David Fincher Shares What was Actually in the Box in SE7EN

“What's in the box?!” Well, Se7en director David Fincher has answered that question for real in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly.

In the climactic scene at the end of the movie, Brad Pitt's Detective Mills demands to know what's in a box delivered to him on the orders of Kevin Spacey's villainous John Doe, which Morgan Freeman's Somerset opens.

Now, we never see it, but it's very obvious that this inside the box is the severed head of Gwyneth Paltrow's character Tracy.

It’s been rumored that the box contained a prosthetic of Paltrow's head, or whole body, that was created that was ultimately cut from the movie.

When that was brought up to Fincher in the interview, he responded: "No, it's entirely ridiculous. I think we had a seven- or eight-pound shot bag.

“We had done the research to figure out, if Gwyneth Paltrow's body mass index was X, what portion of that would be attributable to her head. And so we had an idea of what that would weigh, and I think there was a weight in it.

He added: "And we did put a wig in there, so that when Morgan rips the box open if there were some of this tape that was used to seal the box – I think it was a shot bag and a wig, and I think the wig had a little bit of blood in it, so some of the hair would stick together.

“Remember, I think Morgan opened 16 or 17 of those things. But as I always say, you don't need to see what's in the box if you have Morgan Freeman."

No, no you don’t. That look on Freeman’s face is haunting as hell.