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Question: When actors smoke in movies....?

(Posted by: I DONT PASS on 2010-03-10 17:00:05)

Are they really smoking a real cig?

Posted by: Kanada on 2010-03-10, 17:05:06

99% of the time, yes. But in many movies today (prime example = Xmen or the Wolverine movies) where a character is smoking (cigar in the previous examples) it isn't lit. As they see it now as a bad example for the younger kids. Its always the "bad asses " in movies that are smokers. Robert DeNiro in a lot of his roles, Kurt Russel in 99% of his, etc etc.

Posted by: Keeg93 on 2010-03-10, 17:00:53

Yep well, probably. it's rather hard to smoke something fake and add in the smoke via computer.

Posted by: Osiris76 on 2010-03-10, 17:01:18

Yes. They get it for free so they actually smoke more than what you see on the screen.

Posted by: ---- on 2010-03-10, 17:01:29

Probably not, since they make mistakes etc all the time, they have to redo that bit...they're throat would be killing, and they wouldn't want to harm their lungs.

Posted by: brandon l on 2010-03-10, 17:01:36

Sometimes, there are real looking fake cigs out there, my wife was in drama and got to use them and they look convincing.

Posted by: joe on 2010-03-10, 17:04:49

Yes, a lot of times they are. Many are switching to electronic cigarettes though. We wrote a story on our site about BluCigs and celebs.

Posted by: level 42 on 2010-03-10, 17:10:40

I would tend to agree with kanada the majority do smoke actual cigarettes did you know that the cigarette smoking man in the x files didnt smoke but he used herbal cigarettes for his scenes

Posted by: Rachel on 2010-03-10, 17:24:20

They used to all the time i dont know about anywhere else but my friend went on a casting in london and because of the smoking ban in the scenes where people were smoking they had to use those herbal ones, she said they stink.