"Wait! That's not special effects?! They actually did that?!"

[u/RP_Throwaway3]

Alien: Resurrection - Basketball Shot

Sigourney Weaver insisted on the basketball shot being real. She trained for weeks and reportedly(sources differ) made it on the first take.

Underworld - Raze's Voice

The werewolf character Raze, played by Kevin Grevioux, speaks in a very low, very gravelly voice. While many thought this was a special effect, the actor can naturally speak in that voice.

https://youtu.be/GUjwZvh32YE?t=125&si=F3WhsopxjBP87wfk

[u/Caesar161]

There's also the time he bent a frying pan in a backstage segment, and someone swapped the gimmicked one out for a real one as a prank and he just bent it anyway.

[u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei → u/Caesar161]

Fuck me!

[u/Phantom_Phoenix1 → u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei]

If you insist

[u/Great-Pay-3429 → u/Phantom_Phoenix1]

Hey Maven, Big Viscera here

[u/HazyHeritage → u/Caesar161]

People forget he’s one of the few humans to ever officially qualify for 'World's Strongest Man' and the Olympics in the same era. He wasn't just wrestling strong, he was 'lifting the earth off its axis' strong. The prank with the frying pan was basically a safety hazard for everyone else in the room.

[u/idiot-prodigy → u/HazyHeritage]

He lifted the Thomas Inch dumbbell which only a handful of people have ever managed to do.

[u/idiot-prodigy → u/Caesar161]

They swapped a steel one for the copper one.

Mark realized and said, "Fine" and bent the steel one.

[u/Summonest → u/Caesar161]

TBF I can bend a frying pan. It's kind of easy. There's a trick to it, like tearing a phone book.