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 routinely finding
02:18himself at odds with his younger, much more rebellious inner self throughout Tom Gormickan's
02:23flicks, coming during a scene involving Cage's on-screen character bickering with his younger
02:27Nicky self, Gormickan would reveal to IndieWire that the massive talent himself pulled him to
02:32one side before the shooting of the scene and declared,
02:35Guys, I have an idea, I'll French kiss myself.
02:38This being in the peak of the pandemic, the director was tasked with figuring out how to pull
02:42this off without getting anyone sick, but when Nick Cage requests to plant a smacker
02:46on his inner cage, a get-this-man-astundable, Jared Leto needs a crutch, Morbius.
02:51Jared Leto was at it again when it was time to mob up for his most recent attempt at making
02:55a splash in the superpool, with the leading vampire tasked with convincingly portraying
03:00a character suffering from 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,
03:07Leto was said to have insisted on using fake crutches to move around set in between,
03:12and takes.
03:13Literally pushed to his limit due to said mode of transport largely delaying his shoot,
03:17director Daniel Espinoza would eventually tell Uproxx that he was forced to get someone
03:21to dump the actor in a wheelchair whenever he required the bathroom as a way of speeding
03:25up the overall process.
03:27Yet all of the committed hobbling in the world couldn't save this mob in time from disaster
03:31on two separate occasions, with Espinoza likely being saved from any further Leto-induced
03:36delays thanks 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
03:47Black Adam, you had to know that the former WWE star would again put his everything into
03:51getting into typically ridiculous shape.
03:53But in a development that most definitely did not go down too well with the great one
03:57on the back of said grueling workout regime, the talented costume designers behind the incoming
04:02Warner Bros feature pitched a suit which came with the usually accepted levels of additional
04:07super padding.
04:08Not content with all his hard graft being masked by the costume, and openly declaring he effing
04:13hate this costume, The Rock would tell Total Film, everything was padded so they immediately
04:17started tearing and cutting and ripping.
04:20When I put that costume on the second time with no padding, just cut in a way where it
04:24was enhancing the work that I had put in, I felt, I'm Black Adam.
04:28Sandra Bullock's no asshole policy, The Lost City.
04:31Don't be an a-hole is probably the simplest yet easily forgotten unwritten rule when it
04:35comes to creating a pleasant and productive working environment.
04:39When it comes to working alongside Academy Award winning actor and prolific producer Sandra
04:43Bullock however, 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
04:49orders should they choose to break it.
04:52During an interview alongside fellow The Lost City star Daniel Radcliffe with Australia's
04:56Project TV show, Bullock would note how she is an advocate of the no a-hole policy when
05:01it 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
05:07they went home.
05:08And 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, well I don't know about that,
05:16charming.
05:17Tom Holland refused to wear a wig, Spider-Man No Way Home.
05:20While the perks that come with becoming a part of the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe no
05:24doubt outweigh the few negatives, that still hasn't stopped the odd superhero actor from
05:29putting their foot down.
05:30When faced with a particularly frustrating demand from the Superstudio, in the case of Spider-Man
05:34star Tom Holland, said annoying requests came in the form of his hairstyle coming into his
05:39most recent spell of web-slinging in No Way Home, with the actor being put in an awkward
05:43position on the back of changing up his Wii for Uncharted.
05:46As the British Peter Parker actor would reveal to Esquire, his cooler Nathan Drake's styling
05:51initially wasn't deemed suitable for the much nerdier Marvel personality.
05:55But upon being given a strange wig that was just around the sides, Holland decided to
05:59push back as an actor for the first time in his life.
06:02I'm not effing wearing that wig, I'm going to have shorter hair and you're going to have
06:06to deal with it, were Holland's unwavering orders.
06:09So 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, but there's proofreading
06:20an important document a few more times just to be safe before clicking send, and then
06:24there's requesting to perform a scene a whopping 200 times in the pursuit of nailing a cinematic
06:29performance.
06:30According to the Batman director Matt Reeves, that's roughly how many takes it took for
06:34his chosen riddler Paul Dano to deliver the goods in one particular scene in his recent
06:39version of All Things Gotham.
06:40As revealed in a Hollywood Reporter piece on the Batman central antagonist, Dano would routinely
06:45request another chance to bring a different variation of his consistently captivating
06:49performance to the table, while shooting a scene depicting the riddler conversing with
06:53Robert Pattinson's bats on a phone through video chat.
06:56But far from being driven mad by the relentless thespian though, Reeves would confess how he
07:00admired how he was so inventive and creative, whilst also noting how he's also very critical
07:05of himself.
07:06That's one way of putting it, Tom Cruise's need for flight school and no CGI, Top Gun Maverick.
07:12Tom Cruise's need for his co-stars to feel the genuine speed undoubtedly paved the way
07:16for arguably the greatest legacy sequel to date.
07:19Designing his very own all-encompassing aviation training for all the actors according to Phoenix
07:23actor Monica Barbero, producer Jerry Bruckheimer would also note in a behind-the-scenes look
07:28at Top Gun Maverick that the stars were put through three months of grueling training, with
07:33everything from being aboard jets at high speed to a challenging underwater program being a part
07:37of the process.
07:38The filmmakers' commitment to throwing the likes of Miles Teller and the gang into the
07:41jet-fueled reality of the situation no doubt stem from Cruise's initial demand when agreeing
07:46to return to the role of Maverick.
07:48In short, as Cruise would reveal to Empire later down the road, after years of wondering
07:52how in the hell this sequel could ever be achieved, I'll do it if, meaning I'm not going
07:57to do the CGI stuff.
07:59In the end, Cruise and co. undoubtedly prove their still life in the practical side of big screen
08:03movie making yet, with Maverick now sitting as the star's most successful box office endeavour
08:08to date.
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