12 More Truly Terrible Extras Who Ruined Their Scenes

3. Punch Drunk Extra - Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby
Warner Bros.

There's something very romantic about boxing: it's a brutal, balletic art whose distilled drama lends itself perfectly to cinema, which is precisely why there are so many good boxing movies out there.

Million Dollar Baby is one of the very best, telling a brutal, beautiful story that transcends even the limits of the sport, but also fundamentally getting the in-ring sequences right too. It would all have been pretty perfect were it not for the ruinous influence of one of the Extras employed to be in the crowd.

Clearly believing that his character needed to oversell the action to almost cartoonish levels, the over-zealous wannabe star reacts to a single punch like he's won the lottery.

Clearly, someone had a lot of money riding on the fight.

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