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Did you know that Dallas Buyers Club only had a $250 make up budget? The film's crew was able to work with that, and actually ended up winning the Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling

For the 2007 comedy Superbad, director Greg Mottola found out that Blueray DVDs allowed up to a 1-hour video before looping in the main menu. And thus, in hilarious fashion he had star Michael Cera In Interstellar, Christopher Nolan and his crew actually grew five hundred acres of corn for the cornfield chase scene.

Saw X was so gruesome that one of the editors actually got the cops called on him? Director Kevin Gruetert recalled that his first assist editor Steve actually had the cops called on him because the neighbors heard the gut-wrenching sound of screams and other torture noises. The cops pulled up and asked what was going on, for which he replied “I’m working on a movie, want to come in and see?”

In the Martian, Matt Damon admitted that the scene where Mark was getting emotional upon hearing Commander Lewis' voice was genuine. The other actors had wrapped and gone home, and their pre-recorded voices were actually being played to Damon from inside his spacesuit.

Tom Hanks was not paid for his role in Forest Gump. However, he instead ended up taking percentage points which ultimately netted him in the region of forty million dollars. It's explained in the DVD commentary that Ulrich had open-heart surgery when he was a kid and that, while filming a scene the umbrella missed the protective vest Ulrich was wearing and hit him right in the old surgery wound. Ouch

For Black Swan, Natalie Portman trained for a year as a dancer to prepare for the role. This was all done out of her own pocket before the film had even found its investors. Aronofsky credits the creation of the film to her dedication.

In Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone wanted the boxing scenes to look as realistic as possible, which is why he instructed his co-start Dolp Lundgren to actually hit him. This would eventually leave Stallone in intensive care for 4 days after a punch to the chest.
In the original Die Hard, Hans Gruber’s reaction and shock as he falls from the window is totally totally real — Alan Rickman was told he’d be dropped after counting down to zero, but they did it on one instead.

Both Leonardo Dicaprio and Jonah hill actually snorted crushed B vitamins for the scenes involving cocaine. Hill eventually became so sick from inhaling the vitamins that he developed bronchitis and had to go to the hospital.

Jon Heder was only paid $1,000 to play the iconic lead character in Napoleon Dynamite. The movie went on to gross over $40,000,000 in the United States

On Avatar, director James Cemrson was allegedly so tough on set that he kept a nail gun armed and ready. He would nail cast and crew members’ cell phones to the wall if they happen to ring on set, yikes.

During Mother! Jennifer Lawrence got so much into her character that during the climactic scenes, she started hyperventilating and even cracked a rib. After filming the scene in which Jennifer Lawrence hyperventilated the crew had the idea to make Lawrence her very own "happy place"--a tent complete with gumballs and clips of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” on loop.

For the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp. Nestle provided 1,850 bars of real chocolate to be used on the film.

For the Dark Knight, Heath Ledger hid away in a motel room for 6 weeks to prepare for the role of Joker. During this time of isolation, he dived deep into the psychology of the character as well as practiced nailing the iconic laugh we here in the film.

During the making of Toy Story 2, a specific code was entered into the master machine where the animated film was being worked it. It ended up deleting 90% of the movie.

In Pulp Fiction, the scene where Mia has an overdose scene and has to get injected with a needle was actually filmed backward. Using clever movie magic, the crew had Travolta throw his hand up from her chest rather than the other way around.

Did you know that in the 2021 Disney spin-off Cruella, Emma Stone had to ditch the title character's signature cigarette holder (along with the cigarette) when she starred as the classic Disney villain

In Joker, Joaquin Phoenix lost 52 pounds to play the role of Arthur Fleck. Joaquin Phoenix consulted with the same doctor who helped him lose weight for his performance in The Master.

Christian Bale drew inspiration from a popular actor for his role in American Psycho. Bale explained that he was inspired by Tom Cruise, particularly in an interview he had with David Letterman

OJ Simpson was nearly cast as the Terminator, He was considered for the iconic role but ironically, James Cameron found him to be too pleasant to portray a murdering robot from the future.