"I just watch stuff, like Reservoir Dogs , I watched that quite a bit," the actor told Elle . "My prep for the torture scenes is all in the mind. Mental. Mental stuff going on in my head. So my preparation has more to do with what's going on in there. So I just thought of the most painful things I could think of, and tried to exaggerate it, but it was hard. Really hard." We definitely see the fruits of Allen's preparation — Allen's torture scenes were like nothing we've ever seen on television. We still tremble whenever we remember that genital flaying scene.