Let’s get into a little bit of Hollywood lore here and learn about some pretty cool instances of when things ended up in movies that were not only not in the script, they weren’t close to part of the plan.
I just love happy accidents, don’t you?!?! Let’s take a look. And if you know of any others, please share them in the comments with us.
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1. “Give me the keys Rose!” in Get Out.
Photo Credit: Blumhouse
“In an interview, Daniel Kaluuya revealed that there was actually a good amount of improvisation in Get Out, especially in the scene with the major plot twist:
“I couldn’t do that scene the way it was scripted, really. That was something that we kind of made up. When he was asking Rose to give me the keys, all that stuff was made up in a day. It just felt natural because what was scripted didn’t feel right in the space it was in, and Jordan [Peele] allowed us to do that. He was open enough to see that.”
2. A little tear from The Joker.
Photo Credit: Warner Bros.
Director Todd Phillips said that he played the film’s score for Joaquin Phoenix because he “wanted the music to affect and infect the set in a way.”
During the first take as the score was playing, Philipps revealed that “as Joaquin is struggling with Arthur’s smile, this little tear appears, and we just had the scene and we moved on.”
3. “Oscar shit” in Baby Driver.
Photo Credit: Sony Pictures
Apparently Edgar Wright doesn’t always allow for too much improvisation in his movies, but this line from Jamie Foxx was too good and too natural to be cut.
4. “Bitch, please in Spider-Man: Far from Home.
Photo Credit: Marvel
Samuel L. Jackson was specifically asked about this line in an interview, and he couldn’t 100% verify if it was in the script or not, but then Jake Gyllenhaal chimed in and said, “It was improvised. I’m here to attest that was improvised.”
5. Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?
Photo Credit: Universal
In Fast & Furious 6, The Rock ad-libbed an insult at one of the characters, making Ludacris literally spit out his drink from laughing too hard.
6. Timothée Chalamet improvised looking into the camera in Call Me By Your Name.
Photo Credit: Sony Pictures Classics
On the DVD commentary, Chalamet said the glance was his “little homage to Boyhood here at the end, stealing a two-second look into the lens.”
7. Tony Stark’s death scene in Avengers: Endgame.
Photo Credit: Marvel
Tom Holland revealed in an interview that only a couple people were on set to film Tony Stark’s death scene: Kevin Feige (Marvel’s president), the Russo brothers (the directors), Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr., and himself.
The four cast members showed up to set and were given a loose outline of what was going to be shot:
“They kind of told us what was going to happen – or what they wanted to happen – and then we just sort of improvised.”
Holland said it was a “really, really interesting way to shoot such a pivotal scene in the movie.”
8. DiCaprio’s bloody hand in Django Unchained was because he actually cut himself.
Photo Credit: The Weinstein Company
Leo said that the cast and crew gave him a standing ovation after the scene was finished, and he kept acting in the scene because “it was more interesting to watch Quentin’s and Jamie’s reaction off-camera than to look at my hand.”
9. Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman’s dinner conversation in Logan.
Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox
Patrick Stewart revealed that he and Hugh Jackman improvised an eight-minute scene at the dinner table, per director James Mangold’s request:
“When you get to that moment, why don’t you talk about your history a little bit more? Fill it out with something. Whatever feels appropriate to you.”
10. Joshua Gad improvised this line in Frozen.
Photo Credit: Disney
Josh Gad gives us the scoop on this hilarious line:
“Improv is definitely always part of the journey, and they were amazing collaborators in letting me just come up with something to say, some of which is in there. I remember saying as a joke, ‘I’ve been impaled,’ and I was shocked when I watched the movie and they animated this and kept this in the film.'”
What did you think about these movie moments? Did any of them really hit home for you?
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