According to Terminal List’s Jeanne Tripplehorn. It was a “extraordinary” experience to make Waterworld,

Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn, who just appeared on The Terminal List, talks about the “physically grueling” experience of filming Waterworld in 1995. For Waterworld, Jeanne Tripplehorn went above and above.

While working on Waterworld, I thought it was an exceptional film since we didn’t use a lot of special effects,” she says PEOPLE about the film, which was directed by Kevin Reynolds. “Some of the special effects, like the baked potato we’re floating around in, are just plain awful. But I knew it would be the last of its kind. Cecil B. DeMille-like in the fact that there were no computer-generated characters. Those were the ones we had.”

By the time the crew arrived on the location they had to get off the first boat, go on a second boat, get on another boat, then get on the camera boat, and finally get on the set.