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2 Venom: Let There Be Carnage – Performing Venom Attending a Rave Looks Exhausting

We mentioned before how silly the making of Venom looked, and it turns out that the sequel is no exception – plus, it has the added bonus that many scenes also included the participation of Woody Harrelson, who we’re guessing chalked the entire experience up to a funky strain of Sativa. For the Venom effects, sometimes his alien symbiote powers were created using simply a stick holding a stack of mail.

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Other times there was a guy on set wearing a skin-tight bodysuit and a Venom bust on top of their head. In one particularly notable scene, Venom abandons his host Eddie Brock and pops by a rave – for the filmmakers, this meant covering their weary faux-Venoms with glow stick necklaces, giving them a distinct “grotesque alien reevaluating their life choices while going through a midlife crisis” vibe.

It could be that the shoot was strenuous and exhausting – or it could be that this is the moment that whatever was wafting in from Woody’s trailer just hit.

1 Jungle Cruise – The Rock Fights With a Guy in Leopard Print Tights

Perfectly replicating the feeling of being trapped on an unconvincing theme park attraction you paid way too much for, Disney’s Jungle Cruise is basically the thought experiment “What if Werner Herzog made a Pirates of the Caribbean movie?” come to life. One of the many animal characters in the film is Proxima, Skipper Frank’s trusty leopard sidekick.

While a jerky animatronic dummy would have been more faithful to the ride, instead, Disney decided to go the CGI route for the leopard, who, during filming, was played by a guy in a bodysuit seemingly made out of your divorced aunt’s leggings.

Did the leopard print really help sell the illusion for the other actors that this adult man crawling on all fours was an actual, honest-to-goodness leopard? In one early scene, Frank and Proxima stage a fake fight to prove his manliness to a prospective client – even though he’s the only boat captain in town that’s built like a refrigerator leading a CrossFit class. On set, this meant that The Rock had to brawl with this same human performer, and the whole thing looks like a wrestling match between an unusually jacked Popeye and a Ninja trying to make a fashion statement.