One day Polley was shooting a scene in a rowboat with a horse aboard. On cue, the animal leaped into the water and kicked up an explosive from the bottom of the pool. ''Terry kept saying to me, 'Lean over the edge a bit more, a bit more,' and then the explosive surfaced and went off in my face,'' she remembers. ''I had to go to the hospital because I lost my hearing for two days.''
But that wasn't the end of it. ''There were explosives all the time, every single day, and even when a car door slams today I'll have a bit of a shellshock reaction,'' says the Toronto native, who in ''Guinevere'' plays an insecure college grad having an affair with a much older photographer. ''I vowed at age 8 never to do another movie with special effects in it.'' Guess you'll have to find another leading lady, Jean Claude.
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