10 Movie Takes Actors DIDN’T Expect To Be Used

It goes without saying that practically every movie ever made leaves the overwhelming majority of its filmed footage on the cutting floor, as the director and their editor trawl through all the material to find the very best takes.

As a result, actors typically don’t know which of their takes are going to be used for the final cut, as may leave them surprised or disappointed when they finally sit down to watch the completed movie for themselves.

And then there are those times where an actor confidently assumes a take won’t be used for one reason or another, and yet, that’s precisely the one the director ends up using.

And so, inspired by this recent Reddit thread on the very subject, here are 10 movie takes that actors never in their right mind expected to be used.

Perhaps the performer assumed that they blew the take and rendered it unusable, or were just having some fun goofing around while the cameras were rolling. 

Either way, there was no expectation that said take would ever see the light of day, only for the filmmaker to surprise them with its inclusion in the final movie…

Let’s kick things off with one of the funniest and most memorable scenes from any comedy movie of the last 20 years. 

Near the end of Step Brothers, Robert (Richard Jenkins) encourages his son Dale (John C. Reilly) and stepson Brennan (Will Ferrell) to embrace their inner child, offering up an analogy that, as a child, he always wanted to be a dinosaur.

However, his father eventually told him to put down childish things, causing him to “lose” his dinosaur, at which point Robert tells the pair, “Don’t lose your dinosaur.”

It’s an absurd yet hilarious sequence, and yet, one which wasn’t actually in the original script. 

During a 2018 interview on The Rich Eisen Show, Richard Jenkins revealed that filmmaker Adam McKay simply told him to tell Reilly and Ferrell that he wanted to be a dinosaur as a child.

Though Jenkins didn’t really understand the request, he nevertheless complied, ad-libbing a monologue.

Once McKay called “cut!,” however, Jenkins assumed that the monologue simply didn’t work and wouldn’t see the light of day, only for McKay to promptly inform him that it would absolutely end up in the movie – as, indeed, it did.

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