The scene when John Malkovich is hit in the head by a can thrown by a passenger in a passing car was possibly unscripted. Apparently an extra brought beer on set, got drunk, and decided to throw one of his beer cans at John Malkovich. The director liked the scene so much that he left it in the film. The extra got his SAG card, a pay raise since he now had a line in the movie. See the director's commentary on the DVD.[1] However, this recollection is possibly apocryphal since this exact scene-ending appears in a very early Kaufman script for Being John Malkovich (widely available on the web) which differs greatly from the final shooting script, especially in the second half of the story.