10 Embarrassing Scenes Actors Would Rather Not Remember
Actors frequently regret certain scenes in their movies. They agree to participate in dubious film projects that often turn out to be physically and morally exhausting. Sometimes they just do something ridiculous without suspecting it. Remembering the sad experience, the stars make fun of themselves or cover their faces with their hands showing shame.
Hugh Jackman—Project 43
After the award for the best role in the film Les Miserables, actor Hugh Jackman fell out of the public eye and got into a film project called Project 43, an absurd black comedy. Only Jackman didn't feel like laughing. Hugh even posted a message from the future online in which he warned himself to refuse to film Project 43.
The cause is the scene of the romantic blind date of Beth (Kate Winslet) and Davis (Hugh Jackman), in which the actor is presented to viewers with "the anatomical peculiarity" male in the chin. Critics tore the film to pieces, and most of the famous actors who took part in the filming, by and large, did not go to the premiere.
Arnold Schwarzenegger — Hercules in New York
Unlike Hugh Jackman, Arnold Schwarzenegger recalls his experience in the movie Hercules in New York with a smile: "It's a cheap movie that I always make fun of because, in reality, it's ridiculous and, in it, I make a fool of myself" .
The actor is especially uncomfortable with the scene in which he fights with an artificial bear. “The boy dressed in a bear suit and me, a muscular fool, and all that in a ridiculous fight. Just stop that movie."
Jennifer Lawrence—Passengers
Jennifer Lawrence confessed that, before filming the erotic scene in the movie Passengers, she was very nervous. The actress was worried since it would be the first time that she would have to get naked and, moreover, in front of married actor Chris Pratt.
After filming the scene, Lawrence returned home, but her concern only increased. "What have I done? I do not understand anything. He's married!”, she agonized over it. To ease her conscience, Jennifer called her mom: "Tell me everything is okay." The actress said that this is the most awkward thing she has ever done.
Martin Sheen — Apocalypse Now
In the opening scene of the movie Apocalypse Now, Captain Willard, devastated and drunk, makes a mess of the hotel room. The protagonist throws things, breaks the mirror into pieces with his fist and, bleeding, plunges into a painful depression. And, if that wasn't bad enough, during filming, the actor was actually drunk.
The next day, Sheen returned to the disastrous room and saw the blood on the bed, which terrified him: “He embarrassed me a lot. I couldn't believe I had done that." Sheen confessed to the film's director, Francis Ford Coppola, that in all these decades, he hasn't seen the scene, and he refuses to to this day.
Nicole Kidman—Big Little Lies
Actress Nicole Kidman played the young Celeste who suffers from family violence in the series Big Little Lies. The slender and educated woman is forced to endure humiliation from her husband to "preserve the marriage." The scene in which Celeste is lying near the feet of her overbearing, battered, trembling husband makes Kidman, to this day, clench her fists.
“I was just lying on the ground. I couldn't get up. I felt humiliated. The anger was boiling inside of me,” says Kidman. After the filming, the depressed actress returned to the hotel. She tried to open the door, but the key had broken. So, Nicole took a stone from the ground and broke her bedroom window with it. Kidman confesses that she regretted her violent reaction to filming such a humiliating scene.
Bryan Cranston—Breaking Bad
Actor Bryan Cranston, who played Walter White on the Breaking Bad series, can't help but cry when he remembers filming one of the episodes. This is the scene in which he sees a friend of his student Jesse dying. Walter doesn't help her, but instead stands beside her and watches as the girl dies.
What Cranston felt at the time: “My character reaches out to her because that's her human instinct. But then he stops, thinking, 'Wait, she's a drug addict. She will destroy Jesse. She'll be better off if I don't do anything. But she is so young, she could be my daughter.’” The actor for a long time thought about this terrifying scene and even blamed himself for the indifference of his character.
Alfie Allen – Game of Thrones
The chapter "Never bent, never broken" is recognized by fans as the worst chapter of Game of Thrones. Actor Alfie Allen, who plays Theon Greyjoy, agrees with fans, acknowledging that the worst scene for him was Sansa Stark and Ramsay Bolton's wedding night. The sadistic Bolton orders Theon to stay in the bedroom and watch Sansa's humiliation.
The painful scene impressed Allen so much that, for a long time, the actor did not want to talk about it: “I don't want to talk about this scene too much, but filming Ramsey and Sansa's wedding night was the worst day of all seasons. . And all the rape left behind the scenes, your imagination will fill in. Sophie Turner is a wonderful actress."
Jessica Alba — Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
In 2007, Jessica Alba played the superheroine Susan Storm in the second part of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, which was a blow to the actress's ego. The film's director, Tim Story, literally made the actress feel useless.
In one of the scenes, Jessica was supposed to cry. She tried to act convincingly, but Tim constantly criticized her: “This doesn't look very realistic. And it looks very useless.” After this, the director asked Alba not to do anything with her face: “She just looks calmly. Then, with the help of special effects, we painted the tears”. The actress took this phrase to heart and was almost disappointed in her profession.
Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon – Water for Elephants
"The medicine against nasal congestion for Pattinson, please!" This is how the actress would call the kiss scene with Robert Pattinson in the movie Water for Elephants. The actress had to kiss the Twilight actor with a cold according to the script, and she declared that the moment was unpleasant: “He had a bad cold. He was gross.”
For Pattinson, filming the love scenes also proved frustrating. “We shot this scene and the stuffy nose got the best of me. Reese had a wig that I constantly blew my nose in."
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire — Don's Plum
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire would have a hard time single out the most embarrassing scene in the movie The Don's Plum. For 86 minutes, the characters exchange dirty jokes, make fun of themselves, pick their noses, annoy cafeteria visitors and perform emotional monologues in the bathroom in front of the mirror.
The actors believe that participation in such a project reveals them in a bad way. Therefore, DiCaprio and Maguire made a power move and sued the court for the banning of this film in the United States and Canada. In an open letter to the dissatisfied actors, producer Dale Wheatley reproaches them for not being honest and wanting to return the right to Don's Plum.
