a sauna, and I was burning to death.”
He continues, “There was an element of the story that wasn’t working, and that’s what’s so great about the attention to detail that we try to get. We try to make sure the scenes are working so well. It might not be as good as we can make it. What it was replaced with was something so much more insane… it was me drowning in this room.”
“I guess burning to death is not as fun as drowning, visually,” Miller adds.
You can listen to The Boo Crew’s full chat with Holland Roden & Logan Miller below.
Ben Miller (Logan Miller) in Columbia Pictures’ ESCAPE ROOM: TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS’