6 Truly Dumbass Bets Made Between Famous People

Recently, Freeman teamed up with his Dark Knight trilogy co-star and fellow smooth-voice-haver Michael Caine for a heist movie about a bunch of old farts who are after one last score. The film, Going In Style, was directed by Zach Braff, best known for playing a man who overcomes his various mental incapacities to become a doctor in the touching medical drama Scrubs. It seems that Freeman and Braff had a disagreement on set. Braff claimed that the shot they were preparing was Freeman's last on the film, while the actor insisted that it couldn't be so. Unashamed to take advantage of an 80-something's memory, Braff proposed a bet: If he was right, the owner of one of the most distinctive voices on the planet had to record the outgoing voicemail message for his phone.

And that's why, when anyone calls Braff, they get ear-sexed by Morgan Freeman himself asking them to leave a message. It's almost worth calling Zach Braff to hear. Not surprisingly, Freeman is also really, really goddamn tired of people asking him to do the same for them. Perhaps Daniel Day-Lewis, now that he has nothing to do all day, can fill this niche and record messages as Abe Lincoln.

Granted, they were both fans of the show, so it wasn't like Depp tackled her and shoved her into the poo costume. Also, Depp was reportedly pretty proud of the suit, which he apparently fashioned himself (out fabric, we hope). Pictures of the event supposedly exist, as Depp managed to snap some in the middle of his several giggling fits. Unfortunately, other reported instances of Depp treating women like shit aren't so funny.

Tom Hardy also fell victim to such a dare. Somewhere on his person, there's a shittily scrawled tattoo that says "Leo knows everything." Why? Because while they were making The Revenant together, Leonardo DiCaprio bet him that Hardy would grab a Best Supporting Actor nomination, as if that wasn't something that everyone who watched Hardy in The Revenant could have told him. (Maybe they did, and he's got "Ralph the janitor rules" tatted on his dick.)

These kinds of bets are everywhere. Diane Kruger, whom you may remember as the victim of Quentin Tarantino's choke fetish in Inglourious Basterds, bet director Faith Akin that their film Aus Dem Nichts wouldn't make it into the Cannes Film Festival. She ended up getting a Best Actress award there, along with a brand-new anchor tattoo. Jai Courtney of Suicide Squad made a soccer wager with co-star and fellow Aussie Margot Robbie, and ended up with a tattoo version of the her home state when he lost. At least he didn't make the bet with the method-acting Jared Leto, or Courtney would have ended up with about a dozen more "HAs" on his body.

After sitting through the Fifty Shades movie, Romano was so certain that America would turn its back on that filth that she made a public bet with her husband: If the BDSM extravaganza stopped being the number-one movie in the country after its first weekend, Carlson's husband would have to stand outside their New York City apartment in his skivvies. If the film stuck around like something you'd catch from an 1800s sailor, then she'd have to do the same thing.

America did not answer her call.

Note that this happened in the middle of February, a notorious month for the desire to remain clothed while outside. Still, Carlson stuck to her guns, holding a sign that read "#consent" and remarking how misogynistic the movie was as she walked out onto her freezing cold balcony in lingerie. Per the terms of the bet, she then froze her barely covered ass off for a full minute (and there's video evidence of that). Still, it's hard to fault her for having more faith in her country than most. Here's hoping she didn't make any particularly embarrassing bets around last November.

According to Wikipedia, the movie made a million bucks. Yeah, no shit that guy went on to make more.

And jump in the cacti he definitely did. A seven-foot-tall cactus with three-inch needles, to be exact. So while his cast emerged unscathed, Herzog did not, carrying cactus shrapnel in his body for years after. We don't know if he bounced off the cactus upon impact or if he kind of just stuck to it, but either way, he plays it off like no big deal: "People make too much of that. It was nothing, a gesture of sharing, something to entertain the actors" ... who were sadists and hated him, apparently?

The fact that Herzog kept a cactus handy at all times is the least surprising part of this story.

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