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Actors Extravagant on Set Requests List from July 17, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have a do you yeah, oh, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: A proper Okay, it's Radio from Hell with another list
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  Speaker 1: because people love a good list ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: I have a list of extravagant requests from actors on
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  Speaker 2: film sets.
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  Speaker 3: Extravagant Okay, and the.
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  Speaker 2: First one, I mean, we've mentioned it on the show
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  Speaker 2: many times, and when I say the name Marlon Brando,
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  Speaker 2: their example of his request is having an ice bucket
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  Speaker 2: hat on the island of Doctor Moreau.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, was he hot?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you wanted to keep his head cool.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that the doctor is just crazy enough
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  Speaker 2: that he was on his head.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see how silly I can make myself look.
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  Speaker 2: Eddie Murphy has the unusual habit of wearing new underwear
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  Speaker 2: and socks every day during filming. The actor prefers to
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  Speaker 2: wear brand new underwear, even with the tag still on,
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  Speaker 2: discarding it after one use rather than washing and reusing it.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that about several celebrities.
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  Speaker 2: Why socks and underwear brand new and then just throw
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  Speaker 2: it away?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's the strangest thing. What a waste?
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe it goes to Goodwill or something.
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  Speaker 2: George Clooney during the film.
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  Speaker 1: Goodwill, Your underwear. Yeah, you don't give underwear to Maybe that's.
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  Speaker 3: Where I get all my underwear. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: George Clooney. During the filming of Gravity, George Clooney requested
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  Speaker 2: a custom built beach hut to be installed next to
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  Speaker 2: his trailer.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, for hell's sake, he was hardly in that movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He also asked for a private landscaped garden, a
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  Speaker 2: hot tub, and a basketball court.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times they ask for this stuff just
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  Speaker 1: to see if you'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I get that vibe from Clooney, Like I wonder
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  Speaker 2: if I ask for a bask Jennifer Lopez demand that
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  Speaker 2: she'd be allowed to change the lighting in the room
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  Speaker 2: if she doesn't like it, that the sweets she stays
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  Speaker 2: in be all white, and that her sheets be at
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  Speaker 2: least a two hundred and fifty thread count and the
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  Speaker 2: toilets be brand new.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, yeah, she seems like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Kim Basinger, has she been in anything in a while?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, In her contract, she insists that she have mineral
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  Speaker 2: water available for her daily hygiene. Dozens of cases of expensive,
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  Speaker 2: heavy on water need to be provided for her to
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  Speaker 2: wash her hair and her body.
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  Speaker 3: And she Also, she also stipulates that she does not
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  Speaker 3: have to take any phone calls from Alec Baldwin Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Although the film was never made, the contract that Uma
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  Speaker 2: Thurman demanded for the film Eloise in Paris required veto
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  Speaker 2: power over the director, screenwriter, and cast, a luxury dressing room,
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  Speaker 2: three mobile phones, and a fifty percent discount on all
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  Speaker 2: the dressings and wigs she had to wear during filming.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had veto power.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean a fifty percent discount like that?
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  Speaker 3: She could? Why them? And why wouldn't she just keep them?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Russell Crowe demands that black curtains be put in his
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  Speaker 2: room so no one can see him and he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have to see passers bond.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's just for the general public's good too, They
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  Speaker 3: because nobody wants to We don't. We don't want to
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  Speaker 3: see that.
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer Lawrence felt very pressured during the filming of Mother
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  Speaker 2: That Really Crazy Movie, so she asked for a safe
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  Speaker 2: place where she could relax. She herself described this place
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  Speaker 2: as the Kardashian Tent, where she would go during breaks
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  Speaker 2: to watch episodes of the reality TV show to relax.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we got that clooney shack that we could put
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  Speaker 1: next year. You could relax there.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Depp, during the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean,
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  Speaker 2: demanded the hiring of a sound engineer to recite Jack
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  Speaker 2: Sparrow's dialogue to him through a small earpiece so he
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to memorize his lines.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he branded.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is a nice one. And I know you've
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  Speaker 2: heard this one before about Robin Williamses. Before accepting any role,
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  Speaker 2: the actor demanded that at least ten homeless.
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  Speaker 1: People be hired for the shoot.
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  Speaker 2: He started doing that.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't heard that before. I've not heard that.
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  Speaker 2: So he played a homeless guy in Fisher King movie
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  Speaker 2: and he got to know a lot of homeless people
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  Speaker 2: in New York during the filming that, and he insists
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  Speaker 2: they hire homeless people on his shoes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's nice.
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  Speaker 1: I've not heard that.
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  Speaker 2: Jack Nicholson one of the biggest Los Angeles Lakers fans.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that he does this so much anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But when he was filming things, he had in his
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  Speaker 2: contract that he could always attend every game, every home game.
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  Speaker 2: Filming was never to interfere with that. Also, forbade any
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  Speaker 2: member of the crew from wearing clothing with the logo
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  Speaker 2: of their main rival, the Boston Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't allowed to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't think he leaves the house anymore. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, can this be true? David Hasselhoff, it's his
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  Speaker 2: birthday today? Yeah, he requested a all it there always
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  Speaker 2: be a life sized cardboard cutout of himself in his
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  Speaker 2: dressing room.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder why that would be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the last one. Ben Affleck halted filming of
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  Speaker 2: the movie Gone Girl for four days because director David
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  Speaker 2: Fincher wanted him to wear a Yankees cap as a
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  Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox fan.
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  Speaker 1: Affleck flatly refused.
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  Speaker 2: After separate days of discussions, they reached an agreement that
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  Speaker 2: his character could wear a New York Mets cap.
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  Speaker 1: That was, okay, that's just stupid.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently, dumb, dumb, dumb.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I just think we need to make more outrageous
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  Speaker 2: for some Beto power.
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  Speaker 1: I liked that be nice.
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  Speaker 3: Carry has always wanted to tire Sling in that studio.
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  Speaker 1: M hm, you know, just to see if they'll do it.
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