They should have included posthumous credits
Anonymity is one of the parts of donating your remains.
Care to share with us not in the know?
They used real human skeletons because it was cheaper to pick them up from medical suppliers.
The actors, including JoBeth Williams (pictured) weren’t informed that they were interacting with genuine human remains until filming wrapped.
The crazy thing is that this isn’t limited to human remains.
Fake cameras often cost more than actual cameras. Fake food is more expensive than real food, which is then wasted.
I’ve wasted SO much money shooting movies with fake cameras.
The staff ate it later.
The staff later had to get their stomachs pumped because the prop food was toxic.
Oh is that where the skeletons came from? 🙃
It always pissed me off how in the Big Bang Theory, you always see them with food, but you never see them eat. I can probably count on one hand the number of times in the whole series someone actually takes a bite off camera.
I hope the crew got to eat all the stuff they never touched on camera, cause that shit always looked good. I got so many cravings watching that…
Actors will try to avoid eating in scenes, because if they end up having to do multiple takes, they have to take a bite of the food at the same point in the scene every take for continuity reasons. This can result in them getting sick of the food quickly.
Wasn’t The Big Bang Theory filmed go front of a live audience?
Using fake firearms is more expensive than using real ones with blanks, using real money is often cheaper than fake Hollywood money
Lord of war used real AKs for that reason
The more interesting tidbit is that this is actually pretty common. The prop house using real skeletons was actually pretty common and not unique to this production. The notable thing about this film was the sheer number of skeletons that they used, so they basically scooped up everything that was out there, and how much the live actors actually interacted with the skeletons. It wasn’t particularly unusual for skeletons to be used as props.
Really, just about any time you saw a skeleton on screen before the 90s or so, it was probably real. A lot of real world props and decorations also used real skeletons, sometimes to the surprise of the people using them. For example, if you rode the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney Land, you saw real human skeletons.
So you’re saying my chance to make it as an actor will outlive me
Hah! And they said my film degree would amount to nothing. Well look at me now! [ drops dead ]
I heard that they just used real ghosts 👻 too 😱 /s
not union ghosts =/
Ghosts of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
But then what will I rattle to be spooky?
Bones!
