Being a professional actor doesn’t always mean that they can keep a straight face and
why should it?
Acting is a fun profession and they ought to enjoy themselves while working on set.
Even if they have won numerous acting awards for their serious roles they should never
shy from having a good time.
Some actors are surprisingly funny and these comedy chops can be seen in numerous bloopers
from their films.
Here is Screen Rant’s list of ten Movie Bloopers From Usually Serious Actors.
Naomi Watts in King Kong
The English born actress Naomi Watts has starred in dramatic roles such films as Mulholland
Drive, 21 Grams and J Edgar.
She’s known as a professional actress on set but when she was working on Peter Jackson’s
King Kong she had a few breakups during scenes.
Maybe these bloopers are enticed by her co-star Jack Black or Kong himself but either way
it is fun to see such a serious actress break up.
Each time she botches her line she added a much stronger word in its place, making for
hilarious outtakes.
Josh Brolin in Men in Black 3
Josh Brolin moved from being the older brother in 1985’s The Goonies to playing President
George W. Bush in W and Thanos in numerous Marvel films.
He’s an Oscar nominated actor for his serious roles and has co-starred with some of the
greatest.
He was given the chance to let his guard down but he had to keep his serious face since
he was portraying a younger Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black 3.
The only time we get to see Brolin break a smile is in the outtakes, where he makes funny
voices, let’s off steam and shows his weak fighting skills.
Emma Watson in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
When working on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the young star, Emma Watson couldn’t
hold it together.
There would be these awkward silences in the scenes and the actress couldn’t keep it
together.
Giggling take after take, the director added a system to stop his young cast from laughing.
He would fine them a found after each take they ruined.
This was all in good fun but Watson did have the most fines on set.
Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa
When making a movie sometimes the director or writer will have the actor try different
lines in a scene, these lines are usually jokes and they are trying to find the strongest
one.
All the takes that they don’t use get to go on the blooper reel and we get a good amount
of laughs from it.
In Bad Santa, Billy Bob Thornton is making his way out the mall when a security guard
stops him and asks if he might be stealing something in his baggy pants.
This starts a long line of one-liners from Thornton, which are of course…bad.
That’s not the Christmas spirit but it is funny!
Natalie Portman in Your Highness
Natalie Portman is remarkable in her dramatic roles and even won an Oscar for best actress
in the dark drama Black Swan.
Branching out into comedy, Portman co-starred in 2011’s Your Highness along side Danny
McBride and James Franco.
Portman had a line that involved calling her female anatomy a beaver and just couldn’t
get through it.
Take after take she stumbled, even trying to change the line to better suit her needs.
It’s okay, because she does make it up with a memorable swimming scene in the film.
Jeremy Renner in Avengers: Age of Ultron
Marvel blooper reels are fan favorites and everyone can’t wait to buy the Blu-Ray to
see the newest gag reel.
Sometimes the crew actually films a fake scene to add to the blooper reel like Jeremy Renner
and the Avengers team did for Avengers: Age of Ultron.
At the cost of his life Quicksiler saves Hawkeye from a bullet and Hawkeye carries his body
onto a Lifeboat.
In the film Quicksilver lies dead but in the alternate version he wakes up only to be smothered
to death by Hawkeye.
Hawkeye does not seem to be very grateful.
Bryan Cranston in Total Recall
Since Bryan Cranston starred in five seasons of Breaking Bad the world has seen his serious
side and we love it.
He’s a pretty cool guy, busting the chops of fans at Comic-Con or fighting off Godzilla.
He’s been in numerous biopics and has been awarded countless awards for his dramatic
roles.
During the filming of 2012’s Total Recall he had some issues remembering the dialogue
“I want him alive for re-implantation” and goofs up his line time and time again.
Kate Beckinsale in Underworld: Awakening
It’s hard to believe Kate Beckinsale can do anything wrong but during the filming of
2012’s Underworld: Awakening she has numerous bloopers.
Fighting Lycan’s is dangerous and hard work but sometimes you just have to take a break
and dance.
In a slow motion scene Beckinsale kills a Lycan by firing off a few shots and takes
a misstep causing her to go into a dance.
In real life not even a Lycan would pass up the opportunity to dance with her.
Malcolm McDowell in Halloween
Ever since 1971 when Malcolm McDowell starred in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange audiences
have known him as a serious actor.
Usually cast a bad guy in 2007’s remake of the 1978 horror classic, Halloween, he
is being chased by the bad guy, or boogeyman.
In a blooper where Michael Myers breaks in from a door behind him McDowell goes into
a hilarious improv rant to the masked killer.
Maybe this is why McDowell has been cast in so many comedies throughout
his career.
Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing
Hugh Jackman is a lot of fun on set and you can see this just from his outtakes.
During the filming of Van Helsing, the star not only broke character numerous times to
dance with his co-star or break into laugher but he also had a hard time in his costume.
That heavy outfit kept getting in his way and he trips his way through the blooper reel
of the film.
Looks like Jackman needs to practice his stunt maneuvers before his next film.
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