Recently, I rounded up somesuper gross behind-the-scenes facts about TV shows.
Here are 17 gross behind-the-scenes facts about popular movies:
Warning: Spoilers ahead!
1.For the scene inThe Paperboywhere Jack gets stung by a jellyfish,Nicole Kidmanpeed onZac Efronfor real.
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It was what it was.
If you dont put it in the movie, it’s crucial that you man up.'
And I was like, ‘All right, I aint gonna pussy out!
It was an experience.
That was my attempt at method acting."
He wore it for 12 hours a day in heat that reached over 100 degrees.
In a 2000documentary, Gunnar said, “I was the smelliest element of the set.”
Neither John nor Marilyn knew the truth about the scene for years afterwards.
She almost injected it in her own leg when she missed and stabbed herself on accident.
But I believe that the dire circumstances added to the film.
None of us were happy.
We were miserable."
It’s a health risk.
I won’t allow Marty to work here."
Gray also heard another prop department member say, “Wait till he hears about the dead bodies.”
Gray Frederickson told theIndependent, “The police showed up on our set and took all of our passports.
They didn’t know we hadn’t killed these people because the bodies were unidentified.
I was pretty damn worried for a few days.
But they got to the truth and put the guy in jail.”
Soldiers arrived to take the bodies away.
For the scene, they ended up using living extras hanging from trees.
She toldVanity Fair, “I always assumed that the skeletons were made by the prop department.
He said, Oh, we didntmakethem, those were real.
I said, What?
He said, Yeah, they wererealskeletons.’
I dont knowwherethey were bought from, but that really grossed me out.
Im glad I didnt know that then, because I wouldve really been screaming a lot for real.”
The glass “disintegrated into his hand,” yet he continued without flinching.
That’s the take that made it into the movie.
Leo told theHollywood Reporter, “Maybe they thought it was done with special effects.
I wanted to keep going.
We did it bloodied and bandaged for the rest of the movie.
Im glad Quentin kept it in.”
11.ForThe Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio went the method acting route.
I certainly dont eat raw bison liver on a regular basis."
It says it all.
It was an instinctive reaction."
She also said, “I always get worried about anything physical, like the action sequences.
Neil Patrick Harris and I had to do a violent scene.
They are my Room 101.
So let me eat a cockroach.”
The director readily made it happen, and the actor munched a cockroach on camera.
Robert told theRinger, “He wanted to eat the most frightening thing for him.
I thought, This is terrific!
I sent my prop people down into the boiler room.
They brought me a box, divided up into little sections with tissue paper.
The cockroaches were there lined up for me to cast.
I think theyre actually called water bugs theyre bigger than cockroaches.”
The doctor told them, “No.
But have him drink some whiskey right after.”
So, they had the actor wash his mouth out with 100-proof vodka after each take.
They only did two takes, but Nic actually ingested the bug both times.
Co-producer Barry Shils lied to an animal rights group and said that they were still alive.
He toldCollider, “They were very real.
Where did they find those maggots?”
However, the animal control inspector on set wouldn’t let them feed the bird a living one.
So, the crew had to wait around and watch the buckets of waxworms until one died.
He toldCBR, “I ate the maggots and it was disgusting and I only did one take.
OnTwitter, he said that he “only swallowed a few.”
