8 Genius Ways Actors Made Sure You Noticed Them In Movies

by Danny Meegan

1. Charlie Sheen Stayed Up For Two Days Straight In Order To Achieve That "Wasted" Look

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Charlie Sheen only has a small role in John Hughes' classic comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but he sure did commit to making his character - a drug-addled teen sat in a police station - as standout a presence as he possibly could.

Nowadays, Sheen probably doesn't have to do anything to make himself look wasted, but back when he was a fresh-faced youngster looking to make his mark on the movie industry, he decided to go to some extreme measures to enhance his performance and create a convincing character, despite only having a few minutes of screen time.

The actor went without sleep for a full 48 hours prior to shooting his role, in order to make the character look properly wasted. During the scene, he mentions drugs several times, and the dark circles beneath his puffy red eyes really do add to the overall effect that this guy is stoned as hell.

Funnily enough, Sheen played this character once again in an episode of The Goldbergs in 2015, where he looked much more wrecked than he did in 1986.

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Know of any other clever things actors have done to make their performances more noticeable? Let us know in the comments section!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!