14 Bonkers Ways Famous Movies Affected The People Who Worked On Them
![14 Bonkers Ways Famous Movies Affected The People Who Worked On Them](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/4/785604_320x180.jpg)
Take a good look at the horror movies and reconsider whether you think violence, filth, blood and guts, and a whole bunch of floating corpses are the only disturbing things about them. Particularly when you consider bizarre situations that harmed those who engaged in them. Many of these productions were also marred by grim incidents, such as untimely deaths and strange accidents.
Artists take on certain roles for a variety of reasons. Maybe the price was right, the personality was intriguing, or the role could be a major break. However, a single job can occasionally devastate your life.
Look at a list of performers and the films that had a negative impact on their lives. Is it one of your favorite films on the list?
Sure, Jim Carrey's makeup for How the Grinch Stole Christmas was a harrowing experience... However, he demanded his makeup artist go to counseling as well. Here's the complete story, as well as 13 others:
![The Mauritanian made Benedict cumberbatch a campaigner against Guantanamo. He learned about the prison while making the movie, and it shocked him so much that he planned to speak to Joe Biden about it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/9/785599.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![Steven Spielberg says that Jaws left him with PTSD, and recovery took years. For years, he'd go to the Orca boat and sit there for hours, shaking even his hands would shake. That was his way of working through the trauma. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/1/785601.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![Jim Carrey's makeup artist on How the Grinch Stole Christmas had to go to therapy. Carrey was so mean and petty that the artist, Kazuhiro Tsuji, not only saw a therapist about it, he also had to take time off the movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/0/785600.jpg)
Source: IndieWire
![Billy Zabka learned karate while making The Karate kid, and he stuck with it. He became a second-degree green belt, and he's been training on and off ever since (he even got typecast as a karate guy for a while). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/2/785602.jpg)
Source: The Wrap
![Fifty Shades of Grey helped Jamie Dornan walk much better than before Before, he walked on tip-toes, which people sometimes commented on but, during dance lessons for the movie, he learned how to walk heel-to-toe. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/3/785603.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![Inception strengthened Joseph Gordon-Levitt's connection to his dreams. He's always wanted to be able to have a lucid dream, and the closest he ever came to that was while he was working on Inception. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/1/785591.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![Christian Bale's butt fell out because he'd starved himself for The Machinist. He'd lost so much body fat, he started losing muscle elasticity-- which meant the muscles of his ass dropped out of their sockets. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/3/785593.jpg)
Source: GeekTyrant
![Who Framed Roger Rabbit? messed up Bob Hoskins long after filming ended. He kept hallucinating things around him because, over eight months, he'd trained himself to see cartoons that weren't really there. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/4/785594.jpg)
Source: Express.co.uk
![Five of the six original Avengers (all except Mark Ruffalo) got matching tattoos., Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, RDJ, Jeremy Renner, all got one - then, says RDJ, they just bullied Chris Hemsworth into getting one too. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/8/785598.jpg)
Source: People
![Bill Skarsgard started dreaming about Pennywise the clown after he'd filmed It. I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in, he said, and playing Pennywise was just like being in a very destructive relationship. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/7/785597.jpg)
Source: Entertainment Weekly
![George Clooney hurt his head SO bad on Syriana, his memory didn't work right. He hit his head when he fell from a chair, and had to retrain his memory to work right again. For a while, he even had to write his lines on bits of paper. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/0/785590.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![China banned Brad Pitt from crossing its borders, because of Seven Years In Tibet. Apparently, though, they kind of relaxed that rule years later-- they let him in 2014, and again in 2016, both for promotional events. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/5/785595.jpg)
Source: Interview Magazine
![James Cromwell (Farmer Hoggett in Babe) went vegan because of Babe. He was already a vegetarian, but the movie made him a hardcore vegan for example, years later, he got arrested at an animal rights protest. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/6/785596.jpg)
Source: VICE
![Shia LaBeouf's co-star in the movie Peanut Butter Falcon changed his life. LaBeouf got arrested after heavy drinking, and only Zack Gottsagen wasn't judging him -- he just asked LaBeouf not to fuck up his only chance. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/2/785592.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter