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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* An in-universe example: It's what the director in the movie ''[[Perfect Blue]]'' does to his actors, making the parallels between the main character and the character she plays in the movie even creepier as both start to suspect they are the killer.
* [[Gen Urobuchi]], writer of ''[[Madoka Magica]]'', did not informed [[Emiri Katou]], voice actress of Kyubey, show's mascot, of her character's [[Faux Affably Evil|true]] [[Complete Monster|nature]] and kept character designer [[Ume Aoki]] in the dark about show's dark storyline. He either wanted to make sure the viewer will get fooled, in which case it was this trope, or he really wanted to see [[Heroic BSOD|their faces]] once they'll find out, in which case he was just [[Trolling Creator|trolling]].
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* Slim Pickens, who famously played the B-52 bomber commander and pilot in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', was not told that the movie was a comedy during filming, and played his part straight.
* ''[[Ben
** Which is a brilliant example (and mentioned in) [[Enforced Method Acting]]: Messala comes across as someone trying to rekindle the relationship while Judah is uncomfortable because he'd prefer to forget it happened and doesn't want to be reminded of it.
* Inverted for the ''[[Harry Potter (
* In ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'', actors weren't given instructions until the beginning of each day of filming (most dialogue was improvised). They also weren't told when they would be "attacked" at night, so those moments were genuine surprises.
* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'': [[Mel Brooks]] used a musical version of sorts when he got Frankie Laine, who originally sang the ''[[Rawhide]]'' theme, to sing the theme. Brooks wanted Laine to sound like this was a genuine, dramatic cowboy movie, and so completely "forgot" to tell him about the comedic nature of the film, to the point that Laine didn't realize the truth until he actually ''saw the film at his local cinema''. He consequently produced such an epic cowboy movie song that it's sometimes played alongside other classic cowboy movie themes non-ironically.
* ''[[Scream (
** Craven also hid the final pages of the second movie's script.
* In ''[[
** Prowse was very upset after the premiere, and told Lucas his body language would have been completely different if he'd known the truth.
* In the film ''Smile'', none of the actresses playing the pageant contestants were told who the winner was until the scene was being shot.
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* ''[[Harpers Island]]'': The actors were not told who the murderer was, with the murderer's portrayer himself being kept in the dark until about half-way through. Co-executive producer Karim Zreik, had the job of informing the actors in this death-laden 2009 [[Miniseries]] just when their time was up. The actors gave him the nickname Karim the Assassin.
** Specifically, the character who turned out to be the murderer {{spoiler|(Henry, the character played by star Christopher Gorham)}} wasn't told {{spoiler|he}} was the bad guy until eight episodes into a 13-episode season.
* ''[[
* ''[[Lost]]''.
** Matthew Fox (who plays Jack Shepherd) has stated that he was the only actor on the show who knew how the series would end before the production of the final season.
** In an [http://www.avclub.com/articles/michael-emerson,27850/ interview with Michael Emerson], Emerson confirms that the cast was [[Acting in
** Terry O'Quinn was not informed that he was {{spoiler|no longer playing Locke}} in season 5 because he was meant to act consistently with what was known until the reveal.
* Parodied in the ''[[
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': During the season 4 "reality show" where House was whittling down the candidates as the episodes went on, those who would not make the final cut were not told until the week of filming for that episode began.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' did this with, well, everybody. Specifically to avoid the actor getting influenced by [[Character Development]], since these changes were caused by organic growth. It was supposed to be a gradual change, and it worked. Characters weren't "revealed as suddenly evil" so much as gradually became as such.
* In Season 5 of ''[[
* Similarly, on ''[[Dollhouse]]'', Harry Lennix wasn't told that {{spoiler|he was the Big Bad}} until the middle of the second season.
* ''[[
* ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'': During most of Season 1, the audience was wondering if redneck racist Boyd Crowther had really Found the Lord and become a (fairly nutty) backwoods preacher, or was just scamming everyone. It turns out Walton Goggins, who played Boyd, didn't know either. In this case the writers/producers did this to force him to play it ambigiously.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': Alexander Siddig only found out that his character was actually a Changeling impersonator for several episodes until the episode where it was revealed.
* Another [[Inverted Trope|Inversion]]- On ''[[Doctor Who]]'', Alex Kingston was the ''only'' person aside from [[
* On ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'', the actress Cheryl Hines is usually unaware of what the character Larry David has gotten himself into during an episode.
* [[Twin Peaks]]. [[David Lynch]] had planned out the identity of the killer of Laura Palmer long before the big reveal, but he didn't tell the actor until the time came to actually shoot said reveal.
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