2. Actual Wax, Steve Carell – 40-Year-Old Virgin
If you’re watching The 40-Year-Old Virgin and wonder how they got the chest waxing scene to look so real, you should know the truth. It was real. The blood, the pain, the screams and the laughter were all authentic. As Steve Carell says, “That was 100% real. We set up 5 cameras because we knew it would be one take.
There would be no way in going back and doing it again. So we set up a camera on the guys, one over me, one specifically on my chest, one on the waxer… and it was not scripted. We just had an idea for where it would go. We hired a woman who was an actress/waxer-er [what co-star Paul Ruddcalls, a waxtress].” While it was hysterical to see, we bet Carell immediately regretted his decision. That looks painful.
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