Unexpected Bloopers During Death Scenes

Why do so many movies and shows have an outtakes or blooper reel? It's because bloopers are the result of contents under pressure breaking free. It's a lot of pressure for actors to film a movie or television show—they've got a huge crew and a multi-million-dollar production riding on their backs. 

For some, that's just too much to take and when it comes time to deliver their lines, they crack up laughing. And some scenes are even harder to shoot because they have to be serious, important, sad, and meaningful—like a death scene for example. Talk about too much pressure with nowhere to go. Here are some actors who couldn't get through an ultra-serious death scene with their serious face intact. Obviously, as is the nature of death scenes, spoilers ahead.

Some things just plain tickle and you'd have to be an unfeeling monster not to react with a torrent of giggles. For example: feathers, fingers, and apparently, a prop knife repeatedly stabbing you in the stomach. On the set of the 2007 Rob Zombie-directed remake of Halloween, the fearsome Michael Myers keeps jamming a knife into actor Ken Foree. Rather than scream and flail and plead for his life, Foree giggles like he's watching a blooper reel.

The good guys aren't supposed to die in comic book movies—that's what the bad guys are supposed to. That's part of the reason why The Avengers was such a game-changer: consummate civilian hero and S.H.I.E.L.D. director Phil Coulson bites it hard at the hand of Loki in the first Marvel team-up flick. His S.H.I.E.L.D. associate Maria Hill just can't deal with that new reality, or least actress Cobie Smulders can't. In this blooper, her on-the-job training from the sitcom How I Met Your Mother serves her well as she hams it up, soap opera style, after the big death.

Making movies is tough work—a shooting day can regularly last more than 14 hours as crews prepare sets, lighting, props, and practical effects rigs. That means a lot of sitting around and waiting for the actors—which can be quite tedious and boring. To whit: Michael Rooker was filming a scene as Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and it must have been a long day because he fell asleep while lying there—and he's supposed to be dead. His snoring drowns out costar Chris Pratt's emotional eulogy.

Death is central to Seth Rogen and James Franco's controversial 2014 comedy The Interview—the duo play an American talk show producer and host, respectively, sent to North Korea on a mission to kill the nation's leader, Kim Jong Un. There's going to be some violence along the way, such as a hand-to-hand fight to the death in a control room between Rogen's character and a North Korean man. They just can't quite get around to fully dispatching one another without descending into hysterics.