10 Movies That Changed Because Of Actors’ Bad Behaviour

1. Marlon Brando Hated Apocalypse Now, So He Sabotaged It

Marlon Brando is pretty much the poster boy for on-set misbehaviour thanks to a couple of notorious movies and his apparent reluctance to do anything that would in any way compromise Marlon's Brand. Good that, isn't it?

Anyway, on Apocalypse Now, Brando was very much only one ingredient in a big disastrous soup that should never have ended up being a finished film let alone a great one. He probably wasn't even the worst part of it all either, but such is the size of his mythology that it's what most people talk about.

Brando couldn't memorise his lines, which was one thing, but he also notoriously turned up massively overweight so Francis Ford Coppola had to dress him in black, bathe him in shadow and shoot mostly just his face. He was essentially forced to hide his biggest draw.

There's some debate over how much Brando was misbehaving and how much his reputation was unfairly attributed as such in hindsight, because his disruption of the shoot and refusal to stick to a schedule actually also led to him rewriting a good deal of the script. And it's not like it's a bad script. So maybe you take the rough with the smooth?

Which other moments of on-set bad behaviour changed movies? Share your suggestions in the comments thread.