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We tend to think that the entertainment industry is all glitz and glamour, but that’s because all we see are the fat paychecks and the red carpet. The shoots themselves can get down and dirty. Just ask Leo about The Revenant.

Horse carcass or no horse carcass, these actors all found other dirty, embarrassing, even painful ways to get the job done.

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Se7en

Detective Mills got a cast because Brad Pitt ran into a car. SE7EN CRACKED.COM While filming that rainy chase scene, Pitt hit a car's hood wrong, broke the windshield, and sliced up his hand. Не required a cast while his severed tendon healed, so Pitt's cast became Mills' cast. — Source

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Lucille Ball wrote a full season arc around a skiing accident. HERE'S LUCY GRACKED.COM Four seasons into her follow-up to I Love Lucy, Ball fractured her leg skiing. Season five largely revolved around her sitting stationary in a hospital bed, falling in love with a doctor, and having to rely on dialogue rather than slapstick. — Source

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Tina Fey had to give Tim Meadows carpal tunnel. MEAN GIRLS CRACKED.COM Meadows broke his wrist a week before filming started, and would need a cast for the entire shoot. Instead of kicking one of their biggest stars to the curb, Tina Fey decided the chronic condition would explain why Mr. Duvall wears a cast all the time. — Source

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James Franco sprinted face-first into a dark forest. PINEAPPLE EXPRESS CRACKED.COM In the process, he gashed open his head and required several stitches. Instead of halting production for weeks so he could heal, they decided that his character just wears a headband now. — Source

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The feast scenes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone literally stank. The food was left there for three to four days of shooting, so by the second day, the actors had to do endure the stench of rotting food. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jonah Hill got sick from inhaling vitamin powder for Wolf of Wall Street. The powder was fake cocaine, and it made him sick because he'd had to snort it for months and months. In the end, he had to be hospitalized for three weeks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Fincher ordered Mara Rooney to get blackout drunk, then come to him the morning after. Не wanted to take pictures of her to show the studio that Rooney could look strung out as Lisbeth in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, so they'd cast her. She did it, throwing up that whole night. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A lot of the time on the Elysium shoot, Matt Damon had to throw away what he was wearing at the end of the day. Many scenes were shot in Bordo Poniente in Mexico City, the second-largest garbage dump in the world. Just hanging out there had a very real risk of making you sick, and reusing clothes would have been a health hazard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Laura Innes

CRACKED.COM A DECADE SPENT USING A CRUTCH FOR THE ROLE OF DR. KERRY WEAVER LEFT LAURA INNES WITH REAL-LIFE SPINE CURVATURE. — Source

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MATT. LEBLANC dislocated his shoulder doing a dive for a chair while filming the episode The one where no one's ready. Instead of trying to hide it, the FRIENDS writers added a storyline where Joey hurt his arm jumping on a bed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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While auditioning for Elizabeth I, Eddie Redmayne led the director to believe he was an experienced horseback rider. Не got the part and the truth came out. Redmayne nearly killed himself trying to shoot his scene on the horse. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Real bees were used during the making of the '90s horror trilogy CANDYMAN. Over the course of the three films, actor Tony Todd got stung 23 times. Thanks to his lawyer, he was paid $1,000 per sting. And yes, those are real bees in his mouth. I had a dental dam that prevented any kind of intake, and I just had balls of steel. CRACKED.COM — Source

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INDIANAJONES LAST and the CRUSADE Sean Connery and Harrison Ford aren't wearing any pants during this scene, because it was so hot on the day of filming. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The District 9 voices were made from the sound of pumpkins being rubbed together combined with clicking and the actors' voices. CRACKED.COM — Source

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1917

Scofield getting knocked down on the battlefield in 1917 was a total accident. An extra just walked into George MacKay, and they kept filming. Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns loved it, though, and says it's one of her favorite scenes in the movie. I wish I wrote that, she said. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The owners of the Breaking Bad house built a six-foot iron fence around it. For years, have been throwing pizzas on the house's roof (to recreate the scene where Bryan Cranston did that), and this was the only family's only remaining option to deal with it. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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For the first Borat movie, Sacha Baron Cohen never washed Borat's suit. Не never wore deodorant when he was filming, either, creating a Soviet-bloc smell the moment he walked into a room. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Tokyo Drift production had a designated fall guy. They couldn't get permits to shoot on location in Tokyo, so they hired one guy to say he's the director when police showed up. Не spent a night in jail, and director Justin Lin is forever grateful. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The production of Mad Max: Fury Road moved from Australia because the desert had suddenly disappeared. Broken Hill (normally) There was way more rainfall than usual, so the barren area they'd picked (Broken Hill) was a lot more lush and lively than they wanted, and they moved to Namibia. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Trust the comedy instincts of LESLIE MANN CRACKED.COM Apatow thought her scene should end with cops finding a gun under her seat. And Leslie said to me, 'No, I really think I need to throw up in his face.' And then she made her own vomit out of strawberry yogurt and some sort of breakfast cereal. And it turned out to be one of the biggest laughs of the movie. — Source

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Mila Kunis was INJURED during a water scene. THE ACTRESS SAID SHE RIPPED A PIECE OF HER NECK OFF WHILE FILMING. Jason Segel is holding my neck. He's holding it because I'm bleeding-you only see half my neck. The other side is gushing. BEHIND THE SCENES I FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elaine's dad was supposed to be a reoccurring character, but the actor scared the cast. Julia Louis-Dreyfus called Lawrence Tierney a total nutjob. Не stole a butcher knife from the set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS RICHARD JENKINS' DINOSAUR MONOLOGUE WAS IMPROVISED. WINE MIXER STEP BROTHERS Jenkins improvised the hilarious monologue on the day of the shoot. However, the actor was embarrassed by it and asked Adam McKay to not use it in the final cut. McKay thought it was too funny and decided to use it anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Commenting 22 # ssh 10,2,2,2 must os material for host root@ 10,2 SCON The writer and GRC32 the director didn't know that Kristen Bell was in an ACTUAL MOVIE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY THAT KILLS PEOPLE. Bell thought they were making fun of her for starring in the movie, Pulse, but Jason Segel and Nick Stoller didn't know what she was talking about. WE HAD NO IDEA THAT SHE HAD DONE A MOVIE THAT HAD THE PREMISE OF A KILLER CELL PHONE. WE JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A FUNNY IDEA THAT SEEMED IN LINE WITH ALL THESE JAPANESE HORROR REMAKES. BEHIND THE SCENES — Source

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The Princess Bride

André's stuntman was a foot shorter than him CRACKED.COM Because of back problems, 7' 5 André needed to use a 6' 5 stuntman for scenes with Elwes on his back. — Source

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BEHINO-THE-SOENSSPACTS Napoleon Dynamite screwed up NETFLIX CRACKED.COM More than virtually any other movie, Netflix users give Napoleon Dynamite either five stars or one star. That disparity plays havoc with Netflix's suggestion engine, which can't figure out how to recommend other movies based on the love-it-or-hate-it reaction. — Source

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Get Out

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BRADLEY WHITFORD MIGHT'VE INSPIRED THE OBAMA JOKE. GET OUT The actor admits that while filming the movie he had no idea that the I would've voted for Obama for a third term if I could line was supposed to be satirical and that it's possible he might've sincerely said that same thing to Jordan Peele at one point. CRACKED.COM — Source

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