They were in extreme exhaustion and hunger, and their unearthly performance (partly because an actor fell from hunger and audience mistook it as acting) won great popularity from the audience.
極限の疲労と空腹での鬼気迫る演技が（空腹で倒れたのを、何も知らない観客が演技だと勘違いしたのもあって）観客に大受けした。