Imagine showing up to work, and on the very first day, you’re asked to do a daring sequence before your female colleague, who also happens to be one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood! Charlie Day has had that experience, and the actor is now recalling how it went. He had to strip for Jennifer Aniston on his first day filming ‘Horrible Bosses’, and even after over a decade, he’s still not over it.
Charlie Day’s ‘awkward’ moment on set: What happened?
Charlie Day recently cracked open this memory during an interview, and it’s one of those awkward stories that sticks with you. Day was promoting his latest project and got asked about past roles. Instead of glossing over it, he dove right in and talked about the very first day on set with Aniston. He told Entertainment Weekly during the interview that the scene in ‘Horrible Bosses’ required him to undress for compromising photos, which meant he barely had time to say hello before he was standing there, exposed, feeling way less attractive than usual.He joked about the moment with Chris Pratt, saying it felt like a “private photograph” snapped by the paparazzi. But really, it was just one of many scenes where Aniston’s character, Dr. Julia Harris, a wildly inappropriate dentist, harasses Day’s character, Dale Arbus, in the 2011 comedy. To make things even more uncomfortable, they had to shoot these blackmail photos before he’d built any rapport with Aniston.“Our very first day of filming, we actually had to [shoot] the photographs that she bribes me with,” Day recalled. “That was like, ‘Hi, how are you. Alright, pardon me, I’m going to take all of my clothes off,’ ” he continued.Imagine meeting someone, then immediately having to take your clothes off for a comedy bit. That’s not exactly the best icebreaker.Day admitted, “I never felt pastier and doughier and just less attractive,” while Pratt cracked up beside him. The timing couldn’t have been worse, but the film played it all for laughs. Dale, along with his buddies Nick (Jason Bateman) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis), spends the movie plotting to get rid of their nightmare bosses: Aniston, Kevin Spacey, and Colin Farrell.
Who is Charlie Day?
For the unversed, Charlie Day is the one behind Charlie Kelly on ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’, with the manic energy, the weird voice, the cult following. He’s been all over comedy movies, from ‘Horrible Bosses’ to animated hits, and now, he’s back as Luigi in ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’, with Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Jack Black.
