At one point her skin was shown shedding, much like a real snake's.

Not only is he disgusting to look at, he's nasty to the core, a real snake.

"Like real snakes, you never see them coming," she said.

There was a real snake somewhere in the blackness.

In early productions, people tried to use real snakes, but it didn't work.

When you have real snakes brought on the stage at the end of the play it just blows the play to pieces.

For the final part of the sequence, a real snake was filmed on a miniature set.

"While you're busy watching for me to strike, there's a real snake out there."

But he doesn't sleep after eating, like a real snake, it seems.

If that's so, that paradise Raoul kept talking about may have some real snakes in it.