My Great Grandpa . <| sep |> Anything about Marlon Brando really . Apart from the popular ones During filming of Mutiny on the Bounty , Brando split 52 pairs of trousers as a result of his binge eating . While filming a bondage scene in The Nightcomers , Marlon tied Stephanie Beacham to the bed and then went and had lunch . Brando is legendary for his eating habits , even before he ballooned up to 350 pounds prior to his death . Brando ' s diet circa 1950 consisted mainly of junk food , usually takeout Chinese or peanut butter , which he consumed by the jarful . By the mid ' 50 s , he was renowned for eating boxes of Mallomars and cinnamon buns , washing them down with a quart of milk . He always went on crash diets before his films would shoot . Two years before Brando declined his Oscar for Best Actor in The Godfather , he ' d applied to the Academy to replace the one he ' d won for On the Waterfront , which had been stolen . Prior to its theft , Brando had been using the Oscar as a doorstop . He was an avid user of the Internet in his final years , often going into chat rooms to start arguments . When he was filming Last Tango in Paris , Brando kept forgetting his lines even when they were put right in front of him . When the director asked what he could do to make Brando , you know , do his fucking job , the actor thought for a moment and then asked if the director would attach the lines to the naked ass of the actress he was starring alongside . The director refused