Elf Producers Wanted to Cut One of the Funniest (And Weirdest) Lines From the Movie

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• Actor Mark Acheson, who played the gruff mailroom worker, was on set for 22 hours and his ad-libbed lines nearly got him cut from the film entirely, until director Jon Favreau fought to keep him in.
• Acheson revealed that one of his improvised lines - where he joked his character was '26 years old with nothing to show for it' - almost didn't make it, with producers thinking no one would believe it, but Favreau insisted 'that's the joke' since Acheson was actually 46 when he delivered the line.