El Bakry, the swimming champion, volunteered to do a difficult stunt by pretending to drown in the rough cold sea in place of Poussi, who was the lead role. She also got so caught up in the making of the film that she became an indispensable hand on location. It was meeting with Abdel Aziz Fahmy, the film’s Director of photography, which was to change the course of her life, for he was the one who helped her into the film business by allowing her to work as an assistant in his next film Strangers (Ghorbâ’), directed by Saad Arafa.