# Movie scenes in which the actor is actually intoxicated **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884 "2014-10-09T18:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/1 "2014-10-09T18:06:28Z")
Martin Sheen’s Sheen-anigans during the Saigon hotel room sceen in “Apocalypse Now” wouldn’t have been the same were he not completely bombed. I have always wondered if Tom Cruise was actually drunk during his “Galactically stupid” scene in “A Few Good Men.” Anyone know? Steven Wright stoned in “Half Baked?” What others? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/2 "2014-10-09T18:09:28Z")
The Beatles claimed that they were pretty stoned in some scenes from **Help!** , most notably when they’re skiing. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/3 "2014-10-09T18:11:24Z")
Edward Norton and Brad Pitt were supposedly pretty hammered for a scene in Fight Club. I think it’s the one where they’re hitting golf balls. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/4 "2014-10-09T18:23:06Z")
I’ve read that genuine real boo was smoked onscreen in **Easy Rider** , and that Jack Nicholson was thoroughly baked throughout the filming of the campfire scene. An actor who was already stoned, playing a character who smokes his first joint on camera, and slowly gets stoned. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/5 "2014-10-09T19:02:55Z")
Are we just talking about scenes where the character is also supposed to be drunk or scenes where the character is not supposed to be drunk but the actor is? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/6 "2014-10-09T19:03:58Z")
WC Fields in pretty much all his movies. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/7 "2014-10-09T19:05:42Z")
It didn’t make the release, but Robert Shaw shot the first takes of the “four hundred men went into the water…” monologue in _Jaws_ so drunk he couldn’t speak the lines. His justification was realism; Spielberg’s response was “Let’s just act next time.” ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/8 "2014-10-09T19:06:06Z")
Robert Shaw during his infamous “SS Indianapolis” scene in Jaws. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/9 "2014-10-09T19:07:56Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > WC Fields in pretty much all his movies. I was going to say pretty much this. “Who put pineapple juice in my pineapple juice?” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/10 "2014-10-09T19:08:16Z")
I didn’t necessarily NOTICE that anyone was drunk or high on camera, but I’ve heard quite a few actors admit that they were drunk or high while filming or videotaping. Mackenzie Philips often used coke while shooting \*\*\*One Day at a Time \*\*\*and says she met fans who told her it was very noticeable. Sid Caesar has admitted being so drunk and so high so often that there are entire movies he’s made that he has NO memory of making. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/11 "2014-10-09T19:09:03Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Are we just talking about scenes where the character is also supposed to be drunk or scenes where the character is not supposed to be drunk but the actor is? Character intoxicated, actor playing character intoxicated during filming. I’m sure there are hundreds of examples of actors being high on _something_ during filming. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/12 "2014-10-09T19:12:09Z")
Carrier Fisher in pretty much all of\* The Star Wars Holiday Special\*. But then, I think I’d have to have bourbon sloshing around the bottom of my eyeballs to appear on such a turkey. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/13 "2014-10-09T19:18:53Z")
Animal House. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/14 "2014-10-09T19:20:43Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Robert Shaw during his infamous “SS Indianapolis” scene in Jaws. Nitpick: USS _Indianapolis_: [USS Indianapolis (CA-35) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)) ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/15 "2014-10-09T19:25:34Z")
Deckard’s boss in “Blade Runner,” perhaps? It’s never stated that’s he’s drunk, but he sure seems like the drink-all-afternoon detective to me. And the actor actually seems drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/16 "2014-10-09T19:33:26Z")
I’ve read that Humphrey Bogart was drunk during a scene in _[The African Queen](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/)_. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/17 "2014-10-09T19:52:59Z")
Wasn’t Martin Sheen massively drunk for the opening stumbling scene in Apocalypse Now? ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/18 "2014-10-09T19:54:02Z")
Charlie Sheen in **Wall Street** was drunk in that one scene when his character was drunk. (Sorry, it’s been a while, that’s all the detail I can remember. :p) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/19 "2014-10-09T19:55:39Z")
I do believe Billy Bob Thornton was drunk in Bad Santa. Per IMDB: [Bad Santa (2003) - Trivia - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307987/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv) ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884/20 "2014-10-09T20:03:22Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Martin Sheen’s Sheen-anigans during the Saigon hotel room sceen in “Apocalypse Now” wouldn’t have been the same were he not completely bombed. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wasn’t Martin Sheen massively drunk for the opening stumbling scene in Apocalypse Now? Oh I don’t believe so, no. :dubious: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-scenes-in-which-the-actor-is-actually-intoxicated/700884.md?page=2)