10 Planned Movie Scenes Actors Refused To Film
3. Connie's Hair Gets Set On Fire - Pink Flamingos
John Waters' vulgar cult classic Pink Flamingos is the definition of a seat-of-the-pants movie, produced in 1972 for just $12,000 with the cast and crew enduring less-than-ideal conditions to get the picture made.
The film's script evidently asked a lot from its cast - such as Divine (playing herself) eating real dog feces - but when it came to a sequence where Connie Marble (Mink Stole) was to have her hair set on fire, actress Mink Stole couldn't bring herself to agree. In a 2020 interview with Another, Stole said:
"John wanted me to set my hair on fire in the film and I originally agreed to do it before I realised that was absolutely insane. I'd refused to do something I originally agreed to do and I thought Divine would refuse as well because eating dog s**t is absolutely insane. It was truly repulsive but Divine did it and it was completely real and it made history."
Eating dog crap is one thing, but setting your hair on fire on a micro-budget production with no money for a stunt double and no way of making the stunt safer? There's absolutely no blaming Stole here.