Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe and More Actors Who Were Actually Drunk or High on Set!

Updated: Apr 23, 2017 9:55 pm

By Anna Quintana

These actors deserve an award!

Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe and Friends star Mathew Perry are just some of the actors that have admitted to being drunk or high while on set.

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Whether to help get into character or due to years-long addiction, these celebs were not sober while filming their best-known work.

For a look at actors who came to work drunk or high, check out the gallery below!

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Matthew Perry

The Friends star revealed that he has no memory of a chunk of his time on the show due to his drug and alcohol use.

"I think the answer is I don't remember three years of it," he told BBC Radio 2 when asked what his favorite episode was. "So none of those… somewhere between season three and six."

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Daniel Radcliffe

While the Harry Potter star has never drank while on set, the actor did reveal he would show up to work still drunk from the night before.

"I can honestly say I never drank at work on Harry Potter," he told Heat magazine. "I went into work still drunk, but I never drank at work. I can point to many scenes where I'm just gone. Dead behind the eyes."

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Nicolas Cage

While filming Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , he revealed he was prescribed cocaine for a sinus infection.

“They still use cocaine to clear your sinuses and it’s a true story,” he said.

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Seth Rogen

The Pineapple Express actor has always been very vocal about his marijuana consumption, but director Kevin Smith revealed that Seth was a "functioning stoner" while filming his movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno!

"That dude gave me the greatest gift I've had in the last five years," Kevin told MTV. "The moment I start smoking, I start working. … That way, no one could ever take it away from you."

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Dan Akyroyd

The SNL alum was not alone when it came to getting high on the set of The Blues Brothers.

"Everyone did it, including me. Never to excess, and not to ever where I wanted to buy it or have it," he told Vanity Fair in 2012.

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Carrie Fisher

While shooting The Empire Strikes Back, Princess Leia herself admits to being high on set.

“Actually, no, I didn’t go through a difficult time! I said I did blow a couple of times," Carrie told The Daily Beast of her time filming the sequel. "That’s not a difficult time!”

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Brad Pitt and Edward Norton

In the Fight Club scene where Brad and Edward are drunkenly hitting golf balls, the actors were actually drunk during a break but director David Fincher decided to include in the final film.

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Jack Nicholson

The Easy Rider actor told Playboy magazine, "Each time I did a take or angle, it involved smoking almost an entire joint. We were smoking regular dope, pretty good Mexican grass."

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The Beatles

Paul McCartney has been very candid about the Fab Four being “so stoned on pot" while filming Help!

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Ethan Embry

The '90s star shared this anecdote of his time filming Can't Hardly Wait:

"The day we did the kissing scene at the end of the movie with Jennifer Love Hewitt, she got me this really big basket of breath mints, and a stuffed teddy bear, because she — pretty much everybody knew — I passed most of my time smoking massive bong rips in my trailer," Ethan wrote in a Reddit AMA. "She didn't want to make out with a skunk-scented chimney. I used the breath mints. They were rather nice cottonmouth alleviators."

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Martin Sheen

The drunken Saigon hotel scene in Apocalypse Now is so believable because the veteran actor was actually drunk!