Actors Who Were Traumatized By Their Most Intense Roles

The Shining

Duvall was forced to cry so often that she kept a water bottle off-screen at all times, which helped her stay hydrated. Her hair was falling out in clumps. Kubrick didn't care though, he even made her do 127 takes of the baseball bat scene. Jack Nicholson said that she was given "the toughest job that any actor I've seen had, because 40% of that movie, she's hysterical."

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The More You Know

  • "E.T." and "Poltergeist" started from the same script.
  • In the first draft of the Back to the Future screenplay, the time machine wasn't a Delorean, it was a refrigerator.
  • The filming of 'The Godfather' was disrupted by an actual Mafia member, Joe Colombo. Producer Al Ruddy met with him and reviewed the script, striking the word "Mafia" completely from the movie. Colombo and his pals also managed to elbow their way into casting and ended up as extras in the film.
  • They designed E.T.'s face by combining Albert Einstein, Carl Sandburg and a pug dog.
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