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It is not a secret that the celebs often put forward their demands while exerting their powers. Their demands become so important that they tend to put them on their contracts so that the production team abides by them. Sometimes, celebrities have talked about their contract demands in various interviews, while other times, their close sources have shared it in public for entertainment purposes.
Celebrities including Keanu Reeves, Nicolas Cage, Reese Witherspoon, and others have quite bizarre contract demands. From getting their own wardrobe to forbidding studios from digitally manipulating performances, read ahead to know more about these contract demands.
Queen Latifah has one of the weirdest clauses in her contract and that is a ‘no-death’ onscreen policy. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight in 2022, she talked about incorporating this demand in her contract because of killing her characters early in her career. She said, “I noticed I was too good at it, so it’s kind of a running joke. I was like, ‘I don’t get to do any sequels if I keep being this good at [dying].’ So I said, ‘Look, you gotta put a no-death clause in these contracts so they can’t just kill me off like this. I’m never gonna get a sequel in!”
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde is a sequel to the blockbuster OG movie, Legally Blonde, where Reese Witherspoon played Elle Woods. Admittingly, the actress shared how she took all of the wardrobe of that character to her home and put it in her contract. On appearing on The Graham Norton Show, she said, “I got all of my wardrobe. I had it written in my contract.” Reese even disclosed that she brought 77 pairs of Jimmy Choo shoes to her home but never wore any of them. However, on the 15th anniversary of the film, she took them out and tried them on.
She further added, “Some of them fit, some of them didn’t. It was really cool. I showed them all to my daughter.”
Keanu Reeves is known for his extraordinary action skills and talent to showcase his acting prowess. However, in his contract, he made sure to put a clause that forbids studios from digitally manipulating his performances. Explaining that in a recent interview with Wired, the actor shared, “Yeah, digitally. I don’t mind if someone takes a blink out during an edit. But early on, in the early 2000s, or it might have been the ’90s, I had a performance change. They added a tear to my face, and I was just like, ‘Huh?!’ It was like, I don’t even have to be here.”
He shared that it’s frustrating to lose his own agency where he knowingly participates to get edited while he gives a different performance. The John Wick actor continued, “If you go into deepfake land, it has none of your points of view. That’s scary.”
Samuel L. Jackson, popularly known for starring in Avenger movies as Nick Fury has quite a bizarre demand. In an old interview with CNN, the actor declared that his clause lets him play golf twice a week. He admitted, “They have to let me play at least twice a week. Generally, they either move me onto a golf course or I join a club so I can play there. I like golf because it’s a perfect game for an only child like me — you get responsibility for everything you do bad, and you get all the credit for everything you do well.”
Nicolas Cage once made quite a weird and life-dangering demand while filming the 1988 movie Vampire’s Kiss. In the scene where he got bitten by a bat, the actor wanted a real one instead of a mechanical bat. In the DVD commentary of the film, the producer Barbara Zitwer admitted that he went crazy to get a real bat so much so that they even decided to bring in a bat from Mexico illegally just for the sake of his sanity. However, the director of the movie, Robert Bierman finally could put some sense into him by telling him that a real and wild bat might actually kill him and ruin the whole project.
Daniel Day-Lewis is known for his method acting. One time he had to drop his British accent to play a character in Spielberg’s movie. After that, one of his co-stars Jared Harris in an interview disclosed how he also had to drop his British accent around him to make him feel at ease and not to throw Day-Lewis off. They even addressed him as Mr President during the shoot.
Well, these are the 6 weird contract demands or clauses that these actors asked for on particular and various projects. Let us know your thoughts about it.
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Life has come full circle for the Baywatch cast as they huddle together after three decades for the Hulu documentary, After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun. Produced by ABC News Studios, the docu-series features the veteran stars of the iconic lifeguard rescue drama as they reflect back on the challenges and joys of navigating through supreme fame in the 1990s.
ABC News released an exclusive featurette on Tuesday, August 26, offering glimpses into the behind-the-scene lives of the Baywatch stars during its 11-season run. “I look back and was like, there really was no better job than Baywatch,” David Chokachi, who starred as lifeguard Cody Madison, quips in the very first scene of the preview.
Sitting beside him is the Stephanie Holden actor, Alexandra Paul, 61, who readily nods before the scene cuts to fleeting glimpses of the Baywatch vibe. Next, Jeremy Jackson, tucked between stars Traci Bingham and Carmen Electra, gleefully exclaims his childhood manifestations finally coming to life.
“Childhood memories finally manifesting,” Jackson laughs while hugging his senior co-stars Bingham and Electra. The 43-year-old actor and singer played David Hasselhoff’s child, Hobie Buchannon.
Nostalgic scenes from the Baywatch era appear on screen while producer and actor Nicole Eggert marked Baywatch, which debuted in 1989, a “fantasy.” Meanwhile, creator Douglas Schwartz boasted about the 1.2 billion viewers, or as he puts it, “the highest volume of viewers” in TV history, who tuned in weekly to catch new episodes.
While the world is aware of the exceptional fame Baywatch was subject to, most never got an idea of the equally stressful challenges the cast and crew had to endure. The Baywatch cast reminisce about how the show changed their lives, but also appreciate the awaited opportunity to share the off-screen struggles with their loyal fanbase.
“So coming together again, we’re just bonded because of that, because of what we went through — the good and the bad that came with that kind of fame,” Alexandra Paul noted while reflecting on the “unique” experiences the cast had once shared.
Likewise, Erika Eleniak acknowledged the opportunity to “speak candidly” about their behind-the-scene shenanigans and the massive impact of the TV show on all realms of their lives. It can be ascertained that the Baywatch cast had been waiting for such an endeavor.
Three decades later, ABC made it possible with the four-part documentary, After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun, reuniting the stellar cast to examine and gather insights into how Baywatch became the most-watched TV show in the world.
Pamela Anderson, a former model for Playboy magazine, who basked in the spotlight for decades, appears around the end of the clip and jokes that she is proud of “almost” all of her work.
One Baywatch actor whom we don’t see in the featurette is Yasmine Bleeth. A major star in the TV industry, Bleeth’s fandom alone once pulled in significant viewers but the actress and model has unofficially retired from the spotlight following a long career in the public eye.
After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun is set to premiere on Wednesday, August 28 on Hulu.
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