Posted 33 minutes agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret Down18 Actors Whose Real Lives And Personal Requests Actually Influenced Their CharactersFrom wardrobe changes to being killed off, actors can have a lot of impact on what happens to their characters.by Jenna GuillaumeBuzzFeed ContributorFacebookPinterestLink Sometimes, actors have to go completely outside their lived experience to transform into their characters, but other times, their lived experience is what gets into the character. Here are some actors whose mannerisms and requests influenced their characters and the movies and TV shows they were in... 1. Florence Pugh as Yelena in Black Widow Mike Coppola / Getty Images, Marvel A running gag in Black Widow is Yelena mocking Natasha's "fighting pose", and the joke was directly inspired by Florence Pugh making fun of Scarlett Johansson on set. 2. Terry Crews as Terry on Brooklyn 99 Gary Gershoff / Getty Images, NBC Brooklyn 99's Terry was in fact created for Terry Crews to play, and lots of aspects of the real Terry's personality - like his love of yogurt and speaking in the third person - were incorporated into the character.