17 Shocking Things Celebs Actually Ate On Set

Actors have to do a lot of weird shit for their jobs – including actually putting all sorts of things in their mouths that they never normally would. Here’s some celebs who have shared their feelings about the most unusual things they had to eat while filming…

1. Nicolas Cage ate real, live cockroaches in Vampire’s Kiss. “The thing I hate most in the world are cockroaches,” he said. Later, he added, “I’ll never do that again. I’m sorry I did it at all.”

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2. Leonardo DiCaprio did a lot of difficult things while filming The Revenant – but perhaps worse than plunging into a frozen river was having to eat raw bison liver. “When you see the movie, you’ll see my reaction,” Leo said. “It says it all. It was an instinctive reaction.”

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3. Mia Farrow also had to eat raw liver – in her case, chicken – for Rosemary’s Baby, but what made it difficult for her was the fact she was a vegetarian at the time. “I ate it, take after take,” she said.

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4. Choi Min-sik was also a vegetarian when he had to do a scene for Oldboy in which his character eats a live octopus. In real life, the actor actually ate four octopi, with a new one used for each of the four takes shot.

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5. While filming Spawn, John Leguizamo insisted they use real maggots for a scene in which his character eats a maggot-covered pizza, arguing it wouldn’t have the “same effect” if they were fake. But he regretted that choice, later saying, “it was disgusting and I only did one take.”

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6. Christian Bale also ate real, live maggots for his role in Rescue Dawn. “I didn’t mind eating the maggots,” he said, “But I just wanted to make sure about where the maggots had come from. Where did they find those maggots?” He added he had “a little toothpick” to clean his mouth while filming.

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7. It may be tame in comparison, but Will Ferrell eating spaghetti covered in candy and syrup for Elf is still pretty gross. “I ingested a lot of sugar in this movie and I didn’t get a lot of sleep,” he said. “Anything for the movie, I’m there.”

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8. For Star Wars: A New Hope, Mark Hamill had to drink milk that had been dyed blue. Sounds simple enough, but Mark said it was “gag-inducing” because it was “warm, oily, [and] sickly-sweet.”

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9. Lance Henriksen ingested some of the synthetic “blood” that gushes from his character’s mouth in Aliens, but it was only made from a mix of milk and yogurt. Except that milk and yogurt had apparently gone bad over the course of filming, and Lance wound up with a bad case of food poisoning.

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10. Joey loved Rachel’s “trifle” in Friends, but in real life Matt LeBlanc had an unpleasant experience – mainly because he accidentally ate some trifle David Schwimmer had spit out from a previous take. “There was too much on his plate… We’re cutting, and he spits it back on his plate. I’m sitting right next to him, and I’m looking the other way. I didn’t see him spit it back on his plate. So, I take his plate… and I scrape some on my plate… We go again, and now I’m eating it. We finish the take. No one says anything to me.”

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11. The cast of Yellowjackets didn’t actually have to eat dead bodies like their characters, but the food used to represent those bodies is still “disgusting,” according to actor Sophie Nélisse. For instance, in the scene where the girls eat Jackie’s body, the crew made a prop body out of rice paper and jackfruit. It was “soggy” and “the grossest thing ever,” Sophie said – apparently, one cast member even vomited.

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12. Daenerys eating a raw heart is one of the most iconic moments in Game of Thrones Season 1, but actor Emilia Clarke said it was also one of the hardest to film. “There wasn’t much acting required,” she said. “They made the heart out of solidified jam, but it tasted like bleach and raw pasta. I ate roughly 28 hearts throughout the days we filmed that scene. Fortunately, they gave me a spit bucket because I was vomiting in it quite often.”

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13. Jennifer Lawrence had to eat raw fish in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. “And not like a sushi raw fish,” she said. “I held a fish and had to eat it. And for the record, it tastes exactly how it smells.”

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14. Andy Serkis, meanwhile, didn’t have to eat raw fish while filming The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – but he said he would have preferred it over the gelatin fish he had to eat instead. “They made a few gelatin models which I had to bite into, which actually in all honesty tasted more disgusting than biting into a raw fish,” he said.

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15. Danny DeVito did eat raw fish for his role in Batman Returns, but he was fine with it – what he didn’t like was the “mixture of mouthwash and spirulina” he squeezed into his mouth between takes. “I needed to ooze this green, kind of black thickish liquid,” he explained.

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16. Also, for Batman Returns, Michelle Pfeiffer put a real, live bird in her mouth. While she didn’t actually eat it, she still regretted the choice. “I look back and say, ‘What was I thinking?’ I could’ve gotten a disease or something from having a live bird in my mouth,” she later said.

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17. Finally, Matt Damon said he “literally ate shit” while filming Elysium after a helicopter got too low and blew the “Poo River” dump they were shooting in all over (and in) him and his co-stars.

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