Movies Where Actors Really Did It
If you want a masterclass in suffering, watch 127 Hours. James Franco didn’t actually saw off his arm—thank goodness—but the sound of the bone cracking was real. The sound designer used a real celery stick snapping and a real watermelon splitting. Franco also watched the sound recording later and said, “I can still feel it in my phantom arm.”
And then there’s Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant. He ate a raw bison liver. It was real. He also slept inside a dead horse carcass. That was real, too. He later told a talk show host, “I’m a vegetarian now.” The audience laughed. He didn’t.