9 Unusual Demands Made By Actors In Movies

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Needing a specific smooch, turning down a hairpiece, and more unusual actor demands.

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00:00Putting your foot down when it pertains to the wearing of a specific hairpiece,

00:04feeling the need to put the rest of your castmates through airborne hell for a project,

00:08or even going out of your way to plant a smooch on, um, yourself,

00:12all undoubtedly qualify as slightly to seriously strange movie set occurrences.

00:17So with that in mind, I'm Gareth from WhatCulture.com and here are unusual demands made by actors on movies.

00:23Leonardo DiCaprio didn't want the world to see naked Meryl Streep. Don't look up.

00:28The iconic Meryl Streep has more than earned her place among the greats and the respect of her many colleagues over the years.

00:34However, it was due to the sheer reverence Leonardo DiCaprio had for the record-setting 21-time Academy Award nominee

00:40that a rather raunchy and jaw-dropping scene in Adam McKay's recent end-of-the-world comedy hit Don't Look Up

00:45was surprisingly deemed somewhat unnecessary by the fellow icon.

00:49The Oscar-winning star of the flick went out of his way to push back against the inclusion of Streep's President Orleans,

00:55boasting a lower-back tattoo and strutting around naked in the film's mid-credits stinger.

01:00Despite the fact that it was actually a body-double seen in the scene,

01:03Streep was said to have not even blinked or brought up this being any sort of issue.

01:07With the fearless legend being very much game when it came to playing a character

01:11who was ultimately dispatched in the buff by a Brontorock,

01:14Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst refuse to speak. The power of the dog.

01:18Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst's fierce commitment to their roles of Phil Burbank and Rose Gordon respectively

01:24in Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog certainly did not go unnoticed.

01:28And while the same could not have been said for Cumberbatch himself,

01:31with the Doctor Strange actor infamously holding back on showers for a spell,

01:35the film's two leading lights actually went to rather extreme lengths

01:38to ensure they didn't catch too many glimpses of one another over the course of the shoot.

01:42Explaining to NME his reasoning for largely ignoring Dunst Gordon whilst filming,

01:46Cumberbatch would note I didn't want to be really mean to Kirsten,

01:50but I needed to stay in character, so I didn't speak to her on set.

01:54She was the same, we were the negative to each other's positive, we were repelled by each other.

01:58Nicolas Cage wants to kiss himself, the unbearable weight of massive talent.

02:02Any film boasting the one and only Nicolas Cage playing a fictionalised version of himself

02:07at the centre of an action-packed comedy tale which focuses on all things Cage

02:11was always destined to be an utterly balmy affair.

02:14And sure enough, with this Nick Cage variant of the man behind the moniker

02:17routinely finding himself at odds with his younger, much more rebellious inner self

02:21throughout Tom Gormickon's flicks,

02:23coming during a scene involving Cage's on-screen character bickering with his younger Nicky self,

02:28Gormickon would reveal to IndieWire that the massive talent himself

02:31pulled him to one side before the shooting of the scene

02:34and declared,

02:35Guys, I have an idea, I'll French kiss myself.

02:38This being in the peak of the pandemic,

02:40the director was tasked with figuring out how to pull this off without getting anyone sick.

02:44But when Nick Cage requests to plant a smacker on his inner cage,

02:47a get-this-man-astoundable,

02:49Jared Leto needs a crotch, Morbius.

02:51Jared Leto was at it again when it was time to mob up for his most recent attempt

02:55at making a splash in the super pool.

02:57With the leading vampire tasked with convincingly portraying a character suffering

03:00from a rare blood disease at points in Morbius,

03:03on top of refusing to break the character of Dr. Michael Morbius over the course of shooting,

03:08Leto was said to have insisted on using fake crutches to move around set in between tanks.

03:13Literally pushed to his limit due to said mode of transport largely delaying his shoot,

03:17director Daniel Espinoza would eventually tell Uproxx

03:20that he was forced to get someone to dump the actor in a wheelchair

03:23whenever he required the bathroom as a way of speeding up the overall process.

03:27Yet all of the committed hobbling in the world

03:28couldn't save this mob in time from disaster on two separate occasions,

03:33with Espinoza likely being saved from any further Leto-induced delays

03:36thanks to the film's deeply underwhelming box office and critical performance.

03:40The Rock doesn't want a padded suit, Black Adam.

03:43When the time called for Dwayne Johnson to finally bulldoze his way into the DCEU as Black Adam,

03:48you had to know that the former WWE star would again put his everything

03:51into getting into typically ridiculous shape.

03:54But in a development that most definitely did not go down too well

03:57with the great one on the back of said grueling workout regime,

04:00the talented costume designers behind the incoming Warner Bros. feature

04:03pitched a suit which came with the usually accepted levels of additional super padding.

04:08Not content with all his hard graft being masked by the costume

04:11and openly declaring he effing hate this costume,

04:14The Rock would tell Total Film,

04:15Everything was padded so they immediately started tearing and cutting and ripping.

04:20When I put that costume on the second time with no padding,

04:22just cut in a way where it was enhancing the work that I had put in,

04:26I felt,

04:27I'm Black Adam.

04:28Sandra Bullock's no asshole policy,

04:30The Lost City.

04:31Don't be an a-hole is probably the simplest yet easily forgotten unwritten rule

04:35when it comes to creating a pleasant and productive working environment.

04:38When it comes to working alongside Academy Award winning actor and prolific producer Sandra Bullock,

04:43however, said rule is anything but unwritten.

04:46It's actually something of a law that will see a cast or crew member giving their marching orders

04:50should they choose to break it.

04:51During an interview alongside fellow The Lost City star Daniel Radcliffe with Australia's The Project TV show,

04:57Bullock would note how she is an advocate of the no-a-hole policy

05:00when it comes to the sets under her watch.

05:03Going further, the Loretta Sage actor would even reveal that we had a couple of them and they went home,

05:07and when assuming that her fellow iconic co-star Brad Pitt must have passed said strict test,

05:12Bullock would cheekily respond to her interviewer by joking,

05:15Well, I don't know about that.

05:17Charming.

05:17Tom Holland refused to wear a wig.

05:19Spider-Man No Way Home.

05:20While the perks that come with becoming a part of the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe

05:24no doubt outweigh the few negatives,

05:26that still hasn't stopped the odd superhero actor from putting their foot down,

05:30when faced with a particularly frustrating demand from the super studio.

05:33In the case of Spider-Man star Tom Holland,

05:36said annoying requests came in the form of his hairstyle coming into his most recent spell of web-slinging in No Way Home,

05:41with the actor being put in an awkward position on the back of changing up his Wii for Uncharted.

05:46As the British Peter Parker actor would reveal to Esquire,

05:49his cooler Nathan Drake's styling initially wasn't deemed suitable for the much nerdier Marvel personality.

05:55But upon being given a strange wig that was just around the sides,

05:59Holland decided to push back as an actor for the first time in his life.

06:02I'm not effing wearing that wig.

06:04I'm going to have shorter hair and you're going to have to deal with it,

06:07were Holland's unwavering orders.

06:08So all of Marvel's additional surreal side-fuzz wig work ultimately went to waste.

06:13Paul Dano needs 200 takes, the Batman.

06:16There's nothing wrong with being something of a perfectionist,

06:19but there's proofreading an important document a few more times just to be safe before clicking send,

06:24and then there's requesting to perform a scene a whopping 200 times in the pursuit of nailing a cinematic performance.

06:30According to the Batman director Matt Reeves, that's roughly how many takes it took for his chosen Riddler, Paul Dano,

06:36to deliver the goods in one particular scene in his recent version of All Things Gotham.

06:40As revealed in a Hollywood Reporter piece on the Batman central antagonist,

06:44Dano would routinely request another chance to bring a different variation of his consistently captivating performance to the table,

06:51while shooting a scene depicting the Riddler conversing with Robert Pattinson's bats on a phone through video chat.

06:56But far from being driven mad by the relentless thespian though,

06:59Reeves would confess how he admired how he was so inventive and creative,

07:03whilst also noting how he's also very critical of himself.

07:06That's one way of putting it, Tom Cruise's need for flight school and no CGI, Top Gun Maverick.

07:11Tom Cruise's need for his co-stars to feel the genuine speed undoubtedly paved the way for arguably the greatest legacy sequel to date.

07:19Designing his very own all-encompassing aviation training for all the actors,

07:22according to Phoenix actor Monica Barbero, producer Jerry Bruckheimer would also note in a behind-the-scenes look at Top Gun Maverick,

07:29that the stars were put through three months of grueling training,

07:33with everything from being aboard jets at high speed to a challenging underwater program being a part of the process.

07:38The filmmakers' commitment to throwing the likes of Miles Teller and the gang into the jet-fueled reality of the situation,

07:44no doubt stem from Cruise's initial demand when agreeing to return to the role of Maverick.

07:48In short, as Cruise would reveal to Empire later down the road,

07:51after years of wondering how in the hell this sequel could ever be achieved,

07:54I'll do it if, meaning I'm not going to do the CGI stuff.

07:59In the end, Cruise and co. undoubtedly prove their still life in the practical side of big screen moviemaking yet,

08:04with Maverick now sitting as the star's most successful box office endeavor to date.

08:09co.

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