You already know Nic Cage is on here …
Lavish demands and riders from celebrities are nothing new in Hollywood — so much so that they are sometimes included in their contracts. Whether they reveal their preferences in an interview or tabloids pick it up for the public’s amusement, we are always learning something new (good or bad) about our favorite celebs…
From live animals on set to “no-death” clauses, it’s time to take a look at some of the strangest celebrity contract demands:
1.Keanu Reeves:
2.Reese Witherspoon:
3.Lauren Graham:
4.Danny Trejo:
5.Garry Marshall and Hector Elizondo:
6.Queen Latifah:
7.Nicolas Cage:
8.William Frawley:
9.Samuel L. Jackson:
10.Daniel Day-Lewis:
11.Bea Arthur:
12.Van Halen:
However, former frontman David Lee Roth set the record straight in his 1997 autobiography,Crazy From the Heat,writing,
" So just as a trivial test , in the technical facial expression of the passenger , it would say , ' Article 148 : There will be 15 amperage voltage sockets at 20 - foot spaces , evenly , furnish 19 amperes … ' This kind of thing . And article numeral 126 , in the middle of nowhere , was , ' There will be no brown M&M ’s in the backstage area , upon bother of forfeit of the show , with full recompense . '
So , when I would walk backstage , if I saw a chocolate-brown M&M in that bowl … well , line - check the intact production . Guaranteed you ’re going to arrive at a technical error . They did n’t read the declaration . Guaranteed you ’d run into a trouble . Sometimes it would imperil to just put down the whole show . Something like , literally , life - threatening . "
