Random Actors Whose Costumes And Makeup Nearly Killed Them On Set (15 items)

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  (#3) Tobey Maguire

  • Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tropic Thunder, The Great Gatsby, Seabiscuit, Empire Records, Pleasantville, Rock of Ages, The Cider House Rules, Wonder Boys, 25th Hour, The Ice Storm, Deconstructing Harry, Brothers, Cats & Dogs, Ride with the Devil, The Wizard, Seeking Justice, Country Strong, This Boy's Life, Labor Day, The Good German, Quiet Type, Healer, Revenge of the Red Baron, Don's Plum, The Details, S.F.W., A Child's Cry for Help, Seduced by Madness, Whatever We Do, Beyond All Boundaries, Joyride, Duke of Groove, In Spite of Love, Pawn Sacrifice, Tales from the Whoop: Hot Rod Brown Class Clown, The Spoils of Babylon, Z for Zachariah

  The upside-down Mary Jane/Peter Parker kiss in Spider-Man is one of the most iconic superhero film scenes - but it wasn't as romantic as it looked. As Tobey Maguire hung upside down, his mask forced rain water into his nose, turning the on-screen romantic kiss into more of a CPR situation on set. 
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  (#2) Buddy Ebsen

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, Davy Crockett: The River Pirates, Captain January, Attack, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, Broadway Melody of 1936, The Andersonville Trial, The Interns, Mail Order Bride, Broadway Melody of 1938, Stone Fox, Parachute Battalion, Born to Dance, Yellow Jack, Between Heaven and Hell, The Bastard, Red Garters, My Lucky Star, Banjo on My Knee, Night People, Four Girls in White, Working Tra$h, Fire on the Mountain, The Kid from Texas, Rodeo King and the Senorita, Silver City Bonanza, The Horror at 37,000 Feet, Sing Your Worries Away, Pioneers of Primetime, Frontier Rangers

  The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is famous for the deadly problems it caused the cast and crew. Actor Buddy Ebsen, who originally played the Tin Man before being replaced by Jack Haley, was one of its more famous victims. In order to make him appear silvery as the Tin Man, MGM decided to cover him in white face paint coated with aluminum dust.

  Nine days into filming, Ebsen went to the hospital for shortness of breath and cramping. He was hospitalized for two weeks, and at one point his lungs even failed. He was replaced by Jack Haley while he was still recovering. 
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  (#10) The Costumes On Star Trek: The Next Generation Gave The Cast Back Problems

  When Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted in 1985, creator Gene Roddenberry decided that Spandex was the material of the future. Unfortunately, spandex stretches only from side to side or top to bottom, depending on how it's cut. The costumes dug into the cast's shoulders, and considering they had to wear them for 12-15 hours a day, it was not long until many of the cast members developed painful back problems.

  Fortunately, the uniforms were upgraded by Bob Blackman during Season 3.  
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  (#9) Jim Carrey

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Batman Forever, Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, The Truman Show, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar, The Cable Guy, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Kick-Ass 2, A Christmas Carol, Peggy Sue Got Married, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Me, Myself & Irene, Man on the Moon, The Majestic, Once Bitten, Simon Birch, The Number 23, Fun with Dick and Jane, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Yes Man, Horton Hears a Who!, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Dumb and Dumber To, The Dead Pool, I Love You Phillip Morris, Pink Cadillac, Earth Girls Are Easy, High Strung, Copper Mountain, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Loomis Fargo, Doing Time on Maple Drive, Under the Sea 3D, The Sex and Violence Family Hour, Finders Keepers, Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians, Rubberface, Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All, All in Good Taste, Used Guys, Presidential Reunion, Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act, Comic Relief IV, On Location: The Comedy Store's 11th Anniversary Show, Cold Dead Hand with Jim Carrey, Pecan Pie, Drunk History Christmas, Comic Relief V, Nantucket Film Festival's Comedy Roundtable, Ricky Stanicky, Ace Ventura

  Funnyman Jim Carrey has said that the special contact lenses he had to wear on the set of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas made him feel like he had knives in his eyes. The costume itself was so vastly uncomfortable and made Carrey feel so claustrophobic that a Navy SEAL had to coach him through dealing with the panic attacks wearing it gave him. 
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  (#1) Jennifer Lawrence

  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, X-Men: First Class, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Winter’s Bone, House at the End of the Street, The Beaver, Like Crazy, Serena, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, X-Men: Apocalypse, Joy, The Burning Plain, Garden Party, The Poker House, Company Town, Devil You Know, Not Another High School Show, The Glass Castle, Burial Rites, East of Eden

  Jennifer Lawrence signed on to play Mystique in X-Men: First Class before the one-two punch of Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook made her one of the most famous people in the world. It took Lawrence seven to eight hours to get into makeup for First Class, and the process involved six women painting her while she stood around naked. And the makeup came with nasty side-effects, too. 

  “I got a couple of things from the paint,” Lawrence said. “Like weird boils, rashes and blisters. [My doctor] had to pop them.”

  For the second film in the second X-Men trilogy, Days of Future Past, the process was amended so Lawrence wore a suit, and was only painted from the next up, but still, it took three hours, and she hated it so much she considered turning the part down. Among other concerns was her distaste standing around for hours breathing hazardous materials that might cause permanent damage.

  As she told Entertainment Weekly, “I love working with [X-men director] Bryan [Singer], and I love these movies... It’s just the paint…fumes and toxins. Now I’m almost 25 and I’m like, ‘I can’t even pronounce this and that’s going in my nose? I’m breathing that?’”

  If you've seen X-Men: Apocalypse, you surely noticed Lawrence was hardly ever blue. Because she was so famous for that one she just straight up said no. 
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  (#5) Margaret Hamilton

  • The Wizard of Oz, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Anderson Tapes, 13 Ghosts, Brewster McCloud, State of the Union, Nothing Sacred, The Red Pony, My Little Chickadee, You Only Live Once, The Daydreamer, Four's a Crowd, Journey Back to Oz, The Invisible Woman, Guest in the House, Comin' Round the Mountain, Riding High, George White's Scandals, Broadway Bill, The Farmer Takes a Wife, The Night Strangler, Saratoga, When's Your Birthday?, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, By Your Leave, Way Down East, I'll Take Romance, Faithful in My Fashion, The Villain Still Pursued Her, Chatterbox, Hat, Coat, and Glove, The Witness Chair, Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven, A Slight Case of Murder, The Affairs of Martha, Stablemates, Mountain Justice, Driftwood, City Without Men

  1939's The Wizard of Oz featured Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch. While her iconic, copper-based green makeup - which could only be removed with alcohol - irritated her skin and stained it green, it also played a part in a deadly problem on set. During the scene where the Wicked Witch leaves Munchkinland in a flash of smoke and flames, a trap door was supposed to open, allowing her to safely escape, but it didn't.

  Margaret's costume and makeup caught fire. Her face and hands were badly burned and she spent several days in the hospital. 

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