skills of actors from other fields

So, for example, in Keanu Reeves’ debut project Young Blood, the actor played the role of a hockey player, using his real hockey skills, because Reeves played hockey in his school years and even in his student years. And he played very well. So much so that he was given the nickname “The Wall” as a goalkeeper.

But Michelle Pfeiffer had to special study to become a Catwoman. The actress took lessons in using a whip, did gymnastics, yoga and martial arts. Thanks to this, the scene where Catwoman cuts off the mannequin’s head with a whip was filmed in one take.

The director of the 1982 film Blade Runner specifically rewrote some of the scenes with the comfort aneroid played by Daryl Hannah so that the actress could demonstrate her gymnastic skills.

For the title role in Gorillas in the Mist: The Dian Fossey Story, actress Sigourney Weaver played scenes with real gorillas, for which she learned to burp like them and learned various monkey gestures. By the way, for this role, the actress was nominated for an Oscar.

Dustin Hoffman has been playing the piano since childhood and even in his youth wrote a song dedicated to breaking up with a girlfriend. The actor performed this song in the movie Harvey’s Last Chance.

Kurt Russell on the set of the film “Escape from Los Angeles” specially learned to play basketball in order to be able to freely throw balls into the basket without the use of film effects in the right scene.

The character of Ruth Wilson in the film “Dark River” was supposed to be able to shear sheep, for this she specially studied this, and also gained the skill to smoke rats out of the room. She did all this in order to better get used to the role of the character.

Tom Holland got his role at such a young age not only for his beautiful eyes, but also for his acrobatic abilities and plasticity. There are many scenes in the film with stunts that the actor performed himself. So he rightfully deserved to be Spider-Man.

In The Ringleader, Bill Murray had to score 3 strikes in a row in a bowling match. The film crew was sure that it would take about 15 takes and the skill of gluing. True, the directors were surprised when the actor did it from the first take, having properly trained in advance.

According to the plot of The Witness, Harrison Ford was supposed to help build a barn and fix a broken birdhouse. It is not difficult to guess that he managed to do this without problems, because before his acting career he worked as a carpenter. By the way, thanks to this skill, he liked George Lucas, who opened the way for him to the world of Star Wars.

Well, let’s finish with John David Washington, who had to work a lot on himself in order to play in Nolan’s “Tenet”. After all, there his hero had to manage time. To make the action on the screen look more convincing, the actor had to learn not only to move backwards, but also to speak. And for good reason, because it added realism to the scenes.

And what acting talents that came in handy on the set of films do you know?