Donner disagreed he wanted to cut in on Thorn well after the discovery, not in the moment. Peck wanted to angrily smash a bunch of stuff during the scene where Robert finds out his wife has died.
Peck and Donner had one argument during filming. “Lee screaming in there is Lee really screaming,” Donner said. To make them angry, handlers placed two baby baboons in the car with the actors and the trainer, thinking the adult baboons would be upset about being separated from the youngsters. When the scene was filmed in the morning, food was placed on and around the car, bringing the hungry primates right over. To get the baboons to run at the vehicle, handlers refrained from feeding them the night before. Apparently sensing Damien's evil, the baboons violently attack the car. There’s a scene in the movie where Damien’s mother takes him on an outing to a safari park. Charlton Heston was considered for Robert Thorn. To make him seem more like the devil’s spawn, his hair was straightened and dyed black. Stephens actually had unruly blonde hair at the time when he was cast as Damien. (Not to mention friendship-ending.) He landed on Damien after Father Damien, who started the first leper colony in the Hawaiian islands. Screenwriter David Seltzer planned to name his antichrist Domlin after the “total obnoxious brat” child of a friend, until his wife convinced him that it would be a horrible thing to do to the kid. The ballsy move is the reason Stephens got the role. Donner invited Stephens to attack him, and attack he did-right in Donner’s privates. When 4-year-old Harvey Stephens auditioned for the part of Damien, director Richard Donner had him act out one of the role’s more demanding moments.
The young actor who played Damien was cast because he attacked the director. It was first called The Antichrist, then later changed to The Birthmark. Read on to find out what the first choice was-plus 12 other freaky facts about this legendary horror flick. Fun fact, though? The now-demonic moniker was actually the screenwriter's second choice. Released nearly 50 years ago, The Omen still holds up as one of the scariest movies of all time-and the reason why the name "Damien" was ruined for children everywhere for decades.
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