Fake Stimulators Used By Actors During Filming (13 pics)

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Fake cocaine - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Instead of the real deal, the actors were given a vitamin D powder to snort, which is harmless to the body when ingested in small doses. If you’ve seen the movie, you know it’s not exactly “light” cocaine use. Jonah Hill said: “I did so much fake cocaine in Wolf of Wall Street I got bronchitis for three weeks and had to be hospitalized.”

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Fake marijuana - Pineapple Express (2008)

We all know Seth Rogen loves pot but sometimes it’s hard to actually, you know, get anything done if you’re high the whole day. And while there was real weed around the set, the majority of on-screen smoking was done with THC-less bud form a company called International Oddities.

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Fake heroin - Trainspotting (1996)

Prop master Gordon Fitzgerald said: “"[We] injected a colored liquid into a prosthetic arm," Fitzgerald told The Daily Beast. "You can draw the plunger up and down and it looks as if the blood is mixing with the liquid."

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Fake heroin - American Gangster (2007)

American Gangster's prop wizard Eric Cheripka told Refinery 29 that H is the most difficult drug to accurately recreate on screen, though he favors a substance called Mannitol. While it's used to treat kidney conditions, reduce brain swelling and treat eye pressure in the medical profession, it's also used to cut real heroin on the streets, which is why it looks so convincing.

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Fake crack - Half Nelson (2006)

The production used an off-white coffee mug broke up into about a million little pieces, then dyed in coffee. Then, they set a small ball of tobacco behind it, so that when lit, a very small amount of smoke would come out. Movie magic.

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Nuke - Robocop 2 (1990)

What we're really looking at is a saline solution used by contact lens wearers mixed with a red dye.

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HFS - 21 Jump Street (2012)

Just plain communion-style dissolving wafers, colored yellow as opposed to the traditional white.

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Fake marijuana - The Breakfast Club (1985)

I feel like someone should have stepped in and told Emilio Estevez that weed and crack are nothing alike. But they were smoking oregano joints so maybe that’s what it does?

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Fake cocaine - The Wrestler (2008)

Prop master Jeff Butcher told Upvoted that while powdered milk and baking soda have been used in the past, he favors a product called Inositol, a vitamin-like substance that can be found naturally in various plants and animals or created from scratch in a lab. And it does give the consumer a bit of a jolt, which really took Mickey Rourke by surprise the first time.

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Fake cocaine - Scarface (1983)

Pacino is actually ingesting is powdered baby laxative, according to real-life Cuban immigrant Steven Bauer, who played Manny Ribera in the movie. And according to Pacino, his nose has never been the same.

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Real marijuana - American Beauty (1999)

Director Sam Mendes said, "There's a scene in American Beauty where he and another character are getting stoned outside a real estate convention and there may or may not have been real pot available on that particular movie, I couldn't possibly comment.” He revealed that at one point Spacey even looks at the camera after descending into giggles, expecting Mendes to yell cut, which he didn't. "I felt it was absolutely magic and he kept going and that was absolutely the movie."