10 Movie Roles Where The Actor Basically Did NOTHING

10. Eric Stoltz - Anaconda

Eric Stoltz plays the part of anthropology professor Dr. Steven Cale in 1997's cult fave B-movie Anaconda, and though he's very much present for the film's establishing scenes, before the end of the first act he's incapacitated with a wasp sting to the throat.

This leaves Cale confined to the ship's bed for almost the entire remaining hour of the movie, a large portion of which he in fact spends unconscious following a nervous reaction to said wasp sting.

Given that Stoltz was one of the ensemble's better-known cast members at the time - having appeared in Pulp Fiction, Rob Roy, and Jerry Maguire in the years prior - banishing him to bed for the vast majority of his screen time was certainly... a choice.

Cale ultimately plays such a small, insignificant part in the movie that it probably would've made more sense to just have him be one of the giant snake's first victims.