10 More Terrible Extras Who Completely Ruined Their Scenes

2. Man Loves Shark Attacks - Jaws

Jaws Extra
Universal

In the prequel to this article, we mentioned the Jaws Extra whose delivery of the simple line "a what?!" was so comically over-blown and inauthentic that it ruined the dramatic impact of what was a key scene, and he wasn't the only background artist at Martha's Vineyard whose work could be classed as sloppy.

Faced with the somewhat difficult prospect of negotiating the surf and also convincingly conveying the immediate threat of a shark attack, one Extra proved that some men actually cannot multi-task at all, by forgetting the second part of his responsibility.

Rather than rushing into the water with the required look of horror and the immediate need to save the poor souls in the drink, the moustachioed Ron Jeremy lookalike instead runs casually into the water, a huge grin on his face, as if larking about care-free on a summer's day.

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