Do you know which famous actors cried on set due to intense behavior from their co star or directors? If you want to know which directors and co stars made actors cry on set then read this article. We have listed 13 such actors who cried on set due to their co stars and directors’ intense behavior.
13 Times Actors Cried On Set Due To Intense Behaviors FromCostars Or Directors
Here are 13 such actors who cried on set due to their co stars and directors’ intense behavior.
1. Millie Bobby Brown
In Stranger Things Season 4, Millie Bobby Brown cried after seeing Jamie Cambell Bower in his Vecna get up for the first time. She was so scared that throughout the whole shooting she refused to look at him. Initially she did not know it was him until he made it obvious.
Jamie Cambell told Variety magazine, “She wouldn’t look at me, and she was visibly just disgusted by the whole thing… After she cried and I made it obvious that she knew it was me, one of the things she said was that, ‘I knew it was you when I could smell cigarettes,’ because I’m a smoker.”
2. Austin Butler
On the first day of filming the movie Elvis, Austin Butler went home in tears. The director of the movie, Baz Luhrmann hired several RCA execs to heckle Austin by making them sit in front of Austin.
Later Austin told a magazine during movie promotions, “when we were filming this moment when Elvis first goes on stage and he’s getting heckled by the audience, I knew what that felt like.”
3. Amy Adams
Davis O. Russell, director of the American Hustle made Amy Adams cry several times during the shooting of the movie. In an interview with British magazine GQ Adams said, “He was hard on me, that’s for sure. It was a lot.. I was really just devastated on set.”
4. Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore’s co-star in Music and Lyrics, Hugh Grant made her cry during the shooting of the movie. The reason for making her cry was given by Grant on The Graham Norton Show, “She made the mistake of giving me notes,” explained Hugh.
5. Bill Skarsgard
In the movie ‘It’ Bill Skarsgard played the character of Pennywise made several extras cry and be terrified of him in his Pennywise get up. According to the crew on the set in the get up of Pennywise, Skarsgard “wasn’t very friendly or goofy.”
In an interview Skarsgard said, “I realized, ‘Holy shit. What am I doing? What is this? This is horrible.’ … But then we cut, and obviously, I was all, ‘Hey, I’m sorry. This is pretend.'”
6. Katleen Turner
Burt Reynolds made Katleen Turner cry during the filming of the movie, Switching Channels. Reynolds commented on women being second to men which made working with him uncomfortable for Turner.
She told her experience to a well-known magazine, “Working with Burt Reynolds was terrible… His behavior was shocking. It never occurred to me that I wasn’t someone’s equal. I left the room sobbing. I called my husband and said, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ He said, ‘You just do the job.’ It got to be very hostile because the crew began taking sides. But as for the performance, I was able to put the negativity aside. I’m not convinced Burt was.”
7. Chloe Grace Moretz
An unknown actor in his 20s told Chloe Grace Moretz, “I’d never date you in real life… Yeah, you’re too big for me.” This comment made her cry.
Sharing the incident Moretz told Variety, “I went bawling to my brother, and he was like, ‘What happened?’ And I was like, ‘He told me I was too big.’ And my brother was like, ‘What just happened?’ My brother was so angry. I had to pick it up and go back on set and pretend he was a love interest, and it was really hard… It just makes you realize that there are some really bad people out there, and for some reason, he felt the need to say that to me. You have to kind of forgive and not forget really, but it was just like wow. It was jarring. I look back on it, and I was 15, which is really, really dark.”
8. Adam Sandler Made A Little Boy Cry
Adam Sandler in the Billy Madison throwing ball scene actually hit a kid on the set “pretty hard” that made the kid cry. Parents of the kids on set were upset with him and complained to him.
Adam shared on Conan show, “The parents all come up to me. ‘Hey, what’s the deal?’ And I say, ‘What do you mean? What happened?’ They’re like, ‘The kid. You nailed that kid.’ I go, ‘No, no, no, that’s the scene. I’m supposed to… I’m like a big guy [who] went back to school. I am supposed to plug all these kids. It’s part of the joke.’ And they were like, ‘No, no, no.’ And I was like, ‘What are you talking about?… Did they read the script?’ They go, ‘They’re 6. They don’t read yet.'”
9. Elizabeth Aldrich
Lea Michele made her understudy, Elizabeth Aldrich cry in Ragtime on Broadway. Aldrich said, “She (Lea) was absolutely awful to me and [the] ensemble. She demeaned the crew and threatened to have people fired if she was in any way displeased… She was terrifying.”
10. Gaby Hoffmann
While filming the movie The Man Without A Face, director/actor Mel Gibson made then-11-year-old, Gaby Hoffmann cry.
11. Ellen Latzen
Ellen Latzen was 6 years old when she acted on Fatal Attraction and could not cry on cue during the scene when her parents were fighting. So Michael Douglas said to her, “Look at that stupid unicorn. I’m going to throw it in the garbage,” and shouted at her to make her cry.
12. Justin Henry cried Because Of David Hoffman
David Hoffman while filming the movie Kramer vs. Kramer exploited the emotions of the little child actor, Justin Henry to make him cry. He told the child different sad scenarios in his life like his dog dying to bring out emotions for the movie.
13. Daniel Radcliffe
Gary Oldman who played Sirius Black on the famous movie franchise Harry Potter made Daniel Radcliff who played Harry Potter in the movie cry. Daniel couldn’t get into the character of Harry Potter after the death of Sirius in the movie so Gary shook him and screamed at him to make him cry.
In an MTV interview Daniel said, “It’s kind of hard to find that level when you’re 15. But he came up to me and said, ‘Do you mind if we get a bit intense?’ And then he came toward me. I thought he was going to hold me, but he shook me and screamed at me! So hard that when he let me go, I almost fell. I wanted to go crawl up in a fetal position. And then he said, ‘Throw your head back and scream.’ And it worked.”
Conclusion
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