actors are a different sort of people once they get to the big leagues of hollywood they can make
tens of millions pretending to be someone else for a few months that's not a lifestyle
most of us will ever understand and it seems to go to the heads of some actors
who put some questionable demands on their co-workers when it comes to making movies
number 10. salvador dali's dune payday dune is something of a cultural phenomenon these days
david lynch's 1984 movie was a cult classic and the 2021 remake managed to really capture the
imagination of audiences with updated special effects and a different interpretation of
the source material but what about alejandro holovsky's 1970s version before lynch horovsky
tried to make the movie and it would have featured an amazing cast including mick jagger orson welles
and david carrandin the director also snagged one unexpected star in the form of artist salvador
dali he was said to play the parashat emperor shadam iv the role came with one very particular
condition he demanded to be paid a hundred thousand dollars per hour so that he could
be the highest paid actor of all time horizons either felt that getting darley was such a coup
that he couldn't say no or he really wanted to spite the man for his request because he agreed
the terms then he cut the character's role down so severely that dali was only needed for one hour
for a hundred thousand dollars the movie never got off the ground though so we never got to see what
a hundred thousand dollars buys from salvador dali 9. gary busey's heaven gary busey is known as one
of the most eccentric actors in hollywood whether as a result of some very drug-filled early days in
hollywood which included snorting cocaine off a dog or his 1988 motorcycle accident that nearly
killed him he's been through some stuff and it's that latter point that resulted in what must be
one of the strangest demands an actor has ever made in 2003 bucy was cast in a movie called
quigley the plot in the movie is that a greedy ceo dies in an accident and god sends him back
to earth as a pomeranian dog named quigley beauty played the man dog obviously the plot requires a
scene in heaven but bucy stopped production when he was supposed to film it he told the
director he'd already been to heaven as a result of his 1988 accident and the heavenly built on
set was not accurate he made them make changes which included getting rid of mirrors because
heaven doesn't have any he was so committed to his vision that according to co-star curtis armstrong
bucy got into a fist fight with another actor who had also had a near-death experience and disagreed
with bucy's version of heaven in any event abuse he wouldn't continue filming until they made
changes to the look number eight dear hunter live round when it comes to method acting and we'll
touch on that later most people tend to think of daniel day lewis but it's worth remembering that
the legendary robert de niro falls into this category as well for most of his roles this
included a lot of heavy research and even physical training but that wasn't the case with every role
and arguably de niro takes the cake for being the most method actor ever with his onset behavior
during the filming of the deer hunter in what is still considered one of the most powerful scenes
in cinema de niro's character is forced into a game of russian roulette with christopher walken
by soldiers holding them at gunpoint it's about as tense as any scene you'll ever see and it's
made even more intense when you find out how de niro insisted that the scene be filmed he wanted a
live round in the gun the gun was checked before every take to make sure the bullet was not the
next round and it must have been a psychological thing for de niro but try to imagine an actor
pulling that on set today 7. tony clifton's contract comedian andy kaufman blurred the
lines between reality and performance back in the 1970s and 80s he was eccentric and unpredictable
and people either consider him a genius a madman or an idiot sometimes all three but he rose to
fame on the show taxi and people loved him there so the producers weren't willing to give him a lot
of latitude coffin had an alter ego a character he played on stage called tony clifton clifton was an
obnoxious overweight lounge singer character who himself wasn't funny but the joke was that he was
so over the top that he was supposed to be funny at least to some people as clifton kaufman didn't
care who he offended or how and it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way in order to get kauffman
to appear on taxi the producers had to agree to his contract demands one of those was that tony
clifton was going to appear on the show in fact a separate contract was made out for tony clifton
clifton was a terrible actor and showed up on set with two prostitutes producers told kaufman that
clifton was being fired and then when they did a table read as per kaufman's demands clifton
threw a fit of rage and had to be removed by security remember these are both the same people
6. prince's new girl cameo there's no doubt prince is a musical icon and the man himself had a bold
weird personality he was notoriously outspoken and not afraid to turn down opportunities that
other people would have crawled through hot coals to have so on the rare occasion when
prince did agree to do something a little off the beaten path you have to assume that everyone went
out of their way to keep him happy when it came to acting prince did very little he was in a handful
of movies most of which he directed himself and two television appearances his first tv spot was
on the muppets tonight in 1997 and then two years before he died he appeared on the sitcom new girl
prince was apparently a fan of the show and actually asked if he could be on it so you think
it'd be light on the demand since he was making the request but it turns out that he did have
one serious demand about how the episode would go down and it involved banishing someone else
in the episode prince played himself and had a party as scripted the kardashians were supposed
to be at the party and both kris jenner and khloe kardashian had filmed a quick cameo so far so good
well not quite turns out prince really disliked the kardashians he once kicked kim kardashian
off stage at a concert some years earlier so his people told the new girl producers
that the kardashians would never be at one of his parties the producers literally blurred all
the copies of the script that mentioned them and then cut them from the episode
5. ben affleck's hat ben affleck loves boston everyone who knows ben affleck knows this
that's fine lots of people love the cities they come from on their local sports team but ben
affleck's love of boston takes on a new dynamic that has literally interfered with his work
on the set of the movie gone girl often considered one of affleck's best the director david fincher
needed affleck to do one simple thing when his character was in new york he had to wear a new
york yankees hat as in the arch rival of affleck's beloved boston red sox remember this is just an
actor playing a role a pretend person who isn't real and affleck would not do it on the director's
commentary track fincher referred to affleck as being entirely unprofessional and mentions it
shut down production for four days in the end they compromised on a mets hat before sean bean walked
middle earth the law of the rings was a massive undertaking and while today we're more used to
expansive cinematic universes the trilogy was a real feat when it was first made it was colossal
in scope it took 438 days to film the entire adventure which is a hell of an investment of time
and effort from all of the actors the time and effort put into making the movie takes on
a new level when you take one actor's needs into account shawn bean famous for dying tragically in
almost everything he's ever starred in had a very unusual requirement bean is terrified of flying
on paper that doesn't sound like a big deal there aren't a lot of planes in middle-earth
but there were mountains and the cast needed to be flown by helicopter up into those mountains to
film their scenes bean refused and while everyone else flew he just climbed the mountain like a boss
he was dressed in a full boromir armor and had to spend several hours catching up
3. mike myers loves chocolate despite how silly most of mike mars's roles have been he's known
to be a staunch perfectionist on set in accordance with this though he seems like a barrel of laughs
on screen he's a bit of an ogre in a non-shrek way behind the scenes and this has led to him
rubbing co-workers the wrong way while demanding certain scenes or certain jokes be played in a
specific way make sense not everything mars has been accused of is in service to the final picture
according to his cat and the hat co-star amy hill myers was a nightmare to work with she said not
only did he put no effort into getting to know anyone he went full diva on set between takes
mars had a chocolate guy so what's a chocolate guy well that's a guy who stands to the side of the
set with a tupperware tub of chocolate when myers needed a cocoa-based boost his chocolate guy would
run to his side with the tupperware presumably he didn't share with the rest of the cast and crew
number two shia labeouf goes bloody method we discussed robert de niro's method acting
earlier and how dangerous that was but at least it was potential danger shah alabama doesn't deal
in potential his method acting is full dangerous and absolutely unsafe in the movie fury he played
a tank gunner to make the character more real he decided to live life the way he felt a tank gunner
needed to live that included cutting back severely on things like hygiene rumor has it that director
and fellow actor brad pitt warned him that he needed to bathe because he was offending everyone
on set when he refused he was sent to a small bed and breakfast to stay by himself but most
dramatically in order to achieve the effect of a truly wounded warrior he literally took a knife
and sliced his own face open over the course of the film he apparently continued to reopen the
cuts to keep them looking fresh and of course he had a tooth removed to complete the look number
one kirk cameron's mortality kirk cameron is not well known to the kids of today but if you grew up
in the 1980s it was like harry styles only more judgmental star of the hit sitcom growing pains
cameron was primed to be a teen heartthrob but he took an unexpected turn and became a born-again
christian and that's a great thing for anyone to do if it makes them happy but cameron took his
newfound faith and started forcing it on others as the star of the show and the major audience draw
he held a lot of sway over story lines and even casting and he used that to his full advantage
the most notorious example of this was how he had his character's girlfriend dropped from the show
cameron's character was involved with julie played by actress julie mccullough the two were supposed
to get married in season five of the show but between four and five cameron discovered that
she posed for playboy two years earlier and he demanded she be fired instead of a wedding season
five starts with julie dumping camera and then she's gone never to be seen again word is this
wasn't cameron's only pious crusade against the show and he apparently called out several
producers for being pornographers so i really hope you found this video interesting if you did
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