15 Big Movies That Vexed Their Stars
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Does your job involve extreme physical and/or psychological discomfort? Who are we kidding, unless you’re a billionaire whose job is “sit on a boat and consume fine dining,” your job is almost certainly torturous in some way. And we won’t kid ourselves about our audience—you’re probably reading this while hiding in a bathroom before going to get yelled at by either your boss or some jerk with a complaint about their burrito order, even though you made it to their exact specifications.
We should have asked instead, are you paid millions of dollars to suffer at your job? Because these actors totally were at some point! From near-death experiences to mildly irritating coworkers, these actors had to suffer the range of shitty job experience we all do…while getting rich and famous. You sure feel sorry for them now, don’t you? See, being a famous movie star isn’t a cushy job…
If you want to know about some big movies that put their stars through absolute torture, scroll down below!
![THE HEAT GAVE SCARLETT JOHANSSON HALLUCINATIONS. The Avengers The Avengers was shot in Albuquerque, NM, not exactly a place known for its cool weather. For Johansson, wrapped as she was in a tight, rubbery outfit, the heat got so intense that she started hallucinating while filming a fight scene.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/7/779647.jpg)
Source: ABC News
![THE FAKE MUD CHILLED ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO THE BONE. Predator The pottery clay Arnold was covered with lowered his body temperature. Heat lamps dried the clay out, and trying to drink the cold away made him drunk. The only thing he could do was just grab onto something to control the shivering while the camera was running.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/5/779655.jpg)
![TOMMY LEE JONES COULDN'T STAND JIM CARREY. Batman Forever Jones played Two-Face because his son was a big Batman fan-but he wasn't happy at all to work with Carrey. I hate you, Jones reportedly told Carrey. I really don't like you. In the end, it's a touching story about how Jones loves his son more than he despises Jim Carrey.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/2/779652.jpg)
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![MALCOLM McDOWELL HAD HIS CORNEAS PAINFULLY SCRATCHED. A Clockwork Orange An anaesthetic was applied to McDowell's eyes for the aversion therapy scenes- but as was usual with Kubrick, the shooting took forever, and the effect wore off. I was in such pain I was banging my head against a wall, McDowell has said.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/9/779649.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
![MICHAEL J. FOX WAS HANGED FOR REAL. Back to the Future Part III During one of the takes of the hanging scene, Fox missed his hand placement on the noose and was really strung up by his neck. He passed out and hanged there until someone noticed that the movie's star was dying in front of everyone.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/2/779642.jpg)
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![MARGOT ROBBIE CHOKED ON PAINT TO BECOME HARLEY QUINN. Suicide Squad That might not be real acid Robbie dove into, but she hated it all the same. It was like this gluggy paint stuff that was so far in my ears and up my nose, and I was choking on it underwater, and I couldn't breathe. She called it the most unpleasant thing I've ever done.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/4/779654.jpg)
Source: The Washington Post
![HUMPHREY BOGART AND INGRID BERGMAN WANTED OUT REAL BAD. Casablanca With the script changing every day and the director being a shouty a-hole, both leads kept trying to find a way out. Casablanca turning out to be a masterpiece was a big surprise for the people who'd made the damn thing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/3/779653.jpg)
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![BRAD PITT WAS UTTERLY MISERABLE. Interview with the Vampire At first, Pitt was excited about playing Louis the vampire. Then he learned that all the juicy bits had been given to Tom Cruise's Lestat, leaving him with nothing to do except to be sad and blink painfully in a drafty mausoleum.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/1/779651.jpg)
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![DIANE KRUGER WAS STRANGLED BY THE DIRECTOR. Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino feared that Christoph Waltz wouldn't strangle Kruger the right way, so it's Tarantino's own hands you see in close ups. And he actually strangled her, cutting off the actress' air on purpose to get her reaction on camera.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/5/779645.jpg)
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![CHRISTOPHER LEE WAS GUILT-TRIPPED INTO KEEPING PLAYING DRACULA. Hammer's Dracula movies Lee wanted out after a couple movies, feeling that he was only a living prop. Then Hammer co-founder James Carreras told him, Think of all the people you're putting out of work. This emotional blackmail crap worked, and Lee kept on doing movies he hated.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/0/779650.jpg)
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![THE ACTORS HAD TO WORK IN FREEZING COLD TEMPERATURES. The Exorcist To make the characters' breath visible during the exorcism, the full set was refrigerated to the point that the crew had to wear winter coats. It can't have been too fun for Linda Blair in her nightgown.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/3/779643.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![THE PRODUCTION WAS HELL FOR THE ENTIRE CAST AND CREW. Apocalypse Now I don't know if I'm going to live through this, Martin Sheen said at one point- then went and had a heart attack. Director Francis Ford Coppola had a nervous breakdown and epileptic seizures after that. And have we mentioned the typhoon and the tropical diseases? Fun times!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/8/779648.jpg)
Source: The Independent
![SHOOTING THE ALIEN C-SECTION GAVE NOOMI RAPACE NIGHTMARES. Prometheus Rapace spent four days crying and screaming inside that coffin-machine thing, trying to make the horrifying scene as real as possible. It messed me up completely, she said afterwards. She got nightmares SO bad that she'd wake up crying at night.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/1/779641.jpg)
Source: Wired
![The Hobbit The Dwarves got covered in real fish. No CGI or props in this scene -- those are actual fish, with all the attendant smell and nastiness. The actors got stinking juice everywhere, and could barely breathe with such a load of fish on top of them. To make matters worse, one of them actually had a phobia of fish.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/4/779644.gif)
Source: Daily Dragon Online
![BOB HOSKINS CALLED PLAYING MARIO AF ING NIGHTMARE. super Mario Bros The movie was even worse for Hoskins than it was for the audience. It had a husband-and- wife team directing whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent, he said in an interview. F-ing nightmare. F-ing idiots.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/6/779646.jpg)
Source: The Guardian