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29 TV Shows and Movies That Got Chaotic Behind the Scenes

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MATT. LEBLANC dislocated his shoulder doing a dive for a chair while filming the episode The one where no one's ready. Instead of trying to hide it, the FRIENDS writers added a storyline where Joey hurt his arm jumping on a bed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Fincher ordered Mara Rooney to get blackout drunk, then come to him the morning after. Не wanted to take pictures of her to show the studio that Rooney could look strung out as Lisbeth in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, so they'd cast her. She did it, throwing up that whole night. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jonah Hill got sick from inhaling vitamin powder for Wolf of Wall Street. The powder was fake cocaine, and it made him sick because he'd had to snort it for months and months. In the end, he had to be hospitalized for three weeks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The feast scenes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone literally stank. The food was left there for three to four days of shooting, so by the second day, the actors had to do endure the stench of rotting food. CRACKED.COM — Source

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James Franco sprinted face-first into a dark forest. PINEAPPLE EXPRESS CRACKED.COM In the process, he gashed open his head and required several stitches. Instead of halting production for weeks so he could heal, they decided that his character just wears a headband now. — Source

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Detective Mills got a cast because Brad Pitt ran into a car. SE7EN CRACKED.COM While filming that rainy chase scene, Pitt hit a car's hood wrong, broke the windshield, and sliced up his hand. Не required a cast while his severed tendon healed, so Pitt's cast became Mills' cast. — Source

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Behind-the-scenes Drama Captain America: Civil War Marvel's CEO tried to get Robert Downey Jr. fired. Kevin Feige and lke Perlmutter's long simmering feud came to a head when Perlmutter tried to get Feige to cut RDJ from the film over his steep paycheck. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Behind-the-scenes Drama Glee Lea Michele is apparently as much of a diva as her character. That was said about her by many co-stars, including Samantha Ware, Heather Morris, Yvette Nicole Brown, Abigail Breslin, Melissa Benoist... and those are just the names you'd recognize. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Behind-the-scenes Drama Euphoria Barbie Ferreira had a fight with sam Levinson. Anonymous reports and rampant internet speculation have blamed Kat's reduced role on fight between the actress and the show's creator. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Behind-the-scenes Drama The Good Wife Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi couldn't be in the same room. Green screen was needed for the emotional final scene between main characters Kalinda and Alicia, because the actresses reportedly hated each other, according to crew members. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Behind-the-scenes Drama Community Make Your chevy chase and Dan Harmon the kept fighting. behind That Pierce's disappearance reportedly from the show. was reason CRACKED.COM — Source

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IN THE EARLY DAYS OF CINEMA, REAL BULLETS WERE FIRED AT ACTORS. Before blanks, squibs, and special effects were invented, directors would hire sharpshooters to shoot over actors' heads during gunfight scenes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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STUDIOS GAVE DRUGS TO CHILD STARS. With ironclad contracts and without child labor laws, studios pushed their young stars to work crazy hours. Judy Garland revealed that Mickey Rooney and her were given amphetamine uppers to keep them alert during 18-hour work days and then sleeping pills at night. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Unclean water on PREDATOR They shot the 1987 movie in the jungles of Palenque, Mexico, and many of the cast and crew got sick with travelers' diarrhea because of the unpurified water. Kevin Peter Hall said, Predator wasn't a movie, it was a survival story for all of us. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED THE TERMINATOR filmed without a permit and poisoned the crew Since they didn't pay for permits, they snuck a lot of shots on L.A. streets. They didn't stop filming when pesticides were sprayed over the city, so the fog washing over the cast and crew was incredibly toxic. — Source

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A myriad of diseases on the set of SORCERER William Friedkin's 1977 thriller was shot in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic for 10 hellish months. Не lost 50 pounds and contracted malaria, and at least 50 cast and crew were evacuated from the set with malaria, food poisoning, gangrene, or other injuries. CRACKED — Source

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CRACKED Starvation on the set of RAPA NUI In 1994, Kevin Reynolds' passion project was filmed on Easter Island, in the Pacific. We had one flight a week from the mainland, and there were times we ran out of food to feed people, and things like that, it was...if was very bad. — Source

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CRACKED A hostile set made MELISSA MCCARTHY physically ill She said that she once worked with someone who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made her physically ill. My eyes were swelling up, | was absorbing all of this nuttiness. There were people weeping, visibly so upset by this one person. — Source

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CRACKED Death and snake venom on FITZCARRALDO In Werner Herzog's 1982 film, several indigenous extras were killed or injured. A logger was bit by a venomous snake, and had to cut off his own foot with a chainsaw to stop the poison from spreading. — Source

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Illegal filmmaking Easy Rider's drug use and knife fights, The drugs used on camera were real, and the cast and crew partook off-camera as well. Director Dennis Hopper also threatened actor Rip Torn with a knife, but claims Torn pulled a knife first. CRACKED — Source

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Illegal filmmaking Extras died in 1928's Noah's Ark. For the flood, cameraman Hal Mohr quit when director Michael Curtiz rolled his eyes at his safety concerns. Three extras died, another lost a limb, and a dozen suffered serious injuries, but Curtiz somehow escaped any legal repercussions. CRACKED — Source

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Illegal filmmaking Alfred Hitchcock terrorized actors and birds) on The Birds. Hitchcock pelted actress Tippi Hedren with live birds (injuring and killing the birds), and force-fed whisky to seagulls to get them to stay still for longer. Hedren was hospitalized, and he ruined her career when she refused his sexual advances. CRACKED — Source

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Alakina Mann The Others Mann had to stay indoors during daylight hours for the duration of the three-and-a-half-month shoot in order to remain pale. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wes Craven threatened to murder Drew Barrymore's dog. SCREAM GRACKED.COM In order to rile her up into the blubbering ball of fear she becomes, the director recounted acts of animal cruelty to her between takes, culminating in the graphic threat. — Source

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Sam Raimi injured and tortured Bruce Campbell for months. THE EVIL DEAD CRACKED.COM The whole cast was in the dark when it came to Raimi's practical effects, but Campbell took the brunt. For example, Raimi routinely re-sprained his ankle. — Source

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The actors were losing their minds, and their lunches. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE CRACKED.COM Conditions were hot, gross, and terrifying. Everyone was on edge all the time, and the cast routinely leaned out the window to puke during the dinner scene. — Source

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The cast was subject to constant psychological torture. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT CRACKED COM They were periodically told to pick fights with each other, while being stalked through the woods day and night by crew members. — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1983 TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE The tragic helicopter accident that killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors was just due to gross negligence from the higher-ups. The spooky-ass coincidence, though, is that Morrow got a $1 million life insurance in 1974 because, I have always had a premonition that I'll be killed in a helicopter crash. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2005 THE AMITYVILLE HORROR Before production for this remake began, a dead body washed up on set. During filming, Ryan Reynolds and the rest of the team would wake up at 3:15am, the same time around which Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed his family in the events that inspired the franchise. CRACKED.COM — Source

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