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Times when actors weren’t really acting

Have you ever wondered how can someone act in such a realistic way that we tend to get so immersed in the scene that we actually tend to forget the fact that we were actually watching a movie or a series. Well we are also aware of the fact that how much hard work an actor puts in, in the scene or movie in order to make it look so damn realistic so that the audience is left speechless. Well what do you think? How far can an actor go to make a movie or a scene realistic? 

       ●   Starting from number 10, we have a scene from the ‘Elf’ directed by American actor and director Jonathan Kolia Favreau aka Jon Favreau. The film was released in the year 2003 starring actor Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel and others. There was this scene where actor Will Ferrell was packing the toy called ‘jack in the box’. The director planned to give the actor a sudden shock. Director Jon Favreau was controlling the toy with a remote control and the ‘jack’ of the toy would pop up when he would press the button. Therefore what we see in the movie, when the actor Will Ferrell is usually packing the toys and the reaction when the ‘jack’ popped up was all natural and was not scripted at all.

      

● In the 9th place we have the scene from the 1996 horror, mystery film ‘Scream’, directed by director Wes Craven, featuring actor Drew Barrymore, Courteny Cox , David Arguette and others. In one of the movie scenes we see actress Drew Barrymore getting terrified because none of the actors were allowed to meet or to talk to the person who was playing the role of ‘Ghostface’ in the movie. The iconic telephonic conversation between them between him and Drew happens in real time where we see the actor getting terrified in real life.

● Leonardo Dicaprio is one of the finest actors of the Hollywood industry. He never fails to disappoint his fans through his fabulous acting skills. The 8th place is secured by his 2012 movie ‘Django Unchained’, directed by Quentin Tarantino, the scene where we see Leo slam his hands down  atop the turtle shell table. Where many of us must think that the blood on his palm was artificial, well to our surprise he really does slice his palm open during this scene. We literally watched the actor’s hand get bloodier throughout the scene.

● Remember the 2005 rom-com film, ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’, casting Steve Carell as ‘Andy Stitzer’ directed by Judd Apatow? Well this film comes in the 7th place because of this one hilarious scene where we see actor Steve Carell getting his chest waxed. The entire scene seemed to be so realistic right? Well it all happened because the actor’s chest was literally waxed and apparently he waxed his chest for the first time and never thought that it would be that painful. During an interview with the ‘People’, Carell admitted that it hurt him more than he expected. Well maybe that’s why the scene seems to be more realistic to us. 

● Coming to the 6th place we have the 1988 action-thriller film ‘Die Hard’ directed by John McTiernan starring actor Alan Rickman, Willis and others. The film was an adaptation of the famous novel ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ by author Roderick Thorp which was able to set fire at the box office because of its power pact action scenes. Talking about the action scenes, while filming the death scene of the character ‘Gruber’ played by actor Alan Rickman, the actor was told that he would be dropped from a height on the count of “3”. But unfortunately he was dropped off earlier at the count of “2”. The actor was not injured but his reaction due to this sudden incident made the movie scene as realistic as possible.

● Ever watched ‘ The Chronicles Of Narnia’? This 2005 American fantasy-adventure film featuring actress Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henlev and other talented actors was directed by Andrew Adamson.  This film comes in the 5th position as actors Georgie Henly and Skandar Keynes who played the role of young siblings ‘Lucy’ and ‘Edmund’ respectively were really shocked to see ‘Narnia’ (the set) for the first time and their reactions we saw on screen were genuine because the director purposefully never showed the young actors the majestic set of the fantasy world in order to get that very shocked reaction on screen which was indeed a successful move by the clever director in order to get the very reacquired emotions to be captured on camera.

● A horror film never disappoints us in terms of jump-scares and chill. Well this 1974 horror-thriller film 'The Texas ChainSaw Massacre’ directed by Tobe Hooper didn’t not disappoint us because it stands in the 4th place in our countdown list. The director kept Gunnar Hansen’s (the actor who plays Leatherface) costume and masks a secret from the cast. Allen Danziger’s scream when he first sees the brutal killer is real and amp; genuine. 

● Brad Pitt has become a synonym for action packed movies in Hollywood. The actor is known for performing risky stunts on his own without replacing those risky eye-catching stunts by stuntmen. The scene from his movie ‘Fight Club’ comes in the 3rd position in our list. The film was directed by David Fincher in 1999, this movie caught all the attention of the audience due to two prominent elements, Brad Pitt and off course action. Everything was going as good as usual until this one scene where the punching got a little too intense and real. During a recent interview in the Jimmy Fallon show, ‘The Tonight Show’, one of the actors of the film Edward Norton explains that he really hit Brad Pitt in the ear during one of the scenes and ended up injuring him. When Brad says, “Ow! Why the ear!?'' This very sentence was something which the actor spoke which was definitely not a part of the script or the movie and was said by the actor because he meant it. Crazy right?

● The 2nd position is secured by a scene in the movie ‘Pretty Woman’ directed by Garry Marshall , this 1990 film features actor Richard Gere and actress Julia Roberts where in one of the sequences the actress laughs at the actor when he slams the jewelry box. Initially according to the director as he told to ‘Entertainment Tonight’, that scene where actress Julia Roberts was seen laughing in an uncontrollable manner was actually started as a prank on the actress which was later kept as a part of the movie because the director found it a movie worthy one.

● The 1st position goes to the scene from the 2013 blockbuster ‘Now You See Me’ directed by Brian Tyler starring Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman and other spectacular actors. While this film was able to win the hearts of many people, the special credit goes to this scene where the actress Isla Fisher nearly killed herself while performing a trick. In the scene her character performs a magic trick where she’s supposed to free herself from the shackles while she’s submerged on a tank filled with water. The problem started when one of the chains got actually stuck and she actually started drowning. People were appreciating her fantastic acting thinking that it was just a part of her acting, nobody really realized until one of the stuntmen urged to help her assuming that she wasn't really acting and was in trouble.

Well, these were some of the crazy examples of thousands of such incidents where many times, what we see in our movie screens, TV screens or mobile screens are the actual incidents happening with the actors behind the scenes and not to forget the fact that this is because of their hard work and dedication due to which we get chances to see such masterpiece in our lives.