Lots of movies look like the actors had fun making them, but the real behind-the-scenes story is most often nothing like the onscreen hijinks. Instead, it’s maybe more like a ho-hum experience, strictly professional, or even downright despicable.
So we totally love it when we hear about movies where the cast totally bonds, and it’s even better when they maybe enjoy each other’s company a little too much — like, so much that they destroy a fleet of golf carts, or get inebriated before that big scene, or are nowhere to be found when the director calls for action.
Here’s a look at some of those awesome times when movie buds became real, honest-to-goodness friends, hung out even when they weren’t filming, and got into trouble together. Some people involved won’t be a shocker (John Belushi), but some might catch you by surprise (sweet, gorgeous Rebecca Romijn?). Here’s the real scoop on the real-life sex, drugs, and rock and roll that happened even after the director called cut.
More Like Drunkard Games
Jennifer Lawrence is pretty open when it comes to partying (and how she’s not that great at it). As she told Harper’s Bazaar, “If I do stay out late and I’m partying hard, I will throw up. I don’t have the tolerance to black out; I just start puking.” Like the time she and Emma Stone yacked after an Adele concert, or when she barfed after Madonna’s Oscar after party. She even got tipsy with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show after finding out he had a Mad Men-style bar onset.
Another time JLaw hit the bottle? While filming Hunger Games: Catching Fire. She and Woody Harrelson (who was there for the Adele debacle) decided to get drinks, but — whoops! — they were needed on set. Oh well. Co-star Josh Hutcherson remembers the two running around laughing the whole time. “We were drunk,” Lawrence later admitted. “That was fun. That was the first time I’ve ever drank at work.”
Even when the cast wasn’t drinking, there was still other merriment going on. According to director Francis Lawrence, it wasn’t only Lawrence and Harrelson getting into mischief together. “It’s usually Jen and Josh and Woody, the trio. When that trio gets together…” Co-star Liam Hemsworth added that Harrelson was always making everyone laugh, whether in character or not. Sounds like filming this one was a blast, and the friendship Lawrence and Harrelson formed is firmly at the center of it all.
Dazed, Confused and Having a Blast
Richard Linklater’s 1992 cult favorite Dazed and Confused is a coming-of-age classic. It was where we first saw Renee Zellweger, it’s where Matthew McConaughey’s “All right, all right, all right” originated, and it brought a huge group of future stars together.
Considering most of them were in their 20s and playing beer-drinking stoners, is it any wonder they got into a heap of fun? Linklater has admitted that although he had strict rules on set, the actors later confessed to actually being stoned in many of the scenes. The cast was seen smoking, drinking beer, and playing cards in the hotel lobby together — sometimes into the next morning, when the regular clientele came down for breakfast. Milla Jovovich and Shawn Andrews even fell in love and eloped to Las Vegas during filming. The marriage was later annulled, since Jovovich was only 16 years old at the time.
On days off, McConaughey arranged tubing expeditions down the Guadalupe River. Castmate Sasha Jenson told Texas Monthly, “We’d work all night and then go watch the sun come up, floating on the river. Sometimes we wouldn’t even sleep — but, hey, we’re supposed to look like we’re so damned tired and stoned and drunk anyway.” Joey Lauren Adams confirmed how bonded the ensemble was, admitting there were “crazy hook-ups… all (of us) in a hotel for two months together.” Well all right, all right, all right.
(Excerpt) Read More at: Looper.com