10 Actors Who Prepared Totally WRONG For A Role

It's incredibly common for actors to extensively research the internal lives of their characters in order to get in character, such as working the job that their character does in the story.

And so, it seemed totally reasonable that up-and-comer Harris Dickinson studied as a car mechanic while prepping to play model Carl in last year's Oscar-nominated black comedy Triangle of Sadness.

Except, wait a minute, was there anything in the movie about Carl being a mechanic while breaking into the modelling industry? Nope.

Well, there was in the film's original script, which detailed that Carl was working as a mechanic when he was scouted to be a model.

And so, Dickinson did "a lot of research around cars and being a mechanic," only to turn up on set and be told that this element of Carl's character had been excised from the script during revisions. Dickinson said in an interview with The Guardian:

"I remember getting on set and everything just got stripped about that story... I felt like a bit of an idiot."

All the same, there's nothing in the final film that prevents this from being Carl's secret backstory, so if it helped Dickinson develop a sense of his character regardless of the cuts, then what's the harm? Beyond all the "wasted" time, of course.