What’s the least dignified scene you’ve ever seen a respected actor do?

[CalMeacham]

How about Joan Collins being mentally controlled by ants – ants!! – in Empire of the Ants.

And she had to go out on the road and promote this film, too!

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

@salinqmind

It was a brave scene for any actor.

Brave is not a phrase that I would use for Christian Slater in Alone in the Dark.

@MichaelEmouse

John Travolta dying on the can in Pulp Fiction.

Mr. Travolta in a fright wig during the entirety of Battlefield Earth.

[Zsofia]

@Small_Hen

I was about to say, “just staring in a bad movie doesn’t count!” Then I clicked the link. You win.

… Dayum. I was going to bring up getting eaten TWICE by a shittily animated snake in Anaconda, but never mind. Never mind at all.

[BrainGlutton]

John Gielgud in Bob Guccione’s Caligula. No particular scene, just having anything at all to do with the project.

[tesseract]

What about Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton’s pre-sex scene in Monster’s Ball? Although I have read that some people thought it was awful acting, I always thought it was weird and awkward enough to sort of ring true. But it did seem pretty undignified.

[The_Second_Stone]

@Stink Fish Pot

Many of mine have already been listed, so I’ll go with

Burt Reynolds covering himself with Vaseline in Striptease. Burt, what the hell happened to you?

Burt always did comedy well, and this is one of them. Besides, his toes in the boots felt all squishy, and he liked that.

[Eyebrows_0f_Doom]

Jeez, I think it’s going to be pretty hard to top that Jon Voight clip. Holy crap, that was… WTF *was *that!?

[The_Second_Stone]

@Eyebrows_0f_Doom

Jeez, I think it’s going to be pretty hard to top that Jon Voight clip. Holy crap, that was… WTF *was *that!?

A paycheck. For doing a kids movie. So what? I’ve seen worse Saturday Night Live episodes.

[Batsinma_Belfry]

In Straightheads, Gillian Anderson anally raping a guy with a shotgun.

[Manduck]

You’d figure a guy with a shotgun could put a stop to that - if he wanted to

George C Scott in Firestarter, in the scene where he plays a guy who is pretending to be afraid of the dark (to gain Drew Barrymore’s trust). Really embarrassing fake crying.

[Rrose_Selavy]

@salinqmind

I would call it unglamorous, but NOT undignified. He was under attack, fighting for his life in a very intense scene - even if he WAS naked. It was a brave scene for any actor.

Partly improvised, if this is correct

Ned Beatty states that he created the infamous “squeal piggy” line while he and actor Bill McKinney were improvising the scene.[3] James Dickey’s son, Christopher Dickey, in his book, Summer of Deliverance, said that it was one of the crewmen who suggested that Ned Beatty’s character, “Bobby”, “squeal like a pig” — to add some backwoods horror to the scene and to make it more shocking. According to Boorman’s running commentary for the HD DVD and Blu-ray editions, the studio wanted the scene shot two ways, one of which would be acceptable for TV. Boorman didn’t want to do this, and as “Squeal like a pig” was a good replacement for the (presumably obscene) dialog in the script, it was substituted, as it would work for both the theatrical and TV versions.

Deliverance | Plot

[Gyrate]

In the full-frontal middle-aged man category, Bob Hoskins in Mrs Henderson Presents. Urgh. Plus it was a terrible film anyway, made only (as far as i can tell) to give Judi Dench something to do.

[E-Sabbath]

@kidneyfailure

I mentioned it

Weird. I searched the thread for Caligula, and I didn’t see your post.

[acetylene]

How about Disney princess Anne Hathaway having sex with street punks in Havoc?

[Sigmagirl]

@Gyrate

In the full-frontal middle-aged man category, Bob Hoskins in Mrs Henderson Presents. Urgh. Plus it was a terrible film anyway, made only (as far as i can tell) to give Judi Dench something to do.

I disagree. I thought it was a delightful film and Hoskins was charming.

[FriarTed]

@Push_You_Down

I think that sketch is the funniest of the episode.

“I’ll tell you what. I’ll make you a cake with a man peeing AAAANND a woman peeing that way you can be happy and your friends can be happy.”

Funnier than Love Boat TNG or Choking Devil?

[Bosstone]

@The_Second_Stone

A paycheck. For doing a kids movie. So what? I’ve seen worse Saturday Night Live episodes.

Oh, sure. But that doesn’t mean it was dignified.

[Baker]

@kidneyfailure

Helen Mirren & co- Caligula

The whole thing was one long undignified scene.

You beat me to it.

[Waenara]

As long as we’re nominating Helen Mirren, what about Shadowboxer.

Technically might not fit with the OP since I haven’t actually seen it. But even reading a synopsis and hearing about it from someone who did see it makes me wish I could bleach my brain.

[TreacherousCretin]

Veronica Cartwright does an extremely brief spreadshot in “Inserts.”