10 Surprising Times Actors Were Actually Drunk Or High While Filming A Scene For A Movie

In an interview with Chelsea Handler further Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Joey revealed that she grabbed an edible right before the boardwalk scene where her character Elle confronts her best friend Lee.

She got the edible from her co-star Taylor Zakhar Perez, who offered it to her. He also took one because he had no more scenes to shoot.

Joey explained, “I got so badly high.” She added, “You know, when you’re really high you just know how to say, ‘I’m so high’? There I’ve been.”

In one of the scenes in the film, Margot had to stand in a doorway completely naked, and she was scared. “I came into work that morning shaking, so scared, like, ‘I can’t do this,'” she said.

A crew member gave her tequila at 9 a.m. to calm her nerves. Margot said: “I did three takes and then I got undressed and did the scene and I was fine.

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Gunnar Hansen, who notably portrayed Leatherface, revealed in his memoir how high he got on weed during filming Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

In his book Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made The World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie Gunnar shared that the man who owned this house they were filming in was growing weeds in his field and that the cast and crew were taking advantage of it.

One of the editors even made weed brownies, which they ate before filming the last few scenes, including dangerous stunts.

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Josh Duhamel accidentally smoked a real joint while filming spaceman.

One of the scenes involved Bill Spaceman, played by Josh, smoking a joint. Josh shared, “The truth is, on the first day, the first take of the film, I was rolling a joint. They usually make fake weed but nobody told me it was real weed. So I smoked it and for the next few hours, I was high and wasn’t supposed to be.”

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Michael Rapaport had to be sedated while filming a scene true romance.

In the film, Michael had to be in a scene where two other characters were making a drug deal on a roller coaster. Rapaport said: “I don’t like roller coasters. They had to convince me to ride it and I threw up, so we had to shoot again a week later. The second time they sedated me. Some shots have me smiling because, “I’m stunned to death, and some shots have me crying because I honestly thought I was shitting.”

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Wesley Snipes reportedly smoked weed the entire time we were filming Blade: Trinity.

Wesley’s costar Patton Oswalt recalled that Wesley was often high. “Wesley was just freaking crazy in a hilarious way. He didn’t come out of his trailer and he smoked weed all day. Which is fine with me because I had all these DVDs that I wanted to catch up on. We were in Vancouver and it was always raining. I left the door to my trailer open to smell the evening rain while I watched a movie.”

In the film, Billy played an alcoholic burglar and spent a few days actually drinking as a form of method acting.

Billy said he was drunkest in the scene where his character has a drunken meltdown at the mall. Billy started the day with three glasses of vodka and cranberry juice and then some Bud Lights. “When I got to that scene there, I hardly knew I was in a movie,” he said.

The movie was about a craft brewery, so it contained a lot of scenes where the characters were drinking beer. Olivia shared that the beer was actually real in many of those scenes.

Olivia said, “We got hammered the whole movie because it was real beer, because beer was cheaper than water on that set because we were shooting in a brewery.”

Anna also said: “During a scene where I’m playing cards with Jake (Johnson), they gave me real beer and I didn’t realize it! I didn’t realize it was real until halfway through the shot. I was like, ‘I’m super drunk right now!’ She added, “It was okay for part of the film and it worked in the scene, so it was helpful to her. But mostly I found it really annoying.”

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Much of the cast of Dazed and confused was high during filming.

The film’s director, Richard Linklater, said of the film, “It wasn’t real marijuana, although the cast admits to being stoned in several scenes, especially at the very end.”

Ben Affleck said his colleagues, including Matthew McConaughey, smoked weed and drank heavily during filming, although he didn’t take part himself.

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And finally, Denise Richards and Neve Campbell shared margaritas before filming a kissing scene wild things.

In Denise’s memoirs real girl next door Denise said the producers asked her if she was okay with actually tongue-kissing Neve instead of faking the kiss. Denise agreed and to prepare for the kiss, she wrote: “Neve and I went to her trailer and shared a pitcher of margaritas before filming the scene. Neither of us had ever kissed another girl. … Everyone has a first time.”