10 Times Actors Broke Character In Movies
3. This Extra - Meet The Parents
Instead of an A-list actor now, we've got a background artist who proved themselves the single person unable to avoid corpsing in this heavily populated shot.
Near the end of Meet the Parents, Greg (Ben Stiller) has an altercation with an air stewardess while boarding a plane, and professes that he'll only check his oversized luggage if she manages to pry it from his hands.
Greg says, "If you can get it from my kung fu grip, then you can have it," at which moment an extra on Ben Stiller's far left can be seen cracking up and quickly burying his head below the plane seat in an attempt not to ruin the take.
I mean, the guy is easily noticeable and all, but at least it's contextually plausible that a plane passenger might find what Greg's saying funny. Props to the other extras sat closer to Stiller who remain positively stone-faced throughout, though.