The blockbuster film business is just like any other line of work, only the co-workers are hotter, the paychecks are astronomical, and you can't go outside without having adoring fans throw themselves at you. But other than that, it's almost exactly the same. The main difference is that when office workers have a meltdown, they might punch a hole in the bathroom stall and steal a stapler, but when Hollywood actors do it, they'll pull amazingly insane stunts like these.

5 Marlon Brando Demands a Bucket Hat and a Personal Dwarf

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Marlon Brando is responsible for some of the most memorable performances in movie history in films like The Godfather, On The Waterfront, and Apocalypse Now, but he's also responsible for testing the patience of pretty much every director he worked with. The man had an ego the size of a Brando. He held so much power that he could wear an ice bucket over his head and it would wind up in the finished film.

We know this because it actually happened.

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"That had better be Twinkies you're pouring in there."

That's a real still from The Island of Dr. Moreau, possibly the worst movie in Brando's long career, as well as the careers of people who weren't even in it. It was probably this realization that made Brando decide that, if his name was going to be associated with such a turd, he was at least going to have some fun doing it. And so, when filming began, Brando wore something not in the script: a random ice bucket he found. And he refused to take it off.

Brando also wore a radio earpiece that would feed him his lines, in part because the script was constantly being rewritten and in part because he was beyond giving a shit at this point in his life. The problem was that, according to his co-star David Thewlis, the earpiece would sometimes get interference from police frequencies, so Brando would end up acting out lines like "There's a robbery at Woolworth's!"

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That, or Brando was purposely doing that just to fuck with them ... which is highly likely.

And that wasn't even the most bizarre thing to happen on the set. At one point, Brando told the director that he would not perform unless a midget whom he had befriended during production appeared next to him in all his scenes, so then that happened -- you know the miniature version of Dr. Moreau who accompanies him everywhere? That's not in the book or the script. Brando forced them to add all those scenes. And that, friends, is why this happens in the movie: