WIG BLOOPERS

Silver screen toupée fuck-ups with hairpiece-specific film blunder boffin

⬜ EVERYONE REMEMBERS SAMUEL L JACKSON’s iconic burger chomping speech in Pulp Fiction, in which he quotes the Bible passage Ezekiel 25:17 before shooting a man in the face. But what’s less well known is that Jackson royally ballsed up the first take of this famous monologue... because he had his wig on backwards! Director QUENTIN TARANTINO recalls: “We were all silently pissing ourselves, because Samuel had unwittingly put his Jheri curl hairpiece on the wrong way round, so it covered his entire face! He didn’t twig and just carried on saying the lines, even though the words were coming out all muffled. I couldn’t resist letting the daft twat finish the whole five-minute monologue before I called ‘cut’. The look on poor sod’s face when we told him what had happened was priceless!”

⬜ THE MOST poignant scene in the 2013 film Behind involves The Candelabra MICHAEL DOUGLAS – playing piano icon Liberace his – removing glamourous bouffant hairpiece to reveal a wizened, balding pate beneath. However, eagle-eyed viewers will have spotted an embarrassing blooper in this scene... The movie is set in 1977, and yet Douglas quite clearly has an iPod Nano resting on top of his bald head – a contraption that was not even invented until 2005! To make matters worse, if you zoom in, you can see that the iPod is playing the song Galway Girl by Ed Sheeran, which was not even recorded until 2017, four years after the film came out! #FacePalmOrWot?

⬜ BACK to Pulp Fiction, where in one of the most memorable scenes, the Gimp, played by STEPHEN HIBBERT, is taken out of a box in order to guard Butch Coolidge, played by BRUCE WILLIS whilst Zed, played by PETER GREENE sexually assaults Marcellus Wallace, played by VING RHAMES . The scene was in the can first take, but only when the cameras stopped rolling and Hibbert removed his gimp mask did the crew realise that just like Jules Winnfield, played by SAMUEL L JACKSON, Hibbert had his wig on back to front. The director, played by QUENTIN TARANTINO sacked the key hair stylist played by AUDREE FUTTERMAN and ordered that the scene be re-shot, and Rhames was forced to go through the ordeal again.

More mortifying celluloid errors based predominantly Love ya, Mark xx around hairpieces next time, you wig-bonkers lot!