10 Hilariously Obvious Stand-Ins Who Ruined Their Scenes

Ridley Scott’s tortured masterpiece has been through countless revisions since its initial release in 1982, when a butchered studio-approved cut was derided by both audiences and critics. Time has been kind to the Vangelis-scored flick, with everything from its cyberpunk aesthetic to its philosophical approach to sci fi themes becoming touchstones for later successes in the genre.

One glaring flaw which the original flick had, along with the nonsensical ending cobbled together from leftover Kubrick B-roll, is its frequent and woefully unconvincing use of stand-ins for pivotal scenes. The most blatant and infamous instance of this recurring issue comes in the form of replicant Zhora’s otherwise spectacular, striking death scene.

The operatic atmosphere is punctured brutally by the realization that actress Joanna Cassidy isn’t the one jumping through those glass panes. Stand-in Lee Pullford can’t particularly pass for her, and Scott wisely reshot the entire scene for one of the film’s later, more complete and creator-approved iterations.

The scene is even stranger when you consider that Cassidy was happy to have an actual python around her neck in an earlier scene, though the fact that the reptile was her own pet in real life can’t have hurt.