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If I told you to think of a food from a TV show or movie, you’d probably imagine something that looked so delicious, you could almost taste it through the screen.
However, not every onscreen food is meant to make your salivate — and they’re not always super pleasant to eat IRL, either.
Here are 13 super gross foods actors had to eat on set:
1.While filming theOldboyscene where his character eats a live octopus, Choi Min-sikreportedlyconsumed four live octopi — despite the fact that he’s vegetarian.
Watch the scene below:
2.In theNight of the Living Deadscene where the zombies feast after a truck explosion, the “human remains” weremadeof ham and sheep organs — courtesy of an investor who was also the owner of a meatpacking plant — doused in chocolate syrup.
To make thing wilder , a wad of the zombies were n’t even professional actors . Production could n’t get enough extra , so they recruited work party members , investors , friends , and even random bystanders .
Investor / co - screenwriter John A. Russo toldNewsweek , " Our commercial-grade clients surprise us , because they were straight up - and - down , suit - and - tie people , I mean , they were ultra - conservative . But some of the advert factor presidents were the ones sting into thoseanimalparts . "
3.In the first season ofGame of Thrones, the stallion heart thatEmilia Clarkeate was actually made of solidified jam. However, she thought it “tasted like bleach and raw pasta,” and she had to eat about 28 of them over the duration of the shoot.
She enjoin theMirror , " It was very helpful to be given something so truly disgusting to consume , so there was n’t much play want … as luck would have it , they gave me a spit pail because I was vomit in it quite often . "
4.The blue milk thatMark Hamilldrank inStar Wars: A New Hopewas “warm, oily, [and] sickly-sweet.” OnTwitter, he described it as “gag-inducing.”
liken the flick milk to the interpretation sold in Disney Parks , he said , " This frosty non - dairy drink smack like a yummy yield smoothie . "
5.Nicolas Cage asked director Robert Bierman to let him eat a cockroach forVampire’s Kissbecause they’re the thing he hates “most in the world.” Production consulted a doctor, who advised them to “have him drink some whiskey right after.” So, the actor washed his mouth out with 100-proof vodka between takes.
Robert told theRinger , " He require to eat the most horrific thing for him . I retrieve , ' This is terrific ! ' I sent my prop multitude down into the boiler elbow room … They brought me a box , divided up into little sections with tissue composition . The cockroaches were there , line up for me to cast . I think they ’re really scream water system bugs — they ’re expectant than cockroach . "
6.InThe Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, the fish that Andy Serkis bit into during his transformation from Smeagol to Gollum was made of gelatin, which “in all honesty tasted more disgusting than biting into a raw fish.”
He toldTheOneRing.net , " They made a few gelatin model which I had to sting into … I would rather have exhaust a unsanded fish . "
7.For the cannibalism scene inYellowjacketsSeason 2, the actorsatefake human meat made from “slimy” jackfruit and rice paper off a prosthetic body. It smelled “rubbery.”
It was so sicken that Samantha Hanratty honk .
You catch the scene below (but be warned it’s very gross):
8.The fish that Danny DeVito ate inBatman Returnswas a raw bluefish. Plenty of people eat raw fish in sushi, but what made his experience nasty was the fact that “in the middle of the action, [he] would squeeze a mixture of mouthwash and spirulina into [his] mouth.”
He differentiate theDaily Telegraph , " But that was because I needed to ooze this green , kind of fateful thickish liquid out of the corners . "
9.The worms that Christian Bale ate inRescue Dawnwere real maggots.
He toldCollider , " They were very literal . I did n’t mind eating the maggots , but I just wanted to make certain about where the maggots had come from . Where did they find those maggots ? "
10.InSpawn, John Leguizamo ate pizza covered in real maggots because he thought “it’s not going to have the same effect when you cut to something [plastic] and they’re not moving.”
He toldCBR , " I ate the maggots , and it was disgusting , and I only did one take . I sound out , ' I ’m not doing any repeats so you well get this horseshit right because if I ’m out of focus , fuck you , I ’m leave . ' "
11.While filming the episode ofFriendswith Rachel’s infamous beef trifle, the actors were actually eating bananas and whipped cream. It wasn’t gross for anyone except Matt LeBlanc, who accidentally ate some of the “trifle” David Schwimmer had spit out after a previous take.
Matt toldThe Graham Norton Show , " There was too much on his denture . So he starts to eat on it all and he starts laughing , and we cut . We ’re cut , and he spit it back on his plate . I ’m sitting mighty next to him , and I ’m look the other style . I did n’t see him spit it back on his plate . So , I take his plate … and I grate some on my denture … We go again , and now I ’m eating it . We stop the take . No one enunciate anything to me . "
12.ForThe Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio ate raw bison liver.
He toldYahoo , " When you see the movie , you ’ll see my reaction to it because Alejandro [ G. Iñárritu , the music director ] go on it in . It says it all . It was an instinctive reaction . "
Watch the clip below:
13.And finally, Leo wasn’t the first actor to eat raw liver on camera. ForRosemary’s Baby, Mia Farrow alsoateraw liver (though it wasn’t bison), despite being a vegetarian.
In her memoirWhat Falls Away , Mia Farrow wrote , " When Roman [ Polanski , the director ] want me to eat raw liver , I use up it , take after take . "
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