Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Hopkins took home an Academy Award for Best Actor, but behind the scenes, he nowhere near as cool or collected as his performance had made him seem. On the final day of shooting, Hopkins approached Foster, who had a tear in her eye. She said, "I was really scared of you," to which he replied, "I was really scared of you!" Turns out that everything isn't what it appears to be on the silver screen.

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The More You Know

  • The Candyman, played by Tony Todd, had to put real bees into his mouth to film the movie’s climax.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio did not do the drawing in ‘Titanic’
  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • Peter O’Toole was nominated for eight performance Oscars and didn’t win a single one.
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