5 Actors You Didn't Realise Appeared In Your Favourite Movies

by Andrew Pollard

1. Leonardo DiCaprio In Fight Club

Fight Club
20th Century Fox

It's one thing to have your vocals featured in a movie. It's one thing to have a hidden cameo appearance in a movie. But it's something totally different to have your breath appear in a movie.

That was the case for Leonardo DiCaprio in David Fincher's Fight Club.

When Edward Norton's Narrator finds himself in an icy cave with Helena Bonham Carter's Marla, there's plentiful moments where we see Norton letting out an icy breath or two. In reality, the breath seen in the film isn't actually that of Ed Norton.

Instead, these frosty breath shots are actually copy and paste jobs of Leonardo DiCaprio's breath as poor Jack was about to meet his chilly death at the end of James Cameron's Titanic.

Blue Sky Studios handled the visual effects for Fight Club, and it was their relationship with VIFX - who worked on Titanic - that saw DiCaprio make this unique appearance in Fincher's iconic 1999 movie.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer and Presenter, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund and Eli Roth to Kevin Smith and the Russo Brothers, to Kevin Conroy and Frank Miller, to Bret Hart and Sting, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, and Brian Flynn, to many, many more. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is a long-standing season ticket holder and an FSA Award-winner for his time co-hosting the Fearless in Devotion podcast.