10 Times Movies Got Too Real
5. Gary Oldman's Cigar Smoking Leads To Nicotine Poisoning - Darkest Hour
Throughout Joe Wright's 2017 biographical flick Darkest Hour focusing on Winston Churchill's time as British Prime Minister in WWII, Gary Oldman could regularly be found wandering around the screen with a cigar in hand. But his willingness to smoke Churchill's favourite Romeo y Julieta Cubans whenever a scene called for Churchill to boast one, actually led to the insanely dedicated star having to deal with some very real consequences.
Oldman would later note to THR how going through over 400 of these bad boys during production resulted in him getting "serious nicotine poisoning", with the star being handed a three-quarters smoked cigar, finishing it off over the course of a few takes, and then being handed another until they'd completed the scene in question.
That's an awful lot of puffing, folks.
But that ridiculous level of commitment at least paid off for the star come awards season, with the British acting icon earning a long-awaited Oscar for his stellar - and legitimately quite painful - performance as the historical figure.