10 Times Actors Broke Character In Movies

5. Jeremy Irons - Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons and Dragons 2000 Jeremy Irons
New Line Cinema

We truly don't deserve the magnificence of Jeremy Irons hamming it up for the cheap seats in 2000's otherwise abysmal Dungeons and Dragons film. 

As the evil Mage Profion, Irons makes an art out of no-toss-given line reads, where if he chewed any more of the scenery up, there'd literally be nothing left to shoot the damn thing on.

Irons is clearly having a ton of fun with the role, which was by his own admission a pure paycheck part to pay for a castle he'd just bought.

Yet Irons ultimately has such a whale of a time that he ends up gloriously losing grip of the fierce, evil-with-a-capital-E character he's supposed to be playing.

Late in the film, Irons fires off the unforgettable line, "Let their blood rain from the sky!" but in the final second-or-so of the shot, Irons' mugging turns to grinning laughter, the legendary actor seemingly unable to contain how un-seriously he's taking the job any longer.

 
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