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3. 91-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Did The Desk Dance...With No Assistance - Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins Returns Dick Van Dyke
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Dick Van Dyke makes a brief cameo appearance at the end of Disney's belated Mary Poppins sequel, playing Mr. Dawes Jr., who effectively saves the day but not before treating audiences to a neat little dance on top of his desk.

And while fans would be right to assume the sequence was achieved with the 91-year-old legend attached to wires or with a convincing double, Van Dyke wouldn't have it, and insisted on doing it all by himself.

Better still, director Rob Marshall set up a stool to help the actor get up on the table and even had Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda nearby to give him a helping hand if need be, but the ludicrously spry Van Dyke again refused the aid.

Hilariously, Marshall tried to explain the actor's supernatural litheness, saying, "I know for a fact he goes to the gym every day."

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