What qualifies for stealing the show or stealing a scene? I don't think out is the sweeper guy who is sweeping air in the background of Quantum of Solace. Not the stormtrooper who hits his head on the overhead beam in Star Wars. Those are mistakes or quirks that get a laugh rather than scene stealers.
Ron Howard is cited for "stealing the show" from Andy Griffith regularly during the television series. And then Henry Winkler did the same to Ron Howard in Happy Days.
Maybe it is more about the description of the scene stealing rather than the actual occurrence. I found this a very funny description of scene stealing by one of Quora's contributors:
"During the shooting of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham was upstaging Kevin Costner as Robin Hood. His performance was both sinister and comedic, and he was killing it. Meanwhile, Costner was struggling with the accent (he pretty much dropped it except for a couple of scenes) and the fact that he was terribly miscast.
Costner is a cornfed, all-American actor of uneven talent. When he’s on, he’s on - he can knock a performance out of the park. But when he’s not, it’s a train wreck. And Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves was a train wreck right out of the station. The only good things most critics could say was that Alan Rickman and Morgan Freeman’s performances were outstanding - especially Rickman’s. There was even talk of a prequel about the Sheriff.
And that was after a large part of his performance was left on the cutting room floor. That says a lot about just how good he was, that even a trimmed down part could make such an impression.
And Costner (and everyone else on the shoot) knew it. And since Costner was the star, and had much more clout than Rickman, he demanded the Sheriff’s part be cut down to focus more on Robin.
It didn’t help. His performance and the movie were universally panned."
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