7 Worst Things That Actresses Were Forced To Do

Directors created some outrageous scenarios that will shock you.

We all enjoy movies, especially the ones which interest us.

The journey of our favorite character through the film brings that amazing indescribable feeling that we all love. However, sometimes to provide us with notable experience, directors take extreme measures.

For some roles in Hollywood the directors become close to dictators. Let’s divert our focus on some of the most extreme measures taken by directors, where they would simply force the actors for one thing or the other.

1. Kate Winslet, Almost Drowned In Titanic

Titanic is undoubtedly one of the most emotional and very close-to-heart movies of all times. Especially the ending — it will never be forgotten by anyone who has watched the movie.

However, the scene in which Kate and Leonardo were running down the flooded corridor was the one that took the best of Kate.

The coat Kate was wearing got caught on-to something and nearly drowned her.

James Cameron, thinking long term, was confident that Kate would not drown, so he kept filming for another scene. This continued until Kate herself couldn’t take it anymore.

2. Judy Garland Became Drug Addicted After ‘The Wizard of Oz’

Louis B. Mayer do owns a reputation of assaulting the females leads of his movies, something which he did in The Wizard of Oz too.

This director truly crossed his boundaries when he forced Judy Garland, sixteen at that time, to consume sleeping pills as well as pep pills to make the film appear real.

More over, he also gave her pills for weight control, making Garland depended on it the entire life.

3. Adele & Lea Were Mentally & Physically Challenged

Blue Is The Warmest Color did succeed in getting applauds and appreciations — a powerful movie which took a deep dive on identity, love and sexuality through LGBTQ+ lens.

The movie explored passion thus the actresses had hard time working with the director like Kechiche. He not only physically but mentally exhausted them by shooting a six-minute love scene over sixty times.

Moreover to get the authenticity and the desired shot, the director actually made the actresses smoke and drink for numerous takes.

4. Janet Leigh, Can’t Take Shower Any More Thanks To Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

This is an example of how some movies change an artist’s life. In this case, the shower scene not only changed Janet Leigh’s life but also ruined her married life.

In the movie, Janet steals a tremendous amount of money from her boss and flees; however, due to the bad weather, she decides to stay in a motel, where the real psychotic stuff begins.

The scene that changed everything was when Janet took that tragic Shower, where she was jabbed with a kitchen knife.

The location ended in a few minutes and took an entire week to fill and perfect.

The perfection took peace away from Janet, and she couldn’t even take a shower anymore, which she confessed in an interview she gave in 1995. Furthermore, she had to face the door if she ever went in for a bath.

5. John Landis, Movie Version Of The Twilight Zone

Landis is one of the hottest young directors of the 80s, and his masterpieces include An American Werewolf In London, Trading Places, and The Blue Brother.

Everything was good until 1983 when Landis Joined the crew of a movie version of The Twilight Zone, a classic TV series.

Landis started the shooting with a veteran actor Vic Morrow, a partisan who got a severe lesson by finding himself as everything from a black man hunted by Klan to a Jew living under the Nazi regime in Germany.

Most of the movie was shot with ease. However, things just went south when filming of the final started. A scene in which Morrow had to save two Vietnamese children during the Vietnam war and return home a wiser man.

Landis being Landis, he wanted something that would have a crazy impact on people, so he had a complete mock-up helicopter equipped with rotating rotor blades along with Morrow and two allegedly illegally hired children.

Landis ignored all the warnings from the technicians and ordered the heli to be lowered, knowing that things could get ugly — and they did get worst.

As soon as the explosions went off, the rig carrying the mock-up heli failed, and it crashed, killing Morrow and the children instantly.

Landis was put on trial after the incident. However, he was not found guilty. The incident impacted Landis, and he didn’t direct any major movies due to his trauma after the incident.

The desire to make things look fabulous for the audience went a bit too far in this case.

6. Tobe Hooper’s, Stinking, Scorching, and Rotten Massacre

The reason that fans of horror movies still admire the Texas Chainsaw Massacre to date is probably that the actual shoot of the film was nothing less than horror itself.

One of many reasons was its budget which was only 140,000 US Dollars, and with limited amounts of money, it was Impossible for Hooper to afford luxuries such as fans on set.

This meant the crew and the cast had to film in Texas in the middle of July, with temperatures reaching well over 110 degrees.

Hooper also had to control his spending on new outfits, so he made the cast wear the same clothes repeatedly, even while they had sweat stains all over them.

One of the main scenes of the movie was the climactic dinner, and for this scene, the windows were blocked, which meant the temperature went well above 120 degrees for the set, which lasted for 27 hours straight.

The prop food only worsened things because it rotted quickly in such an environment and made the place stink well beyond the border of Texas.

However, Hooper loved all this and felt that all this chaos gave the scene more energy and depth.

The actor who played the leather face was so lost behind his mask that he thought he was going to kill Marilyn Burns for real.

The guy unfolded his actual feeling as he sliced Burns’s finger for real, but Hooper just ignored all this because for him it looked perfect.

The movie became a hit, but it left Hooper lonely. He admitted that for years none of the cast members talked to him for giving them such a horrible experience.

7. Gene Kelly, Bleeding Feet Due To Excessive Dancing

Gene Kelly was one of the most incredible dancers the film industry has ever seen, Kelly was a true perfectionist, and anything less was just not for him.

Kelly was obsessed with dancing and was used to practicing for 18 hours a day. His problems began with Debbie when he expected her to work as hard.

Debbie was made to practice so much that her feet started to bleed. Debbie was refused if she asked to take time off, and every time she did, she was yelled at.

However, Kelly realized he was being a bit too harsh towards Debbie Reynolds on the set of Singin’ in the Rain.

Final Words

Sometimes in the pursuit of perfection, directors tend to go way over the red line, not worrying about the life of their crew or their own.

Hoping that one day things will change for better, but this would require a fight with ideologies like capitalism — which at least to me seems impossible.

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