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Dave Franco in all probability regrets confessing that he found an enormous pimple on his butt proper earlier than capturing his first-ever intercourse scene within the 2014 movie Neighbors. “I used to be fairly nervous for the scene,” he informed E!’s Chelsea Currently. “After which, in fact, for me, I awoke that morning and I had an enormous pimple on my ass…It sucks, proper?” Franco then made the awkward resolution to ask the make-up artist (who he’d simply met) to cowl it up. He later admitted, “That was not my most interesting hour.”
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Woody Harrelson’s father Charles was successful man for rent accountable for a minimum of a dozen murders together with that of a federal decide. He even claimed, at totally different occasions in his life, that he was accountable for assassinating President John F. Kennedy. At his final trial, the prosecutor mentioned, “Charles Harrelson broken everybody he got here involved with.”
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Julianne Moore was fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me? by director Nicole Holofcener simply six days earlier than filming was scheduled to start out. Moore informed Andy Cohen, “Nicole fired me. So yeah, that is the reality. I feel she did not like what I used to be doing.” She added that it was the primary time she’d been fired since she was let go from a yogurt store at age 15.
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In 2021, Ben Affleck matched with a girl on the unique courting app Raya, however she rapidly unmatched him, assuming his profile was faux. As a substitute of shifting on, Affleck despatched her a private video, saying, “Nivine, why did you unmatch me? It is me!” She leaked the clip on-line, and the web had a subject day with the awkward second. Affleck doubtless (actually?) regretted the entire thing, which was greater than a little bit embarrassing.
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Anne Hathaway received bare on the set of Love & Different Medication earlier than she was informed, “Uh, Anne, you do not truly should be bare proper now…we’re simply rehearsing the scene.” She informed the Commonplace, “I assumed we had been filming, nevertheless it turned out we had been simply rehearsing, and I received unnecessarily bare in entrance of lots of people. However hey, I simply did my job.”
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Mark Wahlberg was a troubled teenager with a violent previous. In 1986, Wahlberg hurled rocks and racial epithets at Black faculty youngsters, and two years later, a 16-year-old Wahlberg was arrested for assaulting a Vietnamese man in a racially motivated assault. The incident left the sufferer completely injured, and Wahlberg was convicted of felony assault (He spent 45 days in jail). He has since apologized publicly and claimed he’s modified.
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Benedict Cumberbatch fell for one of many dumbest pranks ever whereas filming Star Trek Into Darkness. “We had been in a very futuristic laboratory with lasers that had been attempting to separate a goal smaller than a human hair to create a continuing type of power,” Benedict informed the Each day Mirror. “And I used to be like, ‘Wow, that is the true deal, what cannot we contact? What’s secure?’ Enter co-star Simon Pegg, who satisfied him he wanted to put on “neutron cream” — a faux ointment that supposedly protected them from laser publicity. Not realizing it was a joke, Cumberbatch saved making use of the cream, utterly shopping for into it. Fortunately, he lastly figured it out.
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Robert Pattinson actually masturbated onscreen within the 2008 movie Little Ashes when he felt his efforts to simulate the deed weren’t coming off life like sufficient. In a 2013 interview with Germany’s Interview journal, Pattinson defined why he did not simply faux. “Strive it,” he mentioned. “I can let you know proper now, no probability. It simply would not work.”
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Reese Witherspoon was arrested early within the morning on April 19, 2013, after being pulled over by Atlanta police who noticed her automobile driving within the improper lane. The motive force was Witherspoon’s then-husband, movie agent Jim Toth, who was intoxicated. An inebriated Witherspoon received out of the automobile towards the officer’s orders and was put in handcuffs. “Have you learnt my title?” she mentioned, based on the police report. “You are about to search out out who I’m.” Witherspoon was briefly jailed; she pleaded no contest and paid a small tremendous and court docket prices.
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Matthew McConaughey was additionally arrested. At 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 25, 1999, officers responded to a noise grievance at McConaughey’s residence and located him drunk and taking part in the bongos bare. McConaughey struggled with the police once they tried to place him of their automobile, and he was arrested and charged with resisting transportation. He later accepted a plea discount, pleading responsible to a noise violation in trade for dropping the resisting transportation cost. He paid a $50 tremendous.
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Chloë Sevigny carried out actual oral intercourse on costar Vincent Gallo in 2003’s Brown Bunny. That the Academy Award-nominated Sevigny agreed to do the scene was stunning, however she stood by it over a decade later. “I might in all probability nonetheless do it at this time. I imagine in Vincent (Gallo, the director/star) as an artist, and I stand by the movie,” she informed Selection, including, “It was a subversive act. It was a danger.” The danger did not repay. The movie’s debut screening led to large boos.
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Christian Bale threw an enormous tantrum whereas filming 2009’s Terminator Salvation after a crew member by chance walked into Bale’s shot. The star’s expletive-filled tirade lasted a number of minutes, with Bale berating and humiliating the crew member. Sadly for him, somebody recorded the whole factor — and as soon as it leaked on-line, his fame took successful. He later apologized, saying, “I used to be out of order past perception. I make no excuses for it.”
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Ed Norton performed Bruce Banner/Hulk in The Unimaginable Hulk however was dismissed from the position in essentially the most awkward method doable — an announcement launched by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige that learn partially, “We’ve made the choice to not deliver Ed Norton again to painting the title position of Bruce Banner in The Avengers. Our resolution is unquestionably not one based mostly on financial elements, however as an alternative rooted within the want for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our different proficient solid members.” Ouch.
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In 2001, Winona Ryder was caught shoplifting over $5,000 price of designer garments from Saks Fifth Avenue. Safety cameras captured her stuffing luxurious gadgets into her bag, resulting in her arrest and a extremely publicized trial. She was convicted of grand theft and shoplifting, and sentenced to a few years probation, fines and ordered to finish group service. The incident was baffling—why would somebody so well-known and rich danger her profession over stolen merchandise? Ryder later admitted she was combating private points on the time. “Psychologically, I should have been at a spot the place I simply needed to cease.”
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In 1995, Hugh Grant was arrested in Hollywood for receiving oral intercourse in a public place from a intercourse employee named Divine Brown. The British star, who was courting fellow actor Elizabeth Hurley on the time, rapidly launched an announcement: “Final evening I did one thing utterly insane. I’ve damage folks I really like and embarrassed folks I work with. For each issues I’m extra sorry than I can ever presumably say.” Grant later pleaded no contest to the crime and, after paying a tremendous, was positioned on two years’ probation and ordered to finish an AIDS schooling program.
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Matt Damon reprised his Ocean’s 11 character, Linus Caldwell, in Ocean’s 8, the woman-led reboot, however was left on the reducing room flooring. The explanation? His feedback about Harvey Weinstein had been described as “inconsiderate and sexist” in a petition calling for his elimination from the movie. In an interview with ABC Information, Damon condemned Weinstein and abusers, however added that not all misconduct claims “belong in the identical class” and mentioned that there was a “spectrum of conduct.” Damon later apologized. “I actually want I might listened much more earlier than I weighed in on this,” he mentioned.
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Jenna Ortega had COVID-19 whereas filming her now iconic dance at Nevermore’s Rave’N Dance in Wednesday. Ortega informed NME it was terrible to movie due to how she felt, including, “I awoke and — it’s bizarre, I by no means get sick, and once I do, it’s not very unhealthy — I had the physique aches. I felt like I’d been hit by a automobile and that a little bit goblin had been let free in my throat and was scratching the partitions of my esophagus.” Nonetheless, Ortega cast on, performing the dance which she choreographed herself. “They had been giving me drugs between takes as a result of we had been ready on the constructive end result,” Jenna added. “I requested to redo it, however we didn’t have time. I feel I in all probability might have carried out it a bit higher.”
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Will Smith would in all probability favor it if folks did not know that he turned down Keanu Reeves’s position as Neo within the landmark movie The Matrix. A pitch assembly with the Wachowskis (the filmmakers) had left Smith a little bit confused by the idea, and he wasn’t certain of the movie’s business prospects, so he handed. Making issues even worse is that the film Smith selected to movie as an alternative — Wild Wild West — an notorious field workplace bomb.
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Each Anne Rice and co-star Brad Pitt “hated” Tom Cruise and did not need him to play the lead position of Lestat within the 1994 movie adaptation of Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. In actual fact, Pitt solely signed on to the undertaking as a result of he thought he’d be performing reverse Daniel Day-Lewis as Lestat. “Oh, they hated him,” director Neil Jordan commented later with amusing. “Anne Rice discovered it perplexing. As did Brad Pitt, truly.” However Jordan stood by the casting of Cruise, saying, “I’ve all the time thought he’s an important actor.”
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As a younger actor, Ben Stiller yelled, “Lower!” after screwing up a line on the set of Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Solar. If you do not know, there’s in all probability no greater fake pas you possibly can commit on a film set than yelling “Lower!” when you’re not the director. Stiller informed USA Right now that after that, “I hear this enormous silence. Steven Spielberg is in one other constructing watching on the screens, and he yells: `What occurred?’ I am like, ‘I simply yelled minimize as a result of I screwed up,’ and he is yelling, ‘No, no, you by no means minimize!’ I actually turned white and shrunk as a result of my hero and idol, Steven Spielberg, is yelling at me.” Stiller says he has since laughed concerning the second with Spielberg (who, in fact, remembers it).
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Talking of Spielberg, he would in all probability favor that followers do not know he and screenwriter Melissa Mathison briefly developed what seems like a really underwhelming sequel to E.T. the Further-Terrestrial. They wrote a nine-page movie remedy entitled E.T. 2: Nocturnal Fears, the place Elliot, Gertie, and Michael cross paths with evil carnivorous aliens who’ve come to Earth in search of E.T. The evil aliens maintain the children captive on their ship, the place they interrogate them about E.T.’s whereabouts — and practically kill Elliot with their razor-sharp enamel! In the end, E.T. returns to Earth to avoid wasting the children and banish the aliens. Hmmm. (You possibly can learn the remedy right here.)
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Invoice Murray was changed by Bernie Mac within the Charlie’s Angels sequel Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Why? Director McG claimed that Murray headbutted him, describing it as “sq. within the head. An inch decrease and my nostril would have been obliterated.” Murray has vehemently denied this, saying, “That’s full crap! I don’t know why he made that story up. He has a really lively creativeness.” Murray additionally allegedly informed Liu that she couldn’t act, and she or he allegedly responded by throwing punches. Murray, when requested about this, mentioned, “I’ll dismiss you utterly in case you are unprofessional and dealing with me. … When our relationship is skilled and also you’re not getting that carried out, neglect it.”
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Johnny Depp and Mark Wahlberg each turned down the prospect to affix George Clooney within the solid of 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven. Talking on the 2023 TCM Traditional Movie Competition, Clooney mentioned, “Some very well-known folks informed us to fuck proper off. Mark Wahlberg, Johnny Depp. There have been others. They remorse it now.”
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Martin Brief did not notice his penis was hanging out of his boxer shorts whereas in hair and make-up for the 1994 cult comedy Clifford. Within the movie, the then-44-year-old comic performed a 10-year-old boy (with no CGI or something), so to make him seem extra child-like, he would get his legs waxed by the hair and make-up division. At some point, he was sporting boxer shorts whereas getting his legs shaved and did not notice that his penis was hanging out of the facet…the entire time. Yikes.
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Alec Baldwin originated the position of Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Pink October however was changed by Harrison Ford within the subsequent Jack Ryan movie, Patriot Video games. For those who ask Baldwin why, he’ll say it is as a result of Ford screwed him. In his guide Nonetheless, Baldwin claims he was negotiating with the studio for the sequel when Ford approached them about taking on the position. Baldwin goes on to allege that The Hunt for Pink October director John McTiernan requested Ford if he felt unhealthy for snatching the position from Baldwin, and Ford replied, “Fuck him.” Baldwin later described Ford as “a little bit man, quick, scrawny, and wiry, whose delicate voice sounds as if it is coming from behind a door.”
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Brad Pitt received Courtney Love fired from the position of Marla Singer within the 1999 traditional Combat Membership as a result of she would not give him permission to play her late husband and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a film. At the least that is what Love claims, saying she was so upset by the thought of Pitt taking part in her late husband that she “went nuclear.” Deadline threw water on this declare, although, saying {that a} supply near the movie informed them, “Love auditioned for a job in Combat Membership, a job she was by no means supplied at any level. You can’t be fired for a job you did not get. It’s normal data that roles will not be determined by different actors however by the director.”
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LL Cool J and Jamie Foxx had such an enormous battle on the set of Oliver Stone’s 1999 soccer drama Any Given Sunday that the police had been known as. LL and Foxx had been filming a scene the place their soccer participant characters had been arguing on the sidelines subsequent to their coach, performed by Al Pacino. The scripted argument turned actual when Foxx slapped LL, and the legendary Pacino tried in useless to interrupt up the battle. Cinematographer Sal Totino recounted that LL threw a “fucking large punch that hits Jamie within the face. Jamie goes again and hits the push bar on the techno-crane. I assumed he snapped his neck. Jamie pops up, full-blown battle happening. Punches are flying all over the place.” Issues received so unhealthy that Foxx known as the police, although no expenses had been pressed.
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Bruce Willis turned down the lead position of Sam Wheat within the international smash and Academy Award Finest Image nominee Ghost reverse his then-wife, Demi Moore. The half went to Patrick Swayze, who ended up canoodling with Willis’s spouse onscreen in a career-defining hit. “I want I had not turned down the half that Patrick Swayze finally performed in Ghost,” Willis informed Ain’t It Cool Information. “I merely couldn’t see how a romance between a ghost and a residing individual would work.”
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And lastly, author/director James Cameron would positively favor of us did not know the unique ending of his traditional movie Titanic — how can I put this properly? — was so unhealthy it will have ruined the entire film if it weren’t modified. Within the unique ending, as an alternative of getting the older Rose toss the “Coronary heart of the Ocean” diamond into the water in a non-public second, Brock (Invoice Paxton) and Lizzy (Suzy Amis) come working and there is an motion film-ish standoff over the necklace, the place Rose yells, “Do not come any nearer!” and juts the diamond over the water, including, “I will drop it!” When she lastly does drop it into the ocean, different characters yell, “Jesus, no!” and “That actually sucks, woman!”