People tend to forget that actors are professionals who are practicing their craft. It takes a lot of training to be able to accurately portray another person and that’s especially true when that person is nothing like the actor or actress playing them.
Whether an actor needs to play someone drunk or sober, they aren’t (usually) going to shoot up actual heroin to make it look like they are shooting up heroin– that’s why they are called actors! Then, there are those times when the scene is so difficult or horribly uncomfortable to shoot, the people involved just need to knock back a drink or two… to take the edge off. Think about it for a second: you need to act in a love scene with a coworker while both of you are married and dozens of people are watching and talking you through it. Even some of the greatest actors of all time needed a shot or two for some of those scenes.
We dug up these times 15 Actors Who Had To Drink (A LOT) For Their Roles.
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