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9 Hilarious On-Set Stories From Your Favorite Celebrities

On a film set, you spend more time with your coworkers than with your family. You stay on the job for long periods, eat all your meals together, and the bathroom is only ten feet away from the action. It's the ideal environment for social missteps to spread like a disease. Let's find our the most hilarious on-set stories in this article.
This collection of behind-the-scenes tales features several awkward situations, including the exchange of body fluids. It's almost as though performers aren't shown the right way to use the loo. Some of these embarrassing backlot incidents may be familiar to you, but the vast majority have been dormant in Hollywood history for decades. Awkward and genuine anecdotes from the set are about to be revealed, and they are certain to make you grimace.

9. Dominic Monaghan

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Dominic Monaghan, the British actor who played Merry the hobbit in The Lord of the Rings, is a real joker. But the crew had had enough, so they decided to get back at the joker. Once, the actor and his friend Billy Boyd (who played Pippin) got a "reworked" script with a new scene: Merry and Pippin fell out of a tree, their clothes got caught on the branches, and they had to hold each other to stay warm. The joke came out after a few awkward minutes on the way to the scene.

8. Alan Rickman

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Pranks too old? Not to Alan Rickman. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the whole school slept on the great hall floor. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) begged to be near an actress he liked. Rickman (Severus Snape) and Gambon (Professor Dumbledore) planted a fart machine in his sleeping bag. "They waited till the camera came in for a big dramatic shot, then unleashed this noise in the great hall," Radcliffe said.

7. Harrison Ford

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Harrison Ford has several amusing stories throughout his career. He was a prankster and victim in some. Ford hid naked in Princess Leia's (Carrie Fisher) closet and pretended to hang himself with his tie. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, as Indy was bound to a post and about to be whipped, Barbra Streisand dressed in a leather dominatrix suit and said, "It's for all the money you'll make on Return of the Jedi."

6. Woody Harrelson

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Young and unpopular Woody Harrelson couldn't find a job in NYC. Harrelson didn't enjoy television but auditioned for Cheers. The casting director said, "Aha! Continue. "Read this to the boys." She introduced him to the writers. Following her, he needed to blow his nose. “I was walking down the corridor, through a door, and everyone laughed as I blew my nose. "You had the part then," director Jimmy Burrows stated.

5. Matt Damon - Clooney

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Clooney pranked Damon on The Monuments Men. George requested the wardrobe department to take in Damon's clothes by 1/8 of an inch every few days so he might lose weight. Damon filmed in Europe but had to visit NYC often. "Every time I returned to New York, my jeans were tighter, and I thought, 'This is crazy. Damon recalls saying, "I've been working out."

4. Brad Pitt and George Clooney

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Brad Pitt and George Clooney have been playing jokes on each other for a long time. People say that everything started when Clooney sent Pitt an embarrassing note to make him laugh. So, when Ocean's Twelve was being made, Brad Pitt got even with George Clooney by telling the crew, "Please don't look Mr. Clooney in the eye, and he also insists on being called "Mr. Ocean."

3. Maggie Smith

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Maggie Smith is one of the best-known British actresses. She has won two Oscars, but most people remember her as Professor McGonagall from the Harry Potter movies. Maggie says that playing Hermione in the Harry Potter Movies.has changed her life. Before, people would ask for her autograph, but after the movies came out, even kids started recognizing her. "A lot of small people said, 'Hello!'" One kid asked me, "Did you really used to be a cat?"

2. Julia Roberts

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Julia Roberts knits. Julia's friend and Larry Crowne co-star Tom Hanks made a joke about her knitting. Everyone was knitting when Julia arrived once. She started giving knitting tips. She realized nobody in the room was especially skilled and the scenario was ludicrous. Julia enjoyed the joke.

1. Kit Harington

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Both the show's performers and filmmakers are pranksters, so Game of Thrones is plenty of humorous stories. The show's makers believed Kit Harington's Jon Snow was too beautiful for the bleak plot. After a confrontation with a white walker, they wrote a fictional sequence in which Jon would lose half his face and hair. Harington took revenge by sending film directors a photo of himself bald. Harington had to admit the photo was five years old to avoid a scandal (he couldn't cut his hair till the final sequences were done).
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