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Wag the Director

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Wag the Director	comment	Actors are in a constant state of communication with directors (and, sometimes, writers) as to what they think or feel their character should do, and in what direction their development ought to go. Thus in a very fundamental sense actors are always meddling for the benefit of the story. Well, This Is Not That Trope. This trope is when actors, likely those whose salary accounts for a significant portion of the budget, impose their ideas on the director. Maybe they want more screen time, a major rewrite of the plot, or some other concession that would get any smaller actor fired, like refusing any and all direction on their acting and filling their performances with Ham and Cheese or being overly serious. The result may not harm the film overall (or it may well be so extensive it becomes a vehicle for them to showboat in) but it is usually noticeable to viewers and may cause laughter, groans, or head-scratching. It's most typically parodied by the famous Diva line "Shoot my good side please!" And yes, there are occasions when this trope actually improves the production. However, this trope differs from the typical creative (and collaborative) process by involving a self-centered actor overruling the director. As a general rule, there are three cases of "positive" Director Wagging: (1) A case of Throw It In!, where the additions work, (2) The actor in question is acting as an Assistant Director, or the Director is acting as the AD, or (3) The actor filling a void where the director should be (as sometimes happens when a director is incompetent or fired). Cases 2 and 3 benefit heavily from an actor who knows how to make a film, which is a rarer skill among actors than you might think (acting rewards specialization and subjectivity, directing and producing reward generalism and objectivity). Note that this situation is actually an improvement on how things worked for a while in Hollywood. After the final collapse of the studio star system in the late '60s, if an actor didn't like how the director was doing their job, it was completely possible for the star to get the director fired, then take over director's job themselves for the remainder of the shoot. This practice was officially stopped in 1976, after Clint Eastwood had Philip Kaufman fired from The Outlaw Josey Wales and took over the film himself — the Directors Guild subsequently made a rule which stated that whenever a film's director was fired, the replacement was not allowed to have been associated with the production in any way whatsoever. This theoretically safeguards directors from overly egotistical actors, although there are, of course, ways around it. The trope name is a play on "wag the dog", meaning that rather than the dog wagging the tail, it's the tail that wags the dog. Or in this case, rather than the director directing the actor, it's the actor who directs the director. Also note that when it comes down to it, the producer is (often unfortunately) the one with more power in Hollywood; actors just have a more direct connection, hence this trope. Compare Executive Meddling, Protection from Editors, and Troubled Production. Contrast Prima Donna Director.
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Wag the Director / int_10b8d7fe	comment	A positive example from Mrs. Doubtfire. In an earlier draft of the screenplay, Daniel and Miranda remarried in the end, but Robin Williams and Sally Field both objected on the grounds that it would give kids of divorced parents false hope that their parents would get back together. So the ending was altered to Daniel and Miranda staying divorced but becoming Amicable Exes. Interestingly, this is more a case of 'Wag the Executives' since Chris Columbus actually agreed with them and resisted attempts to change the ending.
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Wag the Director / int_11ffc88d	comment	On The Getaway, he had Jerry Fielding's score replaced with Quincy Jones. Under his contract with First Artists, McQueen had final cut on the film and when Sam Peckinpah found out, he was upset. Richard Bright said that McQueen chose takes that "made him look good" and Peckinpah felt that the actor played it safe: "He chose all these Playboy shots of himself. He's playing it safe with these pretty-boy shots."
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Wag the Director / int_17475494	comment	The end credits for Down with Love include a song and dance number by the Catcher Block and Barbara Novak, ostensibly them promoting the book they wrote together. The sequence was added after Ewan McGregor pointed out to the director that he and RenÃ©e Zellweger had just starred in Moulin Rouge! and Chicago respectively and that it would be a waste to not have them performing together.
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Wag the Director / int_19a96531	comment	On McCabe & Mrs. Miller, he constantly asked for multiple takes, which annoyed Robert Altman greatly. One scene where Beatty catches a bottle after it falls and pours another drink required twenty takes and he still wanted more. Altman stormed off the set and let an assistant director handle it. And it took twenty more takes. Altman got his revenge by making Betty do twenty-five takes of a scene in the cold snowdrift.
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Wag the Director / int_1ca82882	comment	Ford refused to cut his long hair to a 1950s style for American Graffiti. As a compromise, he wore a cowboy hat.
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Wag the Director / int_1eacb44b	comment	Fist of Fury was originally going to end with the main character surviving, as his real life counterpart did. However, Bruce Lee insisted that he die at the end, but with honor.
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Wag the Director / int_1ff419c5	comment	After being cast in the role of Ansem the Wise for Kingdom Hearts II, Christopher Lee walked into the studio and gave an ultimatum to the director: "I'm a busy man, so I'm going to read my lines once, and only once, and then walk out of the studio." That's exactly what he did.
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Wag the Director / int_20409a0a	comment	In Cox's case, it was about working to seamlessly integrate Matt's character growth from the first two seasons of the show plus The Defenders (2017).
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Wag the Director / int_2149bc5	comment	Brando showed up for the filming of Apocalypse Now drunk and fat, though director Francis Ford Coppola had been specified a wiry, muscular character. He hadn't read the book upon which it was based, instead insisting that Coppola read it to him on the set. He demanded changes to the script (most infamously, he demanded his character's name be changed from Kurtz to Leighley since he thought Kurtz wasn't an appropriate name for an American Colonel, and later demanded it be changed back to Kurtz when he finally read the book) only allowed himself to be filmed in shadows, and ultimately improvised most of his own rambling lines. All this after receiving his $1 million advance.
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Wag the Director / int_226f5619	comment	During his guest appearance on Happy!, "Weird Al" Yankovic was supposed to play a giant foul-mouthed baby, but Weird Al rarely swears (he HAS used mild ones in a couple of songs, but nothing on the level that Happy would have wanted), so the showrunners allowed him to ad-lib lines where necessary.
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Wag the Director / int_24ffd341	comment	Early on in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Sweet Dee's character played the role of a Straight Man to the rest of the cast's antics, only for Kaitlin Olson to tell the creators that she wanted to get involved in shenanigans as well. As such, Dee became just as unhinged as the rest of the Gang.
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Wag the Director / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: When approached to guest-star in "Lisa's Substitute", Dustin Hoffman feared that being in a cartoon would damage his career, so he demanded to be credited under pseudonym. Michael Jackson demanded that a read-through of the script for "Stark Raving Dad" be held at his home before committing to the role. After finishing the read-through, he also put forward the additional conditions that he would not be credited under his own name, and not sing but be replaced by a soundalike in singing scenes. This was supposed to be just a joke, but resulted in the producers not being allowed to admit, officially and without legal repercusions, that Jackson had guest-starred in the show. After this and the Dustin Hoffman precedent, it was decided that future guest stars would have to agree to be credited. Jackson also asked that a joke about Prince be changed to Elvis Presley. Jose Canseco appeared as one of the ringers Mr. Burns hires for the nuclear plant's softball team in "Homer at the Bat". He disliked the character model they came up with for him, and both he and his wife at the time objected to the original reason he misses the final game (waking up late in bed with Edna Krabappel), and Canseco basically intimidated the showrunners into changing his character's appearance and part in the show. Similar to Johnny Carson below, the show's response was to make Canseco miss the game because of a bout of excessive heroism, being too busy saving a baby, cat, furniture... from an ever-burning house. Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier appeared as himself in the episode "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?". Originally, Frazier was to be knocked out by Barney Gumble. However, Frazier's son objected to this, citing that Frazier was a world champion who wouldn't be knocked out in such a manner. Instead, Frazier beat up Gumble, and stuffed him into a garbage can. Multiple examples from "Krusty Gets Kancelled": The original role pitched for Johnny Carson was one where he visited the Simpson family's house and mooched off them. Carson felt this role was too degrading, so instead the writers took the opposite route and portrayed him as extremely versatile and multi-talented. Bette Midler's condition for guest starring was that the show promoted her anti-littering campaign. Paul and Linda McCartney appeared as guest stars in "Lisa the Vegetarian" under the condition that Lisa would convert to vegetarianism permanently, stating that not doing so would confuse viewers. It also helps that the earlier episode, "Lisa's Wedding" stated that Lisa converted to vegetarianism at some point. This remains one of the few permanent changes in a show that delights in Status Quo Is God. Lawrence Tierney guest starred as Don Brodka in "Marge Be Not Proud". Then-showrunner Josh Weinstein called Tierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes" (for example, he originally refused to do the answering machine gag because he couldn't understand why Brodka was having a one sided conversation with a machine, forcing Weinstein to improvise dialog from Marge at the other end of the call to play off of him which got deleted afterwards). When John Waters appeared as John in "Homer's Phobia", John's line "Do you know who would like [Homer]? My landlord." was originally "My father", but was changed by Waters' request. He didn't want to imply his actual father was intolerant of his sexuality. Richard Gere would only guest star in "She of Little Faith" if Lisa permanently converted to Buddhism, and said "Free Tibet". Mark Hamill agreed to appear in "Mayored To The Mob" on condition that he could also voice a character other than himself. Hence, he also plays Leavelle, the bodyguard trainer. Thomas Pynchon, in "All's Fair in Oven War", refused to do a line calling Homer a "fat-ass", telling the writers that "Homer is my role model and I can't speak ill of him". Make of that what you will.
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Wag the Director / int_263d5756	comment	Willis apparently did this a lot while filming Live Free or Die Hard, greatly frustrating the director and some of the other actors. On the other hand, according to Kevin Smith (who had a role in the movie, and told the story in one of his "Evening" shows) it's probably for the better: the studio wanted a lot more low-brow humor, goofiness, and other un-Die-Hard elements, and weren't afraid to make the story suffer for it, which Willis refused to allow. When they tried to tell him he couldn't make the changes he wanted, he abruptly finished the argument by asking, "So who's your second choice to play John McClane?" Interestingly, Willis' usual dub voice actor in Spain, RamÃ³n Langa (and a popular actor in the country in his own right) also threatened to walk out if the Spanish version did not include profanity (as the English version was neutered in post-production to get a PG-13 rating).
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Wag the Director / int_27286fb2	comment	In Spider-Man: No Way Home, all three actors playing the different versions of Peter Parker had an influence over the script. Both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield made suggestions about how their characters should have developed since the end of their respective film series (with Maguire reportedly asking for minimal information to be provided on what had happened to his Peter since Spider-Man 3), and it's also been stated that Tom Holland had a big influence on unspecified issues regarding the film's ending.
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Wag the Director / int_294b0bf	comment	On Mutiny on the Bounty, Brando constantly undermined the authority of director Lewis Milestone, and got the crew to obey his every whim. Brando had so much clout by this point that he got MGM to green-light virtually every outrageous idea he had. At one point, he pulled people off the film crew to decorate and design a friend's wedding in Tahiti. Another time he had airplanes filled with cases of champagne, turkeys, and hams flown to Tahiti for parties. He also threatened to quit the film if the Bounty ship was burnt and demanded repeated re-writes to meet his ever-changing vision of the film.
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Wag the Director / int_2a6ee2b0	comment	Happens on Slings & Arrows quite a bit, particularly whenever Geoffrey ends up with some hugely famous and award-winning stage actor on hand to play a leading role (e.g. Henry Breedlove, an Expy of Kenneth Branagh, defying all of his direction as the title character in Macbeth).
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Wag the Director / int_3368c850	comment	In Every Which Way but Loose, Clint Eastwood was often in dispute with the director James Fargo. The first assistant sarcastically commented that this was because Fargo "had the notion that he was directing the movie." Note that Eastwood and Fargo had been long-time collaborators, with Fargo having handled second unit duties on films that Eastwood had directed, and working smoothly with him during Fargo's directorial bow on The Enforcer. On that occasion they worked well together, since it had been agreed that Eastwood was really in charge, but Fargo expected more control on Every Which Way. Their friendship survived the film's production, but afterwards they agreed that it'd probably be best for the sake of their sanity if they didn't work on the same film again.
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Wag the Director / int_36857000	comment	In Hard Candy, Sandra Oh ad-libbed calling her character "Judy Tokuda" (in the script, she was just down as Mrs Tokuda). The director actually liked it but the producers (worried that the name hadn't been cleared by the legal department) insisted she do an alternate take saying "Mrs Tokuda". She did, but said the line in a ridiculous midwestern accent, rendering the take unusable.
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Wag the Director / int_39325ce	comment	Satirized in Shadow of the Vampire, where a fictionalized Max Schreck acts like a total douchebag towards F. W. Murnau during the filming of Nosferatu because he's a real vampire, not an actor. He constantly butts heads with Murnau, tries to eat any of the crew members he thinks are unnecessary (which is most of them), and his vampiric nature causes a lot of production snafus, like only being able to film his scenes at night, or having to fly to a shooting location because taking the boat they already paid for would mean crossing running water. The Hostility on the Set gets progressively worse until finally the film crew and Schreck try to murder each other, with Murnau going completely insane and just casually filming as his star brutally kills the crew before getting incinerated by the sun when some late workers obliviously walk in.
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Wag the Director / int_3fdafaad	comment	During WrestleMania 28, Brodus Clay was going to have a dance segment on the main stage, but creative wanted it cut for time. However, John Cena stepped in on Clay's behalf, with Cena saying he would outright refuse to wrestle unless the segment went through in full. And since this was the show where Cena's "Once in a Lifetime" dream match against The Rock was going to happen, Brodus Clay got to dance.
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Wag the Director / int_47f0eac3	comment	Parodied in Metalocalypse when the director of Blood Ocean is contractually forbidden to actually direct (or even approach) the band members.
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Wag the Director / int_480641ea	comment	If Luna Vachon is to be believed, Sable allegedly talked her way out of dropping the Women's Championship to her multiple times — sometimes just claiming she'd forgotten to bring the belt with her.
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Wag the Director / int_4a059a74	comment	The Mandalorian provided a positive example when Ming-Na Wen guest-starred in Chapter 5, as Fennec Shand. Ming-Na objected with the plans to kill off Fennec, and jokingly shared various ideas on revealing her as Not Quite Dead. After Chapter 5 director/writer Dave Filoni learned that they attended the same high school (but graduated in different years), he decided to drop a hint that Boba Fett would save Fennec's life. This helped allow Ming-Na to reprise the role in future Star Wars productions, including subsequent Mandalorian seasons. Filoni's rewrite also resolved an issue he and the other showrunners contemplated since early in the show's development, on how to reintroduce a supposedly-dead Ensemble Dark Horse into Star Wars.
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Wag the Director / int_4a48ab3f	comment	In The Real Blonde, a soap opera actor refuses to re-sign his contract unless the producers kill off his co-star's character because she humiliated him for his failure to perform.
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Wag the Director / int_4b4d15e2	comment	The Cranberries didn't like Samuel Bayer's original cut of "Ridiculous Thoughts" and re-edited the video with live footage, credited as "Freckles Flynn".
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Wag the Director / int_4b790c7b	comment	Iron Man 3 was originally going to be an adaptation of the Demon in a Bottle story (about alcoholism), which director Shane Black wanted. But Iron Man/Tony Stark's actor, Robert Downey Jr., didn't want to get in the headspace that could potentially make him fall back into his own alcoholism that he had long worked to overcome, and refused to do it. Instead, Tony is dealing with PTSD from the events of The Avengers (2012), which worked out rather well, due to rising awareness of veterans of the War on Terror dealing with the condition.
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Wag the Director / int_4e5462d9	comment	In State and Main the lead actress was hired specifically to play a part that requires nudity and a sex scene (its implied she normally gets hired for her looks, not her talent) but becomes a conservative Christian before the shoot and demands the scene be removed. The director fights it for much of the movie but the writer eventually finds a way to make it work somehow rewriting the character as a nun.
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Wag the Director / int_513cb294	comment	During the filming of Fireproof, Kirk Cameron's wife Chelsea Noble had to be costumed to serve as Erin Bethea's kissing double, because Cameron refused to even pretend to kiss any woman other than his wife.
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Wag the Director / int_533d613f	comment	In Fallout 76, Shannon Rivers was the pre-war actress for radio serial heroine the Mistress of Mysteries. It was stated that Rivers was very protective of the character, going out of her way to make sure that the character did not become a mere damsel or get shoehorned into romantic plotlines.
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Wag the Director / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Or rather wag the creator. When recording for the Deception arc, George Lucas initially didn't want James Arnold Taylor to voice Rako Hardeen so that Obi-Wan and Rako sounded different, as the former steals the latter's identity in that story arc. Dave Filoni and the creative team however were confident that Taylor could do a voice that sounded completely different from Obi-Wan and had him voice Rako; they eventually showed his performance to Lucas and he liked it.
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Wag the Director / int_54cea28e	comment	Norton even engaged in this trope during the production of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), in which he plays a brilliant but intense method actor who tries to wrest control from the director of the play he was cast in. Supposedly, he didn't even see the irony of the situation until it was explicitly pointed out to him.
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Wag the Director / int_56aa6dc9	comment	Attack Force was originally written as an Alien Invasion movie titled Harvester. For the same reason as Submerged, Steven Seagal didn't like the original premise and pushed to make the story about European gangsters manufacturing a drug that give its users super-human power. The production compromised by filming the movie for both storylines, with Seagal's take eventually winning out. This shows in the movie's rather incoherent storyline and odd editing choices (The Reveal is repeated multiple times, presumably because different versions of it were filmed for the separate versions of the story, and Seagal is noticeably overdubbed at multiple points by an actor who sounds nothing like him) and it concluding abruptly with no resolution.
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Wag the Director / int_5d354f8	comment	Holly from Red Dwarf was originally intended to simply be a voice-over role, as can be seen in some scenes in Series 1 and was turned into a face on a screen at the request of actor Norman Lovett, partly out of a sense of ego.
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Wag the Director / int_5f555efb	comment	Meanwhile, Woll encouraged Oleson to make Karen's past something difficult for her to endure and avoid the misogynistic and sexualized violence that Karen was subjected to in the two comics storylines that most prominently feature her (becoming a drug-addicted porn star who indirectly gives up Matt's identity to Fisk in a moment of weakness in Born Again, and her fridging at the hands of Bullseye in Guardian Devil). During the production of Daredevil Season 3, she worked very closely with showrunner Erik Oleson to ensure Karen's backstory steered towards something that made her more heroic. In one interview prior to Season 3, she said, "If we ever do delve into Karen's past, please don't make it that she shot someone while saving a busload of children. You know? I wanted to encourage him to make this difficult, make it something hard for her to get over, and so we can hopefully pull off something pretty interesting. I like the idea of compromising the character in some way, but I just don't know that it has to be sexual, or that it has to be in a way that causes her to lose her strength." The end result is that Karen is a former drug user, who was in a toxic relationship with a drug dealer, and she kicked the habit after she got her brother killed while driving under the influence. She never gives Matt's identity up to Fisk due to Fisk figuring it out all by himself. And her death in Guardian Devil ends up being subverted at the last second by having Dex kill Father Lantom instead.
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Wag the Director / int_641203c1	comment	Schitt's Creek: Moira Rose arrives to the set of her comeback vehicle, The Crows Have Eyes III: The Crownening only to realize the director is only doing it for the paycheck. She proceeds to rewrite scenes and convince him that they can make the best schlocky film. It becomes a surprise hit.
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Wag the Director / int_65628bd8	comment	The Plot Against America: Due to obligations with Stranger Things and other projects, Winona Ryder's schedule was tight, but she agreed to appear in The Plot Against America playing a 1940s Jewish woman on the condition that her character would say "Gay kocken offen yom!" at someone. It's Yiddish for "Go shit in the ocean" and basically means "Go fuck yourself." Co-creator David Simon was only too happy to oblige. Her character ultimately says it to the rabidly antisemitic Henry Ford.
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Wag the Director / int_6abf16c2	comment	Another positive example in Big Finish Doctor Who. Paul McGann pushed for a new look for his Doctor, based on World War I-era navy clothes, as well as a World War I storyline. This happened in Dark Eyes. This played in a very much "ask forgiveness before permission" fashion. McGann had volunteered to do a photoshoot to put together new photos for the Big finish CD covers and production artwork. The producers were overjoyed, as they'd long since gotten tired of reusing the twenty-years-old stills from his original movie appearance. When he showed up in his bluish-black leather overcoat, jeans, white t-shirt, and canvas satchel instead of his Victorian velvets... the producers were still overjoyed, and they were more than happy to work the changes into the script. An appearance by McGann in costume at a convention soon after, which met to wildly positive reactions by the fans, was just icing on the cake.
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Wag the Director / int_6e17a0d1	comment	Another positive example from Die Hard. Originally Hans Gruber was supposed to be a much more generic villain but Alan Rickman, despite it being his first film, began to make suggestions to add humor, class, and charm to Hans. John McTiernan had no problem with the actors making suggestions and by the end Rickman had managed to Wag the Director into turning Hans into one of the greatest movie villains ever.
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Wag the Director / int_701bf5d6	comment	A scene in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York features Kevin asking Donald Trump for directions to the lobby of the Plaza Hotel. The reason Trump has a cameo is because Chris Columbus wanted to film in The Plaza Hotel's actual lobby. Trump was the hotel's owner at the time, and only agreed to allow filming in the hotel if he could appear in the film as a cameo. Columbus was considering editing out Trump's scene, but eventually left it in after test audiences responded positively to it.
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Wag the Director / int_72e7d7f6	comment	In the 1986 Lord Peter Wimsey adaptations, Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter insisted on Lord Peter's proposal to Harriet being the climax of "Gaudy Night", as in the books, rather than a couple of lines in the middle.
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Wag the Director / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the first season episode "If Wishes Were Horses", Colm Meaney, who played O'Brien, vocally protested against the first draft of the script, in which his character would encounter a Leprechaun, believing it to be full of demeaning stereotypes of Irish people. As a result, the episode was rewritten so that the entity would appear as the fairy tale character Rumpelstiltskin. Meaney had been forced to share the screen with some offensively Irish space-colonists in "Up the Long Ladder" on TNG, but his higher position on the DS9 cast made him confident that he could demand rewrites this time. Nana Visitor, who played Kira Nerys, was horrified when the writers began to overtly Ship Tease her character with Dukat, and protested to the producers that there was no way that the character would ever develop romantic feelings for somebody who had personally overseen the brutal occupation and genocide of her culture. In her own words: "I remember Ira [Steven Behr, the showrunner] and I on opposite ends of that ops table yelling at each other". As a result, the plotline was abandoned. Most of the fandom thinks that this was on balance a good thing. The episode "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" was the result of Visitor's campaigning — with the producers teasing Visitor that "no, you aren't having a relationship with Dukat, but your mother did."note she was blackmailed into becoming his comfort woman during the Occupation in exchange for ensuring her family's safety — which, given Kira's Black-and-White Morality, made her a collaborator Visitor had the last laugh, though — the script originally called for Kira to forgive her mother for what she had done, but Visitor insisted that Kira would not be so sympathetic that soon after finding out ("Maybe she could be sympathetic about the subject in 20 years."), and she got her wish. On the other hand, Visitor knew when to pick her battles: she and RenÃ© Auberjonois both opposed the Kira/Odo romance, believing the two characters were better off as friends, but neither of them ultimately stood in the way of them getting together. In fact, Auberjonois was generally willing to go along with whatever the writers wanted, if grudgingly on occasion. Behr, clearly annoyed at much of his cast constantly arguing with him, once praised Auberjonois for this in an interview. In "What You Leave Behind", Sisko was originally going to leave forever, but Avery Brooks argued that a black man leaving his pregnant wife would be full of Unfortunate Implications. In this case, the creators agreed and the ending was changed. It's also been reported that Sisko's reluctance to share the rest of the crew's enthusiasm for the Vic Fontaine holoprogram, because of the racism of real 1950s Las Vegas, was a reflection of Brooks' own opinions.
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Wag the Director / int_77184a72	comment	Victorious: An episode had Beck getting a part in a movie and getting his friends jobs on set as extras. The movie's star, Melinda Murray, is shown to be a diva appears to do this. She demands they redo a scene when she thinks Beck got his line wrong. When it's pointed out that he got his line right, she has him fired from the movie.
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Wag the Director / int_77e22425	comment	The Pinky and the Brain short "Yes, Always". In addition to Brain doing an as-verbatim-as-possible-on-a-family-show recreation of the Orson Welles example cited under Real Life advertising, Brain starts by kicking the entire production staff out, and ultimately gets fed up and storms off. (He returns when he sees a whole horde of mice waiting to replace him.)
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Wag the Director / int_7884e8d1	comment	After the success of Pulp Fiction, Willis went on to star in a film called Broadway Brawler. Never heard of it? That's because it was never finished. Twenty days into filming, Willis (who was a producer) fired the director, the other producer, the cinematographer, and several other crew members. Another director was brought in but the studio shut down the production instead, an extremely rare move for an expensive film. To avoid a lawsuit, Willis agreed to star in three movies of the studio's choice. Those three movies: Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense, and The Kid (2000). All three together grossed over $1.3 billion dollars, restoring Willis' status in Hollywood and making the studio very happy.
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Wag the Director / int_78fc0025	comment	Twin Peaks originally planned to have a romance develop between Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne. Kyle MacLachlan objected, stating he felt it would be out of character for Cooper to enter into a relationship with a high school student, although rumor has it that the real reason was because Maclachlan was dating co-star Lara Flynn Boyle at the time, who was jealous of Sherilyn Fenn.
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Wag the Director / int_7a8cef6d	comment	Carry On Dick: Both Laraine Humphrys and Penny Irving had staged protests to Gerald Thomas over the skimpy outfits the Birds of Paradise had to wear.
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Wag the Director / int_7d122312	comment	The plot of an early episode of The Flintstones leads up to Fred and Wilma becoming the main characters of a live sitcom after they and the Rubbles wind up in Hollyrock. Fred lets fame get to his head and, on the night of the premiere, he's handing script rewrites to the director, telling the crew to hold the spot-light over him at all times, and generally acting like a prima-donna toward everyone involved with the show. The director decides that he doesn't want to deal with Fred for the entire run of the show and gives Fred a good dose of stage fright by telling him just how many people are watching Fred.
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Wag the Director / int_7e10ef24	comment	While filming Cop Out, Willis explicitly ignored Kevin Smith's instructions and generally behaved like a dick, to the point that Smith (who previously idolised Willis) said he would never work with him again and would never work with anybody he'd idolised in his youth either.
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Wag the Director / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: In "The Naked Time", where a space affliction removes the crew's inhibitions, the writers initially wanted Sulu to run around threatening people with a katana. George Takei disliked the stereotyping, but instead of complaining, he suggested playing Three Musketeers instead. His suggestion created one of the most memorable scenes in the series. (It also gave him an excuse to show off the fencing lessons he'd taken to un-falsify his claim of knowing how to fence when he auditioned.) In "Plato's Stepchildren", the famous kiss between Uhura and Kirk was originally supposed to have another male lead, but Shatner insisted that "if anyone is going to kiss Nichelle, it's going to be Captain Kirk!" Shatner's prima donna antics in general behind the scenes would lead to pretty much the whole cast (excepting Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley, who were Shatner's dear friends throughout) hating him for many years. Nichelle Nichols famously went off on Shatner during a later interview that he was conducting with her, starting her rant with "Okay, here's the reasons why I despise you." The importance of the bi-racial kiss is in fact one of the only instances where she and Shatner agreed. Star Trek: The Next Generation: A positive example — on the first season episode "Angel One", Patrick Stewart sought to have the script changed to remove the sexist elements. He was overruled, resulting in a thoroughly despised episode. Stewart also wasn't too thrilled with his stodgy, preachy, apparently sexless Captain in Seasons 1-2, and intimated that he might leave the show if something wasn't done about it. Actually, the phrase he used according to Ron Moore was, "there isn't nearly enough shooting and screwing on this show." The vacation episode, "Captain's Holiday", was tailor-made to please Patrick. According to the legendary blog of Wil Wheaton, Brent Spiner had to throw what amounted to a polite temper tantrum early on in filming. During the filming of the first batch of episodes, whether Data could use contractions in his dialogue changed from writer to writer or director to director. It got to the point where Spiner refused to continue with a scene until the showrunners made up their minds one way or another, permanently. Wheaton added in his blog entry "Given how important it was to the character, I really can't blame him." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the first season episode "If Wishes Were Horses", Colm Meaney, who played O'Brien, vocally protested against the first draft of the script, in which his character would encounter a Leprechaun, believing it to be full of demeaning stereotypes of Irish people. As a result, the episode was rewritten so that the entity would appear as the fairy tale character Rumpelstiltskin. Meaney had been forced to share the screen with some offensively Irish space-colonists in "Up the Long Ladder" on TNG, but his higher position on the DS9 cast made him confident that he could demand rewrites this time. Nana Visitor, who played Kira Nerys, was horrified when the writers began to overtly Ship Tease her character with Dukat, and protested to the producers that there was no way that the character would ever develop romantic feelings for somebody who had personally overseen the brutal occupation and genocide of her culture. In her own words: "I remember Ira [Steven Behr, the showrunner] and I on opposite ends of that ops table yelling at each other". As a result, the plotline was abandoned. Most of the fandom thinks that this was on balance a good thing. The episode "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" was the result of Visitor's campaigning — with the producers teasing Visitor that "no, you aren't having a relationship with Dukat, but your mother did."note she was blackmailed into becoming his comfort woman during the Occupation in exchange for ensuring her family's safety — which, given Kira's Black-and-White Morality, made her a collaborator Visitor had the last laugh, though — the script originally called for Kira to forgive her mother for what she had done, but Visitor insisted that Kira would not be so sympathetic that soon after finding out ("Maybe she could be sympathetic about the subject in 20 years."), and she got her wish. On the other hand, Visitor knew when to pick her battles: she and RenÃ© Auberjonois both opposed the Kira/Odo romance, believing the two characters were better off as friends, but neither of them ultimately stood in the way of them getting together. In fact, Auberjonois was generally willing to go along with whatever the writers wanted, if grudgingly on occasion. Behr, clearly annoyed at much of his cast constantly arguing with him, once praised Auberjonois for this in an interview. In "What You Leave Behind", Sisko was originally going to leave forever, but Avery Brooks argued that a black man leaving his pregnant wife would be full of Unfortunate Implications. In this case, the creators agreed and the ending was changed. It's also been reported that Sisko's reluctance to share the rest of the crew's enthusiasm for the Vic Fontaine holoprogram, because of the racism of real 1950s Las Vegas, was a reflection of Brooks' own opinions. Star Trek: Voyager: According to Trek legend, Kate Mulgrew's reaction to discovering a padded bra sewn into her uniform was to tear it out with her bare hands, march into the writer's room, and slam it on the table, flatly informing them "I'm not wearing this."note Purportedly, she and Nana Visitor (who played a career soldier and initially wore a very masculine uniform) were the only two female regulars in all of Berman-era Trek who went without "enhancement". When asked about the story, Robert Picardo wasn't able to corroborate it but conceded that "it sounds like something Kate would say".
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Wag the Director / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US), Jon Krasinski refused to go along with the producers' idea that he would give into temptation with Cathy in the 8th season. According to the show's producer Brent Forrester, when they further pursued the idea of Jim and Pam's marriage falling apart in Season 9, test audiences hated it, so they didn't continue.
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Wag the Director / int_8667f7b0	comment	One episode of Dad's Army called for Captain Mainwaring to have a grenade dropped down his trousers, prompting him to hastily remove them. However, Arthur Lowe refused to do it, citing a clause in his contract that he not be filmed without his trousers on, so it went to Corporal Jones. This was also why Lowe was absent from the longjohns scene in the film.
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Wag the Director / int_88834661	comment	On Ishtar, he spent a lot of time arguing with Elaine May, getting to the point where they went for days without speaking to each other. Eventually they compromised by shooting every scene twice, one her way and one his. During postproduction, May and Beatty fought frequently in the editing room, and May often left it to Beatty to direct the actors during looping sessions. The joke was (and some people say it was not a joke) that Bert Fields, their mutual agent, was the one with the real final cut on the film.
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Wag the Director / int_89dd130e	comment	The Incredible Hulk: Norton is a fan of the Hulk, and did a rewrite that brought the film closer in line to the comics. The film was better received than the first film. However, Norton's reputation as being difficult to work with was allegedly one of the reasons he was not asked to reprise his role for The Avengers. Though the more commonly known and accepted one was simply a conflicting work schedule — couple that with how well his replacement was received, and Norton's chances of reprising the role are slim-to-none.
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Wag the Director / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Star Trek: Lower Decks: According to her voice actor Tawny Newsome, Mariner was not to appear at all onboard Deep Space Nine in the episode "Hear All, Trust Nothing", instead being stuck in her own B-plot onboard the Cerritos. Being a big Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fan, Tawny begged the crew to let Mariner hang out on there and was surprised when they relented, giving her a scene with Kira and Quark at the end of the episode.
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Wag the Director / int_92cfb0f8	comment	Happened twice on What's Happening!!, eventually leading to the show's cancellation. During the second season, co-star Fred Berry demanded a higher salary and better studio accommodations for the actors, a dispute that eventually led to a full-fledged walkout by Berry and star Ernest Thomas during the second season episode "If I'm Elected". In the third season, Berry and Thomas again threatened to strike in demand for another raise. This time, the executive producers opted to cancel the series rather than to give in.
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Wag the Director / int_959dd815	comment	This happens in Professional Wrestling. When a wrestler (or a group of wrestlers) becomes very successful, they gain influence over their bookings. Examples include Hulk Hogan (to the point that "That doesn't work for me, brother" is smark shorthand for this trope in wrestling), Ric Flair (less and less as time went on though), The Kliq (especially Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, and Triple H), and Kurt Angle.Creative and management don't even have a problem with this a lot of the time because it makes the promotion look good when their top stars are... starring. The real problem emerges when otherwise talented stars lower on the card are getting shuffled around and overlooked because of it. Especially since those lower-card stars can end up with their credibility damaged in the eyes of fans, which is a very bad thing if a top star suddenly needs to be replaced without warning (such as a legitimate injury that puts him on the shelf for months). Triple H was of course married to the "director", as Stephanie McMahon was "Head of Creative" for most of the 2000s and 2010s, and would eventually himself be named Head of Creative after Stephanie resigned from the company and chairman Vince McMahon was temporarily ousted from the company after a sex scandal. Vince would later return, and sell the company to UFC's parent company, but Triple H remained as head of creative until a second scandal would oust Vince McMahon yet again. Kevin Nash was named head booker of WCW at some point in 1999, exactly when he took over the booking committee depends on who you ask, Nash himself has given contradictory interviews on whether or not he booked the Fingerpoke Of Doom angle.note Interviews with other people in WCW at the time, including Eric Bischoff, indicate that Kevin Sullivan booked the Fingerpoke and Nash didn't take over until February. His tenure with the pencil was not well received, to put it mildly.
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Wag the Director / int_95f2f572	comment	Nicola Anders is this to Viktor Taransky in S1m0ne, causing him to prefer a simulated actress with no thinking power of her own.
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Wag the Director / int_988629da	comment	Shatner was quite reluctant to do the "getting old" theme in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He was eventually talked into it, but did get his wish that they not include a line which mentioned how old Kirk was.
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Wag the Director / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): Charlie Cox and Deborah Ann Woll have both spoken about working with Season 3's showrunner Erik Oleson with regards to Matt's and Karen's story arcs. In Cox's case, it was about working to seamlessly integrate Matt's character growth from the first two seasons of the show plus The Defenders (2017). Meanwhile, Woll encouraged Oleson to make Karen's past something difficult for her to endure and avoid the misogynistic and sexualized violence that Karen was subjected to in the two comics storylines that most prominently feature her (becoming a drug-addicted porn star who indirectly gives up Matt's identity to Fisk in a moment of weakness in Born Again, and her fridging at the hands of Bullseye in Guardian Devil). During the production of Daredevil Season 3, she worked very closely with showrunner Erik Oleson to ensure Karen's backstory steered towards something that made her more heroic. In one interview prior to Season 3, she said, "If we ever do delve into Karen's past, please don't make it that she shot someone while saving a busload of children. You know? I wanted to encourage him to make this difficult, make it something hard for her to get over, and so we can hopefully pull off something pretty interesting. I like the idea of compromising the character in some way, but I just don't know that it has to be sexual, or that it has to be in a way that causes her to lose her strength." The end result is that Karen is a former drug user, who was in a toxic relationship with a drug dealer, and she kicked the habit after she got her brother killed while driving under the influence. She never gives Matt's identity up to Fisk due to Fisk figuring it out all by himself. And her death in Guardian Devil ends up being subverted at the last second by having Dex kill Father Lantom instead.
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Wag the Director / int_9a6329aa	comment	This is the whole second act of Living in Oblivion: the big-shot actor causes all manner of chaos when he keeps trying to change the scene, sometimes out of creative differences from the director and sometimes out of spite due to estrangement with his co-star.
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Wag the Director / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: In "The Naked Time", where a space affliction removes the crew's inhibitions, the writers initially wanted Sulu to run around threatening people with a katana. George Takei disliked the stereotyping, but instead of complaining, he suggested playing Three Musketeers instead. His suggestion created one of the most memorable scenes in the series. (It also gave him an excuse to show off the fencing lessons he'd taken to un-falsify his claim of knowing how to fence when he auditioned.) In "Plato's Stepchildren", the famous kiss between Uhura and Kirk was originally supposed to have another male lead, but Shatner insisted that "if anyone is going to kiss Nichelle, it's going to be Captain Kirk!" Shatner's prima donna antics in general behind the scenes would lead to pretty much the whole cast (excepting Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley, who were Shatner's dear friends throughout) hating him for many years. Nichelle Nichols famously went off on Shatner during a later interview that he was conducting with her, starting her rant with "Okay, here's the reasons why I despise you." The importance of the bi-racial kiss is in fact one of the only instances where she and Shatner agreed.
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Wag the Director / int_9dab421d	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Johnny Depp infamously decided to act like his character, Captain Jack Sparrow, was drunk the entire movie. This was instead of trying to act like a more traditional pirate badass like the directors wanted. When the directors gave Depp an ultimatum about this, Depp responded with "Trust me, or fire me." Sparrow became the Breakout Character of the franchise. Note that the character's creators were reported to be pleased with Depp's take, as it actually fit their idea of him as a trickster much better than a straightforward action hero.
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Wag the Director / int_9ea4ee1b	comment	On the set of The Score, Brando's final released film, he constantly called Frank Oz "Miss Piggy". Pretty soon Oz refused to speak to Brando, and co-star Robert De Niro had to step in and direct all of the scenes with Brando. Like Apocalypse Now and various other examples of this trope, it might have improved the film.
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Wag the Director / int_a183d57f	comment	The quote at the top of the page comes from Calculon in Futurama. After Bender is cast to play a part in "All My Circuits", his horrible acting forces the director to rewrite his role so he's in a coma. Calculon does his lines for the scenes, emphasizing how his nephew is now in a permanent coma. Bender refused to take this, so he gets up, introduces himself and starts dancing around. When the director says they'll have to re-shoot the scene, Calculon tells him off.
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Wag the Director / int_a20b3b4c	comment	While recording lines for the game Star Trek: Judgment Rites, William Shatner's Canadian pronunciation of the word "sabotage" — "sabba-taj" — riled the director, who suggested he pronounce it as "sa-bo-tawj". Shatner refused, saying, "I don't say 'sabotage'. You say 'sabotage'. I say 'sabotaaage'." He quickly followed up with, "Please don't tell me how to do it. It sickens me." The recording got passed around and the lines became a meme of the early internet. Sometimes the quote is misattributed to a recording for an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series, from twenty years earlier, in which Shatner also pronounces "sabotage" distinctively, as he does even in the original series itself.
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Wag the Director / int_a32b6a64	comment	On The West Wing, Richard Schiff rejected the infamous secret military space shuttle leak plot, arguing his character would never do such a thing. He did ultimately play the stuff more or less as written by the post-Sorkin writers, but the way he acts it one can't help but wonder if he's covering for somebody. To this day, the plotline doesn't sit well with fans and quite a few fans agree with Schiff over the writers.
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Wag the Director / int_a375e3e2	comment	On his final film, The Shootist, John Wayne saw that the final shoot-out was edited to show him shooting a guy in the back. He said, "I've made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it." They did. However, Wayne had shot men in the back in several of his movies, including The Searchers. Wayne was also highly self-conscious of his public image, considering it unmanly to be photographed in production stills while makeup was being applied with a powder puff. He also insisted on using a particular reddish tint of makeup, which flattered his complexion but created headaches for cinematographer Bruce Surtees. Most importantly, he insisted on toning down the profanity and more explicit references to cancer from the original novel.
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Wag the Director / int_a6e37aa4	comment	A positive example from Sixteen Candles: Carlin Glynn, who plays Brenda, confronted John Hughes about the fact that the script didn't call for her to apologize for forgetting her daughter's birthday, despite the fact that her character was described as a good and attentive mother. Hughes agreed and added the scene where Brenda tearfully apologizes to Sam.
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Wag the Director / int_a8e835c0	comment	Stanton's general moodiness and constant grumbling about money prompted Cox to consider writing him out of the rest of the film and giving his remaining scenes to Lite. Michael Nesmith vetoed this plan, so Stanton stayed in the picture. It also helped a little that Stanton noticed how the crew revered Muller, and began to do so in turn. So if Cox wanted something done, he'd sometimes tell Stanton that it was "for Robby". It worked.
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Wag the Director / int_aa7d9eae	comment	Scream has an example with Rose McGowan wagging not the director but the wardrobe and set departments. Her character Tatum was conceived as a tomboy, who wore things like denim overalls and had posters of the Indigo Girls on her bedroom wall. Rose wanted to make Tatum softer and more feminine, rejecting any of the clothes picked out for her and buying all the eventual outfits herself. She also physically tore down the aforementioned posters from the set, and instead stuck up posters of kittens. This was all in the hopes of making Tatum's death scene feel like Kill the Cutie.
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Wag the Director / int_ae9fb66d	comment	In Om Shanti Om bratty star Om Kapoor, after belatedly realizing that his role in the movie he is currently filming is an over the top Oscar Bait Inspirationally Disadvantaged man, decides that the scene that he is supposed to film that day is boring and basically forces the director to hastily make a Item Number (with Om being the Item) set to disco music, and shoehorn it into the plot under the guise of a "mental lanscape" reflecting what his character is supposed to feel. To Om's credit, the scene the music number is replacing really is that boring, but still.
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Wag the Director / int_afeeacf6	comment	Due to his exhaustion with Star Wars (going far back as 1980), Ford only agreed to play Han Solo again in The Force Awakens on the condition that he was killed.
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Wag the Director / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied in a Cinema Classics skit on Saturday Night Live where film historian Reese De'What (Kenan Thompson) analyzes a movie called "Unwanted Woman." He explains the director was blackmailed by his mistress into hiring her brother to work on the film. Said brother just happened to be a mentally-challenged taxidermist, leading to various scenes with utterly hideous stuffed animals getting a lot of focus for no reason. De'What then reveals the screenwriter had the same mistress, which led to the characters openly promoting the brother's taxidermy business when their car gets hijacked by a stuffed squirrel.
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Wag the Director / int_b24f49ab	comment	Yet another story actually gives some reason for Glover's demand. Apparently, Universal was only willing to pay Glover $50,000 for his role in Back to the Future Part II (which for a big-budgeted studio tentpole is very low). Glover asked for a raise to a more manageable figure but was fired immediately. But the story doesn't end there. Universal would later use footage of Glover from the first film without his consent, and use heavy prosthetic makeup (which was molded from casts of Glover's own face taken during production of the first film) on Jeffrey Weissman to make him appear to be Crispin for new footage, which led Glover to sue Universal for residuals on using said footage. The lawsuit was successful, which led the Screen Actors Guild to create a new rule on such cases, nicknamed the "Crispin Glover Rule".
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Wag the Director / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The final season originally had a subplot about Ser Davos Seaworth hitting on Missandei of Naath, but Liam Cunningham flatly refused. Apart from the significant age gap between Cunningham and Nathalie Emmanuel (a 28-year age gap, at the time literally twice her age), he also stated that it would significantly retroactively color the audience's perception of his previous fatherly relationships with Shireen Baratheon and Lyanna Mormont. In his words, "You're not undoing my hard work engendering the sympathy of the audience to have him be a perv."
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Wag the Director / int_b36b839d	comment	Hook has a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment where Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts) inexplicably grows to normal size and has a semi-romantic scene with Peter Pan (Robin Williams). Reportedly, this scene happened because Roberts demanded at least one scene in which she acted alongside Williams rather than a greenscreen. This, among other such tantrums and fits of diva behavior, inspired the crew to nickname Roberts "Tinkerhell". Steven Spielberg went on the record to say he'd never work with her again. To her credit, Roberts owned up to her behavior later on, stating she was having relationship problems off-set, but admitting that it was no excuse for such bad behavior.
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Wag the Director / int_b507f2d1	comment	From 2002 until 2009, Shaggy on Scooby-Doo was portrayed as a vegetarian like his voice actor, Casey Kasem. This was following Kasem having quit the role for a few years, after being forced to voice Shaggy in a 1997 Burger King commercial, and only agreeing to return if Shaggy was portrayed as a vegetarian too.
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Wag the Director / int_b72ccd56	comment	On Hard Target, Jean-Claude Van Damme would often second guess John Woo and in post-production, he went with his own editor to make his own edit of the film. Van Damme's version excises whole characters to insert more scenes and close-ups of his character Chance. When asked about this edit, Van Damme replied that "People pay their money to see me, not to see Lance Henriksen".
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Wag the Director / int_b86b5220	comment	Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Naevia's default costume was originally the same Stripperiffic one the background female slaves are seen wearing. Lesley-Ann Brandt felt that, since it's a plot point that Lucretia has preserved her virginity, it didn't make sense for Naevia to be that scantily clad (especially if she'd have to wear the costume for an entire season). As a result, Naevia's outfits were slightly more modest. She however had no problem appearing topless in one episode, and fully nude from behind in a later one. Viva Bianca didn't go into detail, but later said that she had to have lots of meetings and negotiations on what risque scenes she was comfortable enough; joking that as soon as she read the script of the episode "Whore", where Illithyia and Spartacus would have a lengthy sex scene, she told Andy "we're gonna need to have some meetings!"
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Wag the Director / int_b8afddc7	comment	The gratuitous fight scene in The Cincinnati Kid was added at his insistence.
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Wag the Director / int_b9f3ea8b	comment	Giant: George Stevens had a hard time directing James Dean. The problem started with Stevens ordering Dean to get rid of his Actors Studio mannerisms, like moving his head from side to side or hopping while walking. The two argued constantly, and at one point the actor went on strike for three days. Dean even ordered his agent to come to the location to help him deal with the director. He also referred to Stevens as "Fatso" behind his back. In defiance, Dean would often hold up production for hours, causing the film to go over schedule. At one point, Dean was said to have ruined an outdoor scene by yelling "Cut!" and then unzipping his pants and urinating in full view of the crew and visitors on the set.Dean also refused to undergo a lengthy make-up process for his later scenes, claiming "a man of 45 shows his age in thoughts and actions, not in wrinkles." He only allowed them to gray his temples and put a few lines on his forehead. In addition to Dean, Stevens often argued with Elizabeth Taylor. Most of their fights stemmed from his practice of demanding multiple takes without explaining why or offering additional direction to the actors.
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Wag the Director / int_bacbc1a9	comment	The Star: Attempted, with disastrous results. Margaret Elliot is a former A-list movie star whose career is now in the toilet. Margaret's agent asks a sympathetic producer for a favor and winds up actually getting Margaret a screen test for a movie role...but not as the sexy heroine (the part Margaret wanted), instead as the bitter, frumpy older sister. Margaret, who still thinks she's a beautiful star and is unwilling to play an unglamorous supporting part, ignores both the stage directions and the direct instructions of the movie's director. She glams up and plays the role as young and coquettish instead of bitter and dowdy as in the script. She loses the part.
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Wag the Director / int_bad6ce79	comment	During the filming of X-Men, she refused to wear white contacts that covered her eyes (like in the comics) and wanted more lines/scenes. By shooting time for X2: X-Men United, she had more clout, and used it to give herself a bigger part in the movie, and lo, here comes her conversations with Nightcrawler and strange use of powers against the missiles.
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Wag the Director / int_bfd1a7b7	comment	Triple H was of course married to the "director", as Stephanie McMahon was "Head of Creative" for most of the 2000s and 2010s, and would eventually himself be named Head of Creative after Stephanie resigned from the company and chairman Vince McMahon was temporarily ousted from the company after a sex scandal. Vince would later return, and sell the company to UFC's parent company, but Triple H remained as head of creative until a second scandal would oust Vince McMahon yet again.
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Wag the Director / int_c307f555	comment	Growing Pains suffered badly from this after Kirk Cameron became a born-again Christian. Cameron began demanding final say over any and all scripts, demanded that his on-camera love-interest/co-star Julie McCullough be fired simply for appearing in Playboy, and threw tantrums whenever anything remotely sexual happened (be it something harmlessly non-verbal like his character having the keys to his girlfriend's apartment, which Kirk believed would imply that the two were fornicating, or even a fake-out scene where Kirk is shown in bed with another woman, as part of a play he was doing). In 1991, the executive producers had finally had enough of Cameron, and quit the show, which was quietly cancelled a year later. Cameron has tried to continue this into his adult career, one of his most notable demands is he will not kiss any woman on screen who is not his real-life wife, requiring his wife to be cast as a "kiss double". Operative word being "try", since he has nowhere near the star power as an adult that he did as a teen, and his antics have basically killed his career in Hollywood. He nowadays can only find work in low-budget Christian movies, or his own vanity projects.
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Wag the Director / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: William Hartnell demanded that dialogue implying Brotherâ€“Sister Incest between Richard the Lionheart and his sister Joanna in "The Crusade" be removed, as he felt it was inappropriate for a family series. The Incest Subtext was still implied in the performances. Jon Pertwee's run had a mild (and positive) example, in that he was a fan of action movies, which reflected in his Doctor becoming more of a hands-on action-oriented figure than his predecessors. He also was fond of gadgets and incorporated them into the show, notably the Whomobile, which Pertwee personally owned. His final story, "Planet of the Spiders", featured an extended chase scene involving the Whomobile, his old car Bessie, and a gyrocopter, possibly as a farewell gift to Pertwee. Toward the end of his tenure as the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker was becoming pretty insufferable, demanding a minimum of retakes and, because of his volatile romantic relationship with Lalla Ward, occasionally refusing to be so much as in the same room as her. This meant that they did not rehearse scenes with each other and barely even looked at each other on camera. In his final season, Baker met his match with a new production team, led by John Nathan-Turner, who began instituting the now-infamous Limited Wardrobe and other creative edicts. Reportedly, Baker went to the showrunners asking what would happen if Baker left the show as a show of clout, and was very surprised when they called his bluff. A milder version happened much later when Matt Smith, unhappy with how the Eleventh Doctor would dress (word is he was to have a more swashbuckling look, Ã la Jack Sparrow)notePictures are available online of the informal screen tests of various trial outfits. Some would have worked quite well, but most, while not quite being pirate-y, definitely gave off a gothic hipster vibe that would have clashed with Smith's in turns childish and curmudgeon portrayal, so it's hard to argue that his changes weren't for the best., successfully lobbied to have the character's look changed to a more professorial appearance, with the inclusion of the bowtie. Another positive example in Big Finish Doctor Who. Paul McGann pushed for a new look for his Doctor, based on World War I-era navy clothes, as well as a World War I storyline. This happened in Dark Eyes. This played in a very much "ask forgiveness before permission" fashion. McGann had volunteered to do a photoshoot to put together new photos for the Big finish CD covers and production artwork. The producers were overjoyed, as they'd long since gotten tired of reusing the twenty-years-old stills from his original movie appearance. When he showed up in his bluish-black leather overcoat, jeans, white t-shirt, and canvas satchel instead of his Victorian velvets... the producers were still overjoyed, and they were more than happy to work the changes into the script. An appearance by McGann in costume at a convention soon after, which met to wildly positive reactions by the fans, was just icing on the cake. Yet another, which was more a request than a demand, during the second series of the new show: Billie Piper requested an episode where she got the opportunity to be funny, after spending the first season tackling some rather serious material. Hence the episode "New Earth". In "Tooth and Claw", the script originally had Queen Victoria liken Sir Robert to Sir Francis Drake (rather than Sir Walter Raleigh), until Derek Riddell (Sir Robert) pointed out that this would have been incorrect for the reference the Queen was making. "School Reunion" was originally meant to have Sarah Jane Smith be reintroduced as a recovering alcoholic, but Elisabeth Sladen suggested that this be removed. In "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the Doctor was originally supposed to ram the Vespiform into the lake with the car that he and Donna commandeer, until David Tennant objected because he was concerned that that ending would portray the Doctor as a murderer. The casting of Fenella Woolgar (who, coincidentally or not, has starred in the Poirot (1989) series twice as of 2010) as Agatha Christie was made at Tennant's suggestion. In defiance of Robert Shearman's wishes, Christopher Eccleston raged against the lone Dalek in the episode "Dalek" instead of mocking it flippantly. After seeing how well it worked, though, Shearman was pleased. David Tennant disliked the original take of the Tenth Doctor's last words ("I don't want to go") in "The End of Time", where his composure breaks and he really turns on the waterworks as he utters them, feeling that it came across as somewhat unheroic and unbecoming of the character. Instead, Tennant managed to argue for a compromise, where the Doctor is still quite emotional about his regeneration, but is also a bit more subdued and composed about it, which was the version that ended up on-screen. In a similar situation to McGann's new look, when John Simm was asked to reprise the role of the Master in "World Enough and Time"/"The Doctor Falls", he arrived at rehersals having already grown a Beard of Evil, something his previous appearances as the Master had lacked. Steven Moffat decided that it worked.
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Wag the Director / int_c635e8e	comment	Dr. Dre used to have to matchmake Eminem with very strong-willed music video directors to keep him disciplined, because otherwise he'd strongarm the directors into accepting all of his suggestions. (This wasn't due to him being a bully on-set — he would just get excited and start bursting in with ideas.) However, it has been noted that the greater Eminem's level of creative control over his videos, the better the result — compare the video for "Just Don't Give A Fuck" (over which he had no control) to "My Name Is" (in which he wrested control of the video from the director and came up with all of the ideas for scenes that we see). He also directed several of his own videos, particularly "My Band".
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Wag the Director / int_c7599675	comment	In Tootsie, Michael Dorsey has become notorious throughout the entertainment industry for bringing this attitude to every project he ever works on, to the point where by the opening of the film, his own agent has to tell him that no one will hire him as an actor because of it. It gets easier once he assumes the persona of Dorothy Michaels and is able to find more subtle ways to get his ideas across:
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Wag the Director / int_c7f1fdfe	comment	American History X: Director Tony Kaye alleged that Norton had the film re-edited so he had more screen time. Kaye disowned the project, tried (in vain) to have his name taken off the film, and sued New Line for nearly $300 million. However, Kaye's edits had already been rejected by the studio twice before a new editor was brought in with Norton to deliver their own version. The finished product was well received and Norton earned an Oscar nomination, so he apparently won the argument.
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Wag the Director / int_ca5d97f1	comment	In Monty Python's Flying Circus, the film of 'Scott of the Antartic' is changed to 'Scott of the Sahara' purely to satisfy lead actor Kirk Vilb's desire to fight a lion.
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Wag the Director / int_ccae327f	comment	Discussed in Spoony's review of Breaking Dawn Part 2, where he theorizes that Michael Sheen's over the top performance was the result of a bet he had with the other actors to see how far he could go before the director would try and stop him.
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Wag the Director / int_cecf4edb	comment	The release of the Tombstone director's cut on Blu-Ray has re-ignited claims that Kurt Russell was the actual director. Kevin Jarre, the initial director, was fired because he refused to cut the screenplay. Following that, George P. Cosmatos was brought in to finish the film. However, following Cosmatos' death in 2005, Russell claimed that Cosmatos was simply following Russell's orders. He'd been recommended by Sylvester Stallone after doing the same for him on Rambo: First Blood Part II. This was all essentially a dodge around the DGA and the Eastwood Rule, which prevents actors from taking over for a fired director.
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Wag the Director / int_d452935b	comment	Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Lucas Lee. He takes the word out of the director's mouth, uttering "action!" to start his scene. Then he completely derails the scene to beat up Scott. The hapless director (and the rest of the crew) barely react.
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Wag the Director / int_d45b3eed	comment	A pretty dark example of director wagging took place on the set of Blade: Trinity if writer Chris Parry is to be believed. Wesley Snipes didn't like the director (David Goyer, who wrote the first two movies in the Blade Trilogy and co-wrote Batman Begins), and decided to do the least amount of work imaginable in response. He was only on set when a shot required him to face the camera directly (his stunt double had to fill in the rest of the time) and seemed to go out of his way to be a dick to everyone involved when he could be bothered to show up. This also led to the infamous image of Blade's CGI-eyes, which came about because in the scene in question Snipes refused to open his real eyes. This is part of what led to Ryan Reynolds' Throw It In! "He doesn't like me, does he?" and the expansion of Reynolds' part to fill screentime, a lot of it improv. Patton Oswalt elaborated even further on this in an interview with the A.V. Club, revealing that not only did Snipes accuse Goyer of being a racist multiple times with little to no provocation, but eventually stopped speaking to him entirely, communicating only in Post-It notes. And because he was such an intense method actor, he signed each one "Blade".
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Wag the Director / int_d4fdfff4	comment	According to some reports, the romantic relationship in ER between Dr. Benton (played by the African-American Eriq La Salle) and Dr. Corday (played by the white Alex Kingston) ended because La Salle thought that it had Unfortunate Implications suggesting that successful middle-class black people were "above" dating other black people.
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Wag the Director / int_d64ae569	comment	One of several problems associated with Highlander II: The Quickening can be chalked up to Christopher Lambert refusing to participate in the film unless Sean Connery's character (who died in the first film) was resurrected, as the two actors had become very good friends whilst making the original. It probably didn't help that Lambert was forced by his contract to make the sequel; he felt the first movie was a self-contained story that sequels would only spoil. He did guest-star in the pilot of the Highlander: The Series though.
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Wag the Director / int_d6d0eb5e	comment	Eve Torres was originally going to drop the Divas' Championship to Kaitlyn at the 2013 Royal Rumble, but she pushed for it to happen earlier at the 20th anniversary of Raw — which was in Kaitlyn's hometown of Houston. She also claims that the creative team just wanted to remove her without explanation (as she'd be retiring once she dropped the title), but she insisted on having a segment where she quits in kayfabe.
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Wag the Director / int_dad73e07	comment	The disability fake out/somersault scene in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was Gene Wilder's idea, and he only agreed to take the title role on the condition that it was used. Director Mel Stuart had been so eager to give Gene the part that he didn't make him audition in the first place. He also had total control of his costume, from the dimensions to the colors to the number of pockets.
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Wag the Director / int_dd8198f3	comment	In an episode of Las Vegas, Jean-Claude Van Damme (appearing As Himself) is shooting an action movie in Las Vegas. He demands to perform a dangerous stunt himself where his character drives a motorcycle off the roof of the casino and goes around the director's back to do so. Van Damme's agent tells him that he was right when he said who would really be in charge. Van Damme subsequently dies because the stunt was rigged for failure.
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Wag the Director / int_de6659ec	comment	A positive example in Once Upon a Time. Lana Parrilla felt her character Regina was too one-dimensional in the first season, and pushed for Henry to become her Morality Pet. This led to Regina getting a Heelâ€“Face Turn in the third season.
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Wag the Director / int_dfabfce5	comment	Red Dead Redemption 2: At the time of filming a scene in which Dutch van der Linde and his followers aim their guns at Arthur Morgan and John Marston in Beaver Hollow in the final part of Chapter 6, voice actor Gabriel Sloyer would never believe that his character, Javier Escuella, would turn his own weapon against his "brothers" and thus go against his good nature (according to an interview with Sloyer). Though Rockstar initially rejected Sloyer's idea of getting Javier's reluctance to aim his gun at Arthur and John into the scene, Sloyer insisted that they get that part in, until Rockstar finally gave in to his request.
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Wag the Director / int_e0a3520f	comment	Wednesday: Jenna Ortega, who played the show's title character, was not a fan of the writing in season one, and stated that she "put [her] foot down" with regards to character beats for Wednesday Addams that she felt were inconsistent, to the point of refusing to say certain lines or changing them right before filming. In particular, she hated the Love Triangle between Wednesday, Xavier, and Tyler, and disagreed with executive producer Tim Burton on Wednesday being a completely Emotionless Girl, which she felt would've done the plot a disservice given that Wednesday was the main character and thus needed to carry most of the story's emotional beats. It ultimately paid off, with Wednesday becoming a smash hit and a Star-Making Role for Ortega, whose performance was singled out for praise by critics.
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Wag the Director / int_e25322af	comment	The Homestar Runner short "The Next Epi-Snowed!" parodies this phenomenon. Crack Stuntman, the voice actor for Gunhaver from the Cheat Commandos Show Within a Show, disrupts recording by making a series of increasingly ridiculous demands. In the end though, after producer A. Chimendez writes himself into the plot to stop the nonsense...
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Wag the Director / int_e293455a	comment	In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike wasn't meant to last long but James Marsters wanted a job, so he played lines that were meant to be dismissive of Drusilla as instead reacting to her like the most doting boyfriend. It worked. He also hated the infamous Attempted Rape scene in "Seeing Red" so much that he had a clause put in his contract stating that he would never have to do anything like that again.
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Wag the Director / int_e6695c62	comment	Hudson Hawk was Bruce Willis' vanity project, and he battled throughout with director Michael Lehmann and producer Joel Silver. Richard E. Grant devoted an entire chapter of his memoir to the ugly production.
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Wag the Director / int_e7d7dc9a	comment	In Found Footage 3D, Derek, the co-writer and male lead of Spectre of Death 3D who is already the subject of much Hostility on the Set due to his ongoing breakup with his wife and co-star Amy, increasingly takes over the film's production as it goes on. One of the main signs of his growing ego is that he tries to rewrite the film so that his character survives, even though the film they're making, being a found footage film, is supposed to be an in-universe Apocalyptic Log that ends with everybody dead (the "first rule of found footage").
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Wag the Director / int_e7efd7dd	comment	On Bonnie and Clyde, he and Arthur Penn quarreled constantly during filming, as the star questioned almost every one of the director's choices. As a result, the rest of the cast often spent hours waiting for them to settle their differences. One major bone of contention was Penn's insistence that they add a scene in which Bonnie and Clyde pretend to be dead. Beatty insisted the idea was ridiculously pretentious, but Robert Towne tried to write it anyway. The writer soon realized that Beatty was right, but cautioned him to avoid a confrontation on the matter. In his opinion, Penn was only holding onto the idea out of insecurity — he couldn't admit he was wrong. After a few weeks of filming bolstered Penn's confidence, Towne was sure he'd drop the idea, which is exactly what happened.
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Wag the Director / int_e8286c80	comment	In Sayonara, he spontaneously gave his character a southern (US) accent. This thoroughly irritated director Joshua Logan, who felt that a general's son wouldn't speak that way. He later said it ended up working anyway.
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Wag the Director / int_e93b2f62	comment	Subverted early on in the production of The Fly (1986) according to producer Stuart Cornfeld, who recounted the story on the Projection Room podcast: Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, actual lovers at the time, were cast as Seth and Veronica and prior to the first table read of the screenplay were extensively rehearsing together and adding a lot of improvised dialogue. They incorporated this into the table read. When it was over, writer-director David Cronenberg simply and coolly announced that everyone would take a break, and then those who wanted to do the script as written would return for another go-round. Goldblum and Davis returned, and the finished film's dialogue is near-exactly what Cronenberg wrote (the more elaborate DVD releases include the shooting script as a bonus feature).
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Wag the Director / int_ea6a4e00	comment	During filming of Cannibal Ferox, Giovanni Lombardo Radice refused to kill the animals himself, meaning director Umberto Lenzi had to hire a stuntman to do the killings. When Lenzi told Radice that Robert De Niro would have done the animal killings, Radice replied, "De Niro would have kicked your ass all the way back to Rome!"
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Wag the Director / int_eb70d058	comment	A positive example with Sasha Banks and Bayley — who lobbied for Women's Tag Team Championships so hard that Vince eventually gave in.
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Wag the Director / int_ebcccd7c	comment	It's been rumored that the reason that The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest wasn't quite as good as the two previous Millennium Series adaptations was that the director was basically letting Noomi Rapace call the shots when it came to her character — a character that she'd grown to resent so much that she's joked about spending the last day of filming vomiting every last trace of Lizbeth Salander out of her.
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Wag the Director / int_ed0803a7	comment	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: There were a few lines that Nichelle Nichols refused to say, given their racist nature (said about Klingons in the movie, but they could easily have applied to African Americans). Some were cut, others were given to other characters. She also disagreed with the scene about needing to race through books to find the translation for Klingon, stating that as the Communications Officer she should be able to speak Klingon. She was overruled. Ironically, Reboot Uhura would be established as speaking fluent Klingon. William Shatner tried it when it came to the line "Let [the Klingons] die!" Every take, he immediately recoiled as if in horror at what he'd just said. Director Nicholas Meyer promised Shatner they wouldn't cut the recoil. Guess what got cut. During the final battle, Captain Sulu and the Excelsior was supposed to arrive dramatically and use its charting gaseous anomalies equipment to jury-rig a heat-seeking photon torpedo. Shatner, however, insisted that the Enterprise should save itself. In consequence, the Excelsior arrives just in time to be shot at, and the gaseous-anomalies equipment is magically onboard the Enterprise instead.
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Wag the Director / int_edb68237	comment	He only agreed to be in The Great Escape on the condition that motorcycle stunts were added in just for him. The studio complied for the most part, but did not allow him to perform the iconic jump over the fences. A stunt double rode the bike during that shot for insurance reasons and because the studio did not want their big star to land in the hospital.
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Wag the Director / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: According to Trek legend, Kate Mulgrew's reaction to discovering a padded bra sewn into her uniform was to tear it out with her bare hands, march into the writer's room, and slam it on the table, flatly informing them "I'm not wearing this."note Purportedly, she and Nana Visitor (who played a career soldier and initially wore a very masculine uniform) were the only two female regulars in all of Berman-era Trek who went without "enhancement". When asked about the story, Robert Picardo wasn't able to corroborate it but conceded that "it sounds like something Kate would say".
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Wag the Director / int_f124f6ea	comment	The shooting script for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band called for Peter Frampton's character to kill Steven Tyler's, but when it came time to film this scene, Aerosmith threatened to walk out. "There's no fucking way that Steven is gonna get directly offed by Frampton," commented Joe Perry. "It's gotta be an accident, the way it was in the original script we fucking agreed to." They finally agreed to a compromise, with Tyler's character being accidentally pushed to his death by Sandy Farina.
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Wag the Director / int_f1da64b5	comment	When working on The Lord of the Rings, Viggo Mortensen regularly provided input on how Aragorn should behave and what kind of props he should carry, including hand-crafting a few himself. This was a case where it worked out well, as most of his advice was in the direction of making Aragorn more convincing as an outdoorsman, and the team mostly deferred to his knowledge. A specific example of this was Viggo suggesting that Aragorn carry a small hunting bow (something he doesn't do in the book), arguing that a guy with Aragorn's lifestyle would probably need to hunt game regularly, and he'd need a bow to pull that off. The production team agreed and made the bow, and it even sees use in a few action scenes.
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Wag the Director / int_f2041376	comment	In later seasons of Charmed: Holly Marie Combs later detailed times where the execs tried to force her to wear push-up bras — often by having the wardrobe department not give her any other options. She responded by just going braless. Rose McGowan was fed up of Paige being written as someone who Really Gets Around. After one episode where there was just one scene of her on the couch with an extra, she went to the writers and said "Paige isn't a ho" — resulting in Paige getting romance arcs in the next three seasons. All three actresses hated the increasingly Stripperiffic outfits they had to get dressed up in whenever one of them was transformed into a Cute Monster Girl. Before the final season, they went to producers and complained. Part of the reason for Billie's introduction was for a young female to provide Fanservice. A proposed storyline for Season 5 was a romance between Paige and Cole. Both their actors found the idea disgusting and refused to go through with it. Kayley Cuoco burst into tears when she saw the skimpy superhero outfit she'd have to wear in "Battle of the Hexes". The costume was supposed to have a cape as well, but she refused to wear it.
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Wag the Director / int_f32dccb0	comment	Another positive example comes from All the Right Moves, where Lisa is nude during the two sex scenes she has with Stef. Lea Thompson, being young at the time, was nervous and apprehensive about being nude in front of the camera, so Tom Cruise talked to the producers and convinced them to only have one sex scene, and was naked as well in the remaining scene to ease her worries. Thompson said in an interview in 2018 that she was still grateful to Cruise for standing up for her, even three decades after the film was shot.
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Wag the Director / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Phoebe may have had a Hilariously Abusive Childhood, but Lisa Kudrow refused to do a joke involving being molested as a child. The Season 5 finale, "The One In Vegas", was planned to have Chandler, feeling insecure about Monica having lunch with Richard, cheat on her with a member of the Las Vegas hotel staff. Matthew Perry put his foot down and refused to film it, telling the creators the audience would never forgive Chandler if he did it.
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Wag the Director / int_fcacaa36	comment	The Man in the High Castle: Rufus Sewell refused to wear an SS peaked cap with a Death's Head emblem, believing this to be too strongly associated with the death camps and would harm his character John Smith's portrayal as an Anti-Villain. As a compromise, he was given a fictional uniform with an SS runestone instead.
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Wag the Director / int_fcc7ec6b	comment	After Triple H won King of the Ring, he refused to wear a crown. When he was going to be crowned the first time by Mankind, HHH instead took the crown and smashed it over Mankind's head. This was tried a few more times, but the end result was always the same. Finally, creative gave up on the idea of geting him to wear the crown. It later became Hilarious in Hindsight, as one gimmick in The New '10s was him declaring himself "The King of Kings" and sporting a crown during his entrance.
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Wag the Director / int_fd49dcff	comment	Her demands in Die Another Day that, among others, she be featured in front of Pierce Brosnan, freaking JAMES BOND, on the movie poster.
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Wag the Director / int_fdb030a8	comment	Training Day originally ended with Alonzo being a Karma Houdini, but Denzel Washington insisted that he get his comeuppance.
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Wag the Director / int_fe08cb30	comment	The Punisher (2017): Jon Bernthal was very aware throughout filming that Frank Castle should not come off as a completely admirable hero, and in a few scenes convinced the writers to more clearly play up his darker nature.
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Wag the Director / int_fe4a2e7f	comment	In The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Brando was the one who came up with all of the bizarre choices regarding Moreau. His all-white costume, elaborate hat and being introduced in a palanquin-like vehicle was because Brando thought Moreau should resemble the Pope as he was blaspheming against nature. Brando's discomfort from the heat was simply added to Moreau's character, leading to the infamous scene of Moreau wearing an ice bucket on his head and asking his "daughter" Aissa to fill it with ice and the pancake-like white makeup he wears in outdoor scenes. Brando also took a shine to his costar Nelson de la Rosa, a minor dwarf celebrity from the Dominican Republic, and insisted that the script be rewritten to have his character Majai be with him in all scenes. This is what is rumored to have inspired the scene where Val Kilmer wears one and does a not-at-all Affectionate Parody of Brando after his character has gone insane. It was a Take That! by the rest of the cast and crew.note Ironic, since by most accounts, Kilmer was just as bad on set, if not worse.. The one request Brando made that was turned down was having Moreau wear some sort of hat in every scene only for the hat to fall off in his last one to reveal a blowhole, thus making Moreau himself a dolphin-human hybrid.
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Wag the Director / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: A positive example — on the first season episode "Angel One", Patrick Stewart sought to have the script changed to remove the sexist elements. He was overruled, resulting in a thoroughly despised episode. Stewart also wasn't too thrilled with his stodgy, preachy, apparently sexless Captain in Seasons 1-2, and intimated that he might leave the show if something wasn't done about it. Actually, the phrase he used according to Ron Moore was, "there isn't nearly enough shooting and screwing on this show." The vacation episode, "Captain's Holiday", was tailor-made to please Patrick. According to the legendary blog of Wil Wheaton, Brent Spiner had to throw what amounted to a polite temper tantrum early on in filming. During the filming of the first batch of episodes, whether Data could use contractions in his dialogue changed from writer to writer or director to director. It got to the point where Spiner refused to continue with a scene until the showrunners made up their minds one way or another, permanently. Wheaton added in his blog entry "Given how important it was to the character, I really can't blame him."
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