Loads of actors tolerate carrying uncomfortable costumes for the sake of their roles. Typically, they in all probability want they may say no — and in uncommon cases, they really do.
Listed below are 13 onscreen appears actors refused to put on or stop their roles over:
1.
When Scarlett Johansson was doing Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Marvel was fascinated with Black Widow “being a shape-shifter.” In 2021, she instructed Fatherly, “It is a actually humorous factor — the look is unbelievable and utilitarian. She first drives up on this lovely automotive and picks up Cap, and initially within the script, it was like, she arrives in her tennis whites, with a blonde wig. It was in a short time killed.”
2.
In his 2024 Selection’s Actors on Actors interview, Paul Mescal stated that when he first acquired the half in Gladiator II, he had “some ‘dodgy’ wig fittings.” He stated, “They have been huge. And it wasn’t to do with — we have been working with one of the best hair and make-up workforce on the planet. It was simply, I haven’t got a head for wigs.”
3.
Amanda Seyfried handed on the function of Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy as a result of she “was similar to, ‘Ah, I do not wanna be inexperienced. It is simply a lot work.'”
4.
In his 2023 memoir Pageboy, Elliot Web page stated that, earlier than popping out as trans in 2020, he turned down a “wanted” half in a e-book adaptation that will’ve required him to put on ladies’s interval clothes. He stated no to the function due to the destructive results it could have possible had on his psychological well being.
5.
Emma Watson labored with costume designer Jacqueline Durran to reimagine Belle’s iconic yellow ballgown for the live-action Magnificence and the Beast. The actor was staunchly in opposition to carrying a corset.
6.
In 2024, Courtney Thorne-Smith instructed the podcast Nonetheless the Place, that, in a film she filmed at 17, her 17-year-old character was scripted to sleep with an older man, then to put on “one in every of his button-down shirts afterwards.” Nonetheless, as a substitute of a button-down, she was allegedly given “a very attractive negligee” to put on. She felt “trapped,” and when she refused to put on it, a producer allegedly instructed her the crew was saying she was “being a child.”
7.
Virginia Hey performed Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan on Farscape from 1999-2002, however she “requested to depart as a result of the make-up was making [her] very sick.”
8.
In The Wizard of Oz, Buddy Ebsen was initially solid because the Tin Man. The costume was manufactured from stiff buckram material coated with leather-based. There was additionally quite a lot of aluminum mud, which reportedly triggered him to develop signs like aching muscle groups and shortness of breath. When the studio allegedly refused to consider he was really unwell, he needed to get a nurse to corroborate his claims. Solely 10 days into manufacturing, he wound up within the hospital for 2 weeks then recovered at dwelling for a month. So, he finally needed to drop out of the function.
9.
When Waheeda Rehman was filming the 1958 Hindi film Solva Saal, she allegedly “was given a dressing up that [she] didn’t need to put on” for a scene the place her character, Laaj, modified out of moist garments. In 2023, she instructed Radio Nasha, “The director stated, ‘If you’re not snug, then do not put on it, however whenever you come on the set, try to be pleased.’ So once I got here on the set, I wore what made me snug.”
10.
In keeping with the e-book The Monster Motion pictures of Common Studios, in Werewolf of London, the monster make-up that Jack Pierce designed for actor Henry Hull (who performed Dr. Wilfred Glendon) was initially extra animalistic. Nonetheless, Henry wished it to be extra human in order that the opposite characters may nonetheless acknowledge Dr. Glendon, because the script known as for.
11.
Julie Caitlin Brown performed Na’Toth on Babylon 5, however she left after Season 1 as a result of her “face was very sore from the make-up, and [she] was afraid there could be everlasting harm.”
12.
Gene Hackman reportedly refused to shave his head or put on a bald cap (for almost all of his scenes) to play the famously bald Lex Luthor in Superman (1978).
13.
And eventually, when Katharine Hepburn labored at RKO, she famously wore denims to set. When she returned to her dressing room after filming, she reportedly found her pants had been taken in a bid to make her put on a skirt. Reasonably than comply, she determined to return to set in her underwear till they gave again her denims.
Are there another costumes you’ve heard about actors refusing to put on? Tell us within the feedback!
