Top 10 Times Actors Forgot Lines But They Still Used the Take

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Even the biggest stars sometimes draw a blank! Join us as we explore those unexpected moments when actors forgot their lines, but directors saw gold in the mistakes. From Jim Carrey's in-character line request to Ben Stiller's perfect model brain freeze, these flubs became iconic movie moments that added authenticity, humor, and unexpected charm to the final films.

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00:00they do as they're told that is not true yes it is derek okay welcome to ms mojo and today we're

00:08counting down our picks for the times actors went up on their lines and it somehow made the whole

00:13scene better i thought it was somebody else i thought it was the spider-man so when everybody

00:18say when i say thank you spider-man everybody go what number 10 give me the line again

00:25lemony snickers a series of unfortunate events in this scene jim carrey's villainous thespian meets

00:32the orphans he's agreed to take in i am your beloved count olaf and welcome to my loverly home

00:44his callous reaction to their parents death isn't dramatic enough the first time so he asks for

00:50another chance at it funnily enough this was carrey himself stumbling over the next line

00:55my dear

00:57violet he stayed in character to ask for another shot at the line count olaf is an actor though

01:07and a particularly hammy one at that he'd want to get this reaction right our parents just died

01:13oh yes of course how very very awful wait let me do that one more time give me the line again

01:21quickly well it's fresh in my mind our parents just died

01:27oh yes the filmmakers decided to leave it in to highlight the character's dedication to being

01:35dramatic if a little tasteless number nine missed q a knight's tale heath ledger stars as knight

01:42william thatcher in this contemporary spin on a medieval story about jousting in the 14th century

01:48release him for god's sake give him back his clothes filmed in the czech republic a knight's tale used a

01:57lot of locals as extras in a scene where ledger's character is introduced by paul bettany's jeffrey

02:03chaucer the crowd is meant to cheer well when the time came the czech extras didn't cheer if they'd been

02:09given a cue they'd either forgotten it or didn't understand it like a wind from goldland he sweeps by

02:16blown far from his homeland in search of glory and honor we walk in the garden of his turbulence

02:25mark adi playing thatcher's friend took this as his cue to remind the extras that it was their time to shine

02:32it serves as a great if unplanned punchline to an awkward moment number eight in my my book diner

02:47barry levinson's baltimore set comedy sees a lot of scenes where the friends are just hanging out

02:52what are you blaming me you took this sandwich i'm sitting i'm having a cup of coffee that's it

02:56no no no no i don't know i do i can't believe you're eating this you know you two play against

03:02me that's what the problem is you're both on each other's side overlapping dialogue unfinished lines

03:07and naturalistic acting means the movie proudly shows off its rough edges and its performance feels

03:13very real as a result one scene has steve guttenberg's character criticizing mickey rourke's character

03:19he can't quite get the line out he and his fellow actors even seem to break character over the line

03:35flop it was kept in only adding to the easygoing informal atmosphere of a bunch of guys just

03:41shooting the breeze together you've gotten like two steps below in my my book

03:46once again i guess you're full number seven the bed the couch titanic when rose asks jack to paint

03:58her like one of his french girls the entire scene is dripping with eroticism he instructs the nude rose

04:04to take her place on the bed but of course he means to say the couch that was a real freudian slip

04:10by actor leonardo dicaprio and the suggestive mistake turns out to be the perfect left hook

04:16of humor for the scene jack's easygoing nature and usual coolness seem to disappear in that moment

04:21overrun the bed the couch we know exactly what's on his mind director james cameron made the wise

04:29choice to keep his mistake in the final cut will you put this back in the safe for me

04:33number six mr gittis chinatown jj gittis to see mr yalbert throughout roman polanski's neo-noir mystery

04:43the menacing and filthy rich noah cross constantly mispronounces private eye jake's last name rather

04:49than calling him mr gittis cross repeatedly calls him mr gitz legendary director turned actor john

04:55houston simply kept forgetting how jack nicholson's character's name was meant to be said polanski thought it

05:02fit the character well gonna be a lot of irate citizens when they find out that they're paying

05:06for water that they're not gonna get oh that's all taken care of see mr gitz either you bring the

05:13water to la or you bring la to the water is he simply uninterested in getting the investigator's

05:20name right or is it a power move on his part how much better can you what can you buy that you can't

05:25already afford the future mr gitz the future now where's the girl either way it adds a lot of

05:34shading to a character whose creepiness relied on his murky intentions and use of soft power

05:39number five peterson's testimony judgment at nuremberg this three-hour historical courtroom drama

05:48fictionalizes the real-life trials of german officials accused of war crimes under the nazi

05:53regime in it several famous actors were called in to play brief but significant roles as witnesses to

05:59the defendants abuses of power montgomery clift played rudolph peterson a man who was forcibly

06:05sterilized by court order what did you reply i told them i didn't know and also that i didn't care

06:14clift who was plagued by a substance use disorder after a tragic car accident that also scarred his face

06:21had trouble remembering his lines and he said she thought the whole thing was terrible and

06:28then the doctor came in who was supposed to do the

06:34and he said he thought it was awful rather than force him to commit the dialogue to memory director

06:43stanley kramer felt that his stumbling half-remembered version of the story was more fitting for the

06:49traumatized man the role saw clift nominated for an oscar take your time

06:55hunter field

06:59here

07:03hunter

07:06they had already made up number four thank you spider-man ant-man and the wasp

07:16quantumania actor ruben rebassa didn't just forget his line he forgot what movie he was in

07:22playing a barista who serves paul rudd's ant-man rebassa gives the superhero an enthusiastic thank you

07:29on behalf of the entire city unfortunately he confuses ant-man for spider-man in the process

07:35rudd's response is priceless everything is ready for you too much no no no no no no your money's no

07:41good he accepts this gesture with the sagging shoulders of a man whose ego has just been

07:47shattered thank you spider-man it's the perfect punctuation on the accidental punchline for a

07:53mistake it's so tonally in line with the marvel cinematic universe's ironic stance on its superheroes

07:59that it's hard to believe it wasn't scripted i made a mistake i say something oh my god well

08:05maybe i'm from cuba that's what the problem is i don't know too much about spider number three

08:10let me touch your hair my big fat greek wedding mia vardalos writes and co-stars in this raucous

08:16romantic comedy about the culture shock of two families becoming one hello

08:21oh i am maria portocallos and welcome welcome to our home canadian comedy legend andrea martin

08:33plays vardalos's aunt vula a lovable overbearing greek woman who fails to grasp the meaning of

08:38vegetarianism ian is a vegetarian he doesn't eat meat

08:43he don't eat no meat no he doesn't eat meat what do you mean he don't eat no meat

08:55oh that's okay that's okay i make lamb in one scene martin holds her hand up to actor john

09:00corbett and begs him to let her touch his hair this wasn't scripted she just forgot her lines so

09:06martin stayed in character and did the only thing she could think of she asked to hold actor john

09:11corbett's hair they played it off so well it ended up in the movie let me touch your hair

09:22okay number two the watch monologue pulp fiction christopher walken's brief appearance in quentin

09:28tarantino's genre-bending crime classic basically amounts to a long memorable monologue about a watch

09:35this watch was on your daddy's wrist when they were shot down on hanoi was captured from a vietnamese

09:43prison camp tarantino is a master of distinctive dialogue but he does love giving his characters a

09:49lot to say and even the most professional performer might have trouble there are at least two moments

09:55where walken seems to freeze his eyes go blank for a moment before he continues on

09:59where your dad looked at it this watch was your birthright you'd be damned if any slope's gonna

10:05put the greasy other hands on his boy's birthright so he hid it in one place he knew he could hide

10:10something his ass some sources assert this is because he forgot his next lines whether it's a mistake

10:16tarantino decided to leave in or a conscious choice that the actor is making to depict the soldier's

10:22shell shock no one seems to know now little man i give the watch to you before we continue

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10:43make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one why male models zoolander

10:51being beautiful and stupid is hard work ben stiller nailed the role of the impossibly vain model

10:57derrick zoolander but one of his funniest moments wasn't planned the character's complete self-absorption

11:03and lack of understanding about anything are actually what made this mistake work so well

11:09so why male models think about it derrick now models were genetically constructed to become assassins

11:16they're in peak physical condition

11:18during a scene where the shady and mysterious david dachovny explains a massive conspiracy in the

11:26fashion underworld stiller forgets his line instead of breaking character he just repeats his question

11:31why male models but why male models his mistake and dachovny's in character response both make it

11:38into the finished film you serious i just i just told you that a moment ago right did any of these movie

11:46mistakes surprise you which one was your favorite let us know in the comments

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