Extraordinary skills that the actors acquired after filming (14 photos)

Whatever you will go through and learn for the sake of your favorite profession!





In order to believably show on the screen everything that a character created on the pages of a script can do, the actor playing him in a good way must actually learn how to do it. Unless, of course, we are talking about comic book superheroes. For example, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie can actually fly helicopters on their own. Well, it was necessary for the film, what can you do?

And in addition to certain skills, actors sometimes also have to learn to live in certain conditions - in the desert or underground, it all depends on the plot. For this, they also undergo appropriate training before filming.

But, imagine, the circumstances of the actors’ training are even more fun than these, and they themselves sometimes learn even more specific skills for filming than driving various vehicles. We decided to look for several such examples in big cinema, and here they are in front of you!

1. Sigourney Weaver learned to “speak gorilla language” for the film Gorillas in the Mist (1988)



The actress played the role of American zoologist Dian Fossey and received an Oscar nomination for her.

2. Robert Downey Jr. learned to hold a tennis racket and play the violin with his left hand for the film Chaplin (1992)





3. Bryan Cranston actually learned how to cook meth for his role in Breaking Bad (2008-2013)



By the way, the creators of the series, without meaning to, “popularized” methamphetamine in Europe. Dealers of the illegal substance have even begun adding blue dye to their product to attract a larger audience.

4. Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams and Faith Vladica lived together for a month before filming Valentine (2010)



Living together, according to director Derek Cienfrance, should have helped Gosling and Williams believably play a young couple with a relationship crisis. Their on-screen daughter, 7-year-old actress Faith Vladika, was also placed with them. However, the actors were together only during the day, since in the evenings Williams returned home to her real daughter.

5. John David Washington learned to perform almost all movements in reverse for the film Tenet (2020)



The actor said that he had to learn to blink, walk, talk, fight, run, defend himself and even strike in an unnaturally reversed direction. This means that Washington had to fight and suppress his instincts in order to forget his normal style of movement and behavior.

6. Lefty Bruce Willis became ambidextrous for The Sixth Sense (1999)



The actor learned to be right-handed so that the viewer would not pay attention to his left hand (for example, while writing), which does not have a wedding ring on it - which is an important clue revealing the main plot twist.

7. Tom Cruise secretly worked as a FedEx delivery driver while preparing for Collateral (2004)



The goal of his training was to learn how to blend in with a crowd and remain unrecognized. Being Tom Cruise.

8. Michelle Pfeiffer learned to use a whip almost like a pro for Batman Returns (1992)



The actress did all the tricks with the whip herself without the use of graphics or stunt doubles. In the scene where Catwoman beheads four mannequins with a whip, the actress completed the task in one take.

9. All the actors from the film “The Secret Forest” (2004) lived for a week in a training camp created in the atmosphere of the 19th century



All of them were deprived of any modern devices or hot water from the tap; instead, the actors worked on cultivating the soil, set up camps in the forest and ate dishes appropriate to the time.

10. Jim Carrey learned to endure torture while filming How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)



Kerry was actually dealt with by a specialist working with CIA employees. The filmmakers and the actor took this measure to help Kerry cope with the terrible discomfort that he experienced because of his costume and makeup.

11. Tom Cruise learned to hold his breath underwater for 6 minutes while filming Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)



In general, this entire list could consist of one Tom Cruise, who only for the Mission: Impossible film series learned to perform almost any stunts and control almost everything.

Until last year, no actor could beat Tom Cruise's record (Margot Robbie held her breath for 5 minutes for Suicide Squad), but now the record holder is Kate Winslet, who held her breath underwater for 7 minutes 14 seconds. She did this on the set of the yet-to-be-released film Avatar 2.

12. Daniel Radcliffe didn't eat for two days immediately before filming The Jungle (2017)



The actor played Israeli traveler Yossi Ginsberg, who survived after spending 3 weeks in the Amazon jungle. In addition to the strict diet that the actor followed for weeks, he decided to feel what it was like to not eat for days.

13. Shia LaBeouf joined the US National Guard to prepare for the film Fury (2014)



The day after I got the job in the film, I became a chaplain's assistant in the 41st Infantry Regiment. I lived on a forward operating base for a month.

In addition, the actor did not wash for four months.