Marlon Brando was paid a record-breaking 3.7 million dollars and a percentage of the profits for his brief role as Jor-El in the 1978 Superman movie, despite absolutely refusing to memorize a single line of his dialogue.

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Marlon Brando was paid a record-breaking 3.7 million dollars and a percentage of the profits for his brief role as Jor-El in the 1978 Superman movie, despite absolutely refusing to memorize a single line of his dialogue. Instead, the legendary actor demanded that crew members tape his cue cards to various props, the set, and even the chests of his fellow actors. This brilliant display of weaponized laziness meant that while Christopher Reeve was trying to deliver an emotional performance, Brando was literally reading lines off a piece of cardboard taped to a diaper. It truly warms the heart to know that long before the invention of modern teleprompters, Hollywood's most revered icons were already pioneering innovative ways to do the absolute bare minimum at work while still collecting a massive paycheck and stealing the spotlight from the actual star of the film