3.In The Princess Diaries, Mia wasn't supposed to trip and fall on the bleachers. That was just a clumsy moment by Anne Hathaway, but director Garry Marshall liked it and kept it in the film.
5.Due to a miscommunication on set in The Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell accidentally smashed an antique guitar from 1870 instead of a prop. You can see Jennifer Jason Leigh scream and look at the crew afterwards.
7.Sylvester Stallone wanted to make sure the boxing scenes looked real in Rocky IV, so he instructed Dolph Lundgren to actually hit him. A punch to the chest left Stallone in intensive care for eight days.
9.Steven Spielberg refused to collect a paycheck for Schindler's List, saying it would have been "blood money" and that all profits should be returned to the Jewish community.
10.Stanley Kubrick destroyed almost all of his props and sets from 2001: A Space Odyssey because he didn't want them to be used in any lesser science fiction films.
11.Matt Damon was the only one in Saving Private Ryan who didn't go through basic training. This was done so the other actors would show resentment towards him, to fit the onscreen character dynamics.
15.In Alien, the actors were not told that the xenomorph was going to explode from Kane's chest, so the shocked reactions from everyone were real, even causing Veronica Cartwright to pass out.
18.In Django Unchained, Leo DiCaprio accidentally cut his hand open during a scene, but he kept acting. He ultimately wiped the blood on Kerry Washington's face.
23.And Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter stunt double was paralyzed while testing a stunt for the final movie, so Radcliffe created a fundraiser to pay for his college education.
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