‘It was so embarrassing’: 30 times things went wrong on set
While working on her Oscar-winning biopic Judy, Renée Zellweger had an awkward mishap while filming a kissing scene.
When she and her co-star Finn Wittrock locked lips, Zellweger’s prosthetic nose broke and oozed glue, which went onto Wittrock’s face.
“I did not know until this kissing scene and I look at him with horror and I realise, ‘Am I more upset that I got that on his face – and we haven’t cut so I can’t be touching his face in a way to try and get it off – or that it’s attached to my head and there’s so much more where that came from?'” said Zellweger.
“The glue and the thing and the chemicals or something, I don’t know, and some of it would just sneak out the crevice [on the side].”
Zellweger is not alone in experiencing mishaps on film and TV sets. Sometimes they are hilarious – and other times, they are just plain embarrassing, or even dangerous.
The incidents can range from falling asleep during a sex scene, to knocking out a co-star.
It's no surprise that sex scenes are a breeding ground for mishaps, such as when actors are forced to film uncomfortable scenes while wearing a modesty patch or sock to hide their body parts. Even in a time where intimacy coorindators are a regular presence on set, things don’t always go exactly to plan.
Here are some of the biggest on-set mishaps in film and TV:
Margot Robbie – The Wolf of Wall Street
The actor says that acting in the scene where she has sex with Leonardo DiCaprio on a bed of money was really painful in “I got a million paper cuts on my back from all that money! It’s not as glamorous as it sounds,” she said. “If anyone is ever planning on having sex on top of a pile of cash: don’t. Or maybe real money is a bit softer, but the fake money is like paper, and when
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