6 Famous Movie Scenes That Were Total Backstage Disasters

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Daniel Craig's Gloves In Skyfall May Have Cost The Studio A Lot Of Money

James Bond has a few different jobs. He has to kill people. He has to look good doing it. And ... hmm. So it's really just the two. But you need both, is the main point, and it's fair to say that everyone involved in the franchise goes to great lengths to make sure Bond, James Bond is always looking his best. Including the actor portraying him.

Eon ProductionsAlthough they shot down his idea that Bond should be wearing a Borat mankini for this scene.

According to film critic Charlie Lyne, while filming Skyfall, Daniel Craig decided to take a little ownership over Bond's wardrobe. After going on a shopping trip, he came away with a nice pair of leather gloves which he wanted to wear while filming some scenes. The director, Sam Mendes, said sure, whatever, because that's evidently how decisions sometimes get made on hundred-million-dollar productions.

So they shoot the scene, Bond's hands look amazing, and months later, they're editing it and suddenly realize what a colossal mistake they've made. Earlier in the film, they'd gone to great lengths to establish that Bond had a gun with sensors that read his fingerprints so that it wouldn't work if anyone else tried to fire it. There was a whole big scene with Q when they introduced it, and the gun not firing for some thug in Macau is a key plot point. But if that's the case, then how the hell would the gun work when Bond was wearing gloves?

We should point out that this anecdote hasn't been confirmed by anyone official. But the evidence for it is substantial. Check out this production shot distributed before the movie was released to see Bond during the Shanghai sequence with both the gun and the stupid frigging gloves:

Eon ProductionsLicense to kill ... continuity

Yeah, that's not going to work. As the story goes, when they realized the problem in post-production, they knew that none of the solutions would be easy. Most of them would have required re-shooting hefty chunks of the film. What they eventually came up with (throwing computers at it) more or less solved the problem, but it's hardly perfect. They CGI'd Bond's hands back into all the scenes in which he was wearing gloves, which means that if you pause during the right scenes, you can see Bond sporting some damned puffy-looking hands.

Eon ProductionsWow, commander. Maybe time to take some salt tablets or something.

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Being A Female X-Man Comes With A Humiliating Costuming Process

Putting on the massively detailed rubber costumes required by modern blockbusters is a notorious ordeal. They almost all require the actor to sit in the makeup chair for hours before and after every shoot. But it's quite a bit worse for female actors, who are wearing nothing but this makeup and latex.

Olivia Munn discovered this while filming X-Men: Apocalypse. Like most female X-Men characters, Psylocke wears a very tight costume, and oh boy, "tight" doesn't really feel like a strong enough word to describe what's happening with it.

20th Century FoxIn the interest of academic illustration, we present an image of it above.

Getting into this thing required an exceptional amount of lubrication, both on the costume and Munn herself. Even once inside it, she was hardly safe from humiliation. At one point, she (in her own words) "popped the crotch," bursting the latex around a delicate area while on set. We will not be illustrating that.

Rebecca Romijn had an even worse experience while portraying Mystique, whose costume consisted of little more than "Rebecca Romijn" and "paint." She was basically naked the entire time, and the crew classily wasn't shy about telling her that. Worse, for those who don't know, the human butt famously has a crack in it. Right up the middle. Check your own if you're uncertain. Anyway, you can't really show that in a movie (of this type, at least), so they had to paint over it and otherwise maintain it. Well, it was during one of these routine bouts of crack maintenance that director Bryan Singer walked in and found Romijn "literally bent over a chair getting [her] crack touched up." He thought she needed some white wine. She concurred.

20th Century FoxIn the comics, Mystique's butt had its own 18-part miniseries.

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Indiana Jones' Blood Effects Were Literally Pepper Spray

Raiders Of The Lost Ark is a masterpiece, an almost perfect blend of action and adventure. A big part of this is the relatively lighthearted tone the movie maintains, which was a somewhat tricky feat considering the amount of violence in it. Spielberg had to employ a gentle hand with the killing, and one of the hardest shots to do that with was one you might not even remember. About midway through the airplane fight, wherein Jones is fist-fighting that huge shirtless Nazi, another truckload of Nazis shows up. And Marion shoots them all with a machine gun.

LucasfilmYou never realized Marion killed as many Nazis as Indy in this film, did you?

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George Lucas Got His Head Stuck In The Jaws Robot

The production of Jaws was notoriously troublesome. Anything filmed at sea has a tendency for being problematic, and on top of that, there were all the problems they had getting the animatronics used to move Richard Dreyfuss around. Oh, and the mechanical shark had issues too.

Universal PicturesBesides the obvious emotional ones, we mean.

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Burt Reynolds Was Stripped Naked By A Waterfall While Making Deliverance

Burt Reynolds is a man's man, and a woman's man, and probably several other types of people's man. And like all the big burly, hairy men of his era, he insisted on doing most of his stunts himself. Which became an issue when it came to filming Deliverance.

The movie called for Reynolds' character to ride a canoe over a 25-foot waterfall, which if you know anything about "waterfalls," or even "25 feet," you'll realize is quite risky. A normal production would have handled this with a stuntman, or simply by sending a dummy over the edge.

Warner Bros. PicturesA well-sideburned dummy, obviously.

But this would not do for the Bandit. Reynolds insisted on doing the stunt himself, and possibly because they were trying to get rid of him, they let him. In Reynolds' own words, here's what happened next:

"I went over the falls and the first thing that happened I hit a rock and cracked my tailbone, and to this day it hurts. Then I went down to the water below and it was a whirlpool. I couldn't get out and guy there said if you get caught, just go to the bottom. You can get out but you can't swim against it. So I went down to the bottom. What he didn't tell me was it was going to shoot me up like a torpedo. So I went out."

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The Iconic Spider-Man Kissing Scene Waterboarded Tobey Maguire

Sam Raimi has a bit of a reputation when it comes to how he treats actors. He hits them, is the main thing. It's for the purposes of the movies, so, you know, it's moral, don't call the police, but he loves having shit thrown at his actors, and sometimes does it personally, just to make sure their terror-filled reactions are real.

Which brings us to Spider-Man -- the Tobey Maguire one from 2002, to be clear. Possibly the most iconic moment from that film was Maguire's famous upside-down kiss with Kirsten Dunst. It's famous for a reason. You'd never seen anything like it, gravity and tongue geometry being what it is. In fact, the more you think about the details, the more you'll realize how awkward of a move it is.