Here are a few examples of actors who’ve suffered through some high-profile film roles…
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I slept in a goddamnhollowed-out horse for you people!
Ah yes, the hollowed-out horse.
The following is but a tiny sample of our favorite stories from film history.
Unfortunately for the movies actors, the low budget also made for a thoroughly unpleasant four-week shoot.
Marilyn Burns, the actor who plays luckless survivor Sally, had it even worse.
When asked by theTerror Trapwhether she remembered being cut, Burns replied, Oh hey!
Like it was yesterday.
I can see the blood spouting out of my index finger.
That was a bitch.
I mean, it hurt!
Where was my head?
What were we thinking?
Clearly, Blair wasnt afraid of heights.
Why do you do these things to yourself?
On arriving on the set one Monday morning, Hedren discovered that real bird were being brought in instead.
Imagine having your eyes glued shut for 14 hours a day, Foxx told theNew York Timesin 2004.
Thats your jail sentence.
Well, Sylvester Stallone told Dolph Lundgren to do the same thing and just about lived to regret it.
For the first 45 seconds, really give a shot to knock me out.
I mean, go for it.
Lundgren duly obliged, and punched Stallone square in the chest.
Woah, Stallone said.
Cut, cut, cut.
I am directing so I can do that.
I thought I had a car accident.
It was only when Stallone showed the company some footage from the fight that they finally relented.
Filming onRocky IVeventually continued, though this time Stallone wisely let Lundgren pull his punches.
To get an idea of how hardThe Passion Of The Christwas on Jim Caviezel, consider this.
The sequence where Jesus is nailed to a cross and hoisted skyward took about five weeks to film.
Its like going to the Grand Canyon and sticking a cross at the edge of it.
And we havent even got to the part where Caviezel was struck by lightning.
I was lit up like a Christmas tree, Caviezel said later.
What they saw was fire coming out of the right and left side of my head.
Illumination around the whole body.
Mel Gibson reportedly screamed, What the heck happened to his hair?
