Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Margot Robbie in I, Tonya

Margot Robbie has no problem embracing hysteria—see Harley Quinn a la Suicide Squad or Birds of Prey—but she had difficulty portraying Tonya Harding, the figure skater whose involvement with Nancy Kerrigan's assault destroyed her career. Robbie needed weekly MRI scans after herniating a disc in her neck, but Robbie's physical health was far from her main concern. Robbie became so enmeshed with Harding's persona that she had difficulty establishing fiction from reality.

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The More You Know

Steven Spielberg pops up for a cameo in Vanilla Sky wearing a Pre-Crime baseball cap.
Jackie Chan voiced the Beast in the Chinese dub of The Beauty And The Beast.
In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military training except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment towards him necessary for the role.
There’s a 20 year age gap between Sam Neill and Laura Dern in Jurassic Park, with Laura aged only 26 during filming.

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