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5. Shyamalan Sells An Air Fryer - Knock At The Cabin
M. Night Shyamalan has appeared in the vast majority of his movies, often in surprisingly large roles, yet in his latest film Knock at the Cabin, he opted to appear in a fleeting cameo so as not to distract from the confined apocalyptic scenario.
If you're wondering how Shyamalan found a way to insert himself into a story singularly focused on seven people facing off inside a cabin, he shows up for a few seconds on a TV inside the cabin.
Mid-way through the movie, as the intruders are cycling through the TV's channels, an infomercial shows a host, played by Shyamalan, peddling an air fryer that's apparently really, really good for cooking chicken.
Considering that so many of Shyamalan's cameos end up having some sort of impact on the plot, often in distracting ways, it was fun to see him play such a gleefully dumb, unnecessary role. According to the filmmaker himself, he almost didn't appear in the film at all:
"Sometimes I'm not in the films because I just can't, it doesn't seem right. And this one I thought, for sure, I'm not going to be in. That's what I thought for sure. And then in pre-production, I was like, 'You know what? I have a funny idea.' And then everybody enjoyed the concept so much. I was like, 'All right, let's go shoot.' It was the first thing we shot, this thing that's in Knock at the Cabin. And I was like, 'This is never going to end up in the movie.' And it did. And the editor was like, 'I love it. It's so funny.' And I was like, 'You sure?'