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“In Maleficent (2014), The Young Aurora Was Played By Angelina Jolie’s Daughter Vivienne. The 5-Year-Old Got The Part Because She Was The Only Child Who Wasn’t Terrified Of Jolie In Her Maleficent Makeup. Several Other Younger Children Auditioned And Wouldn’t Go Near Her”
“In Kingpin (1996) Bill Murray Plays The Infamous Pro-Bowler Ernie Mccracken. In Addition To Improvising Nearly All Of His Lines, Murray Actually Bowled Three Strikes In A Row On Camera To A Live Audience In One Take. Their Thunderous Applause Was Real”
“Men In Black (1997) – The Language These Aliens Speak Together Is ‘Huttese’, The Language Jabba The Hutt Speaks In The Star Wars Films”
“Michael Palin Came Up With The Idea To Use Coconuts In Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) Because The Film Couldn’t Afford To Use Actual Horses”
“The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001). The Script For Sean Bean’s Council Of Elrond Speech Was Rewritten The Night Before Filming. Bean Taped His Lines To His Knee So He Could Read Them When Needed. Some Of The Characters Frustrated Expressions In The Scene Are Actually The Actor Glancing At His Lines”
“In Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (2002), Lucius Malfoy Slaps Draco’s Hand Onto His Cane. Jason Isaacs Didn’t Know There Were Small Fangs On The Top, So Tom Felton’s Pain Was Genuine”
“Watching Deadpool 2 (2018) And Noticed A Certain Supreme Court Justice’s Headshot In The Squad Interview Scene. None Other Than Ruth Bader Ginsburg In Consideration For A Spot On X-Force”
“When Liam Neeson Was Asked To Play The Antagonist In A Million Ways To Die In The West (2014) (Directed By Seth Mcfarlane) He Accepted Due To A Scene In Family Guy Where Peter Says “Imagine Liam Neeson In A Western! Ha! With That Funny Accent Of His!””
“In Event Horizon, Sam Neill Requested That The Union Jack On An Australian Flag Patch Should Be Replaced With An Aboriginal Flag; The Way He Thought It’d Look In 2047
“In The Matrix (1999) The Way Neo And Morpheus Attack Each Other With The Same Move, Their Clothes And Head/Hair Forms The Ying-Yang Symbol”
“In Knives Out (2019), K Callan, Who Plays Great Nana Wanetta, Is Actually Six Years Younger Than Christopher Plummer, Who Plays Her Son Harlan”
“In Rocky (1976), When He Runs Through The Italian Marketplace, The People’s Amused Expressions As They Look On Is Genuine, As They Had No Idea Why A Man Was Running Back And Forth Being Followed By A Van. The Man Who Throws Him The Orange Was Completely Improvised”
“In Asterix Conquers Rome (1976): Asterix Shows Obelix That They Are In The Fourth Floor By Forming A Roman Iv With His Fingers Instead Of Just Holding Up 4 Fingers”
“In Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007). Dumbledore’s Army: All The Girls Are Wearing Skirts Except Ginny (3rd From Left) Who Is Wearing Pants; Probably A Hand-Me-Down From Her Brothers. (Good Going Costume Department)”
“In 12 Monkeys (1995) Director Terry Gilliam Was Afraid That Brad Pitt Wouldn’t Be Able To Pull Off The Nervous, Rapid Speech. He Sent Him To A Speech Coach But In The End He Just Took Away Pitt’s Cigarettes, And Pitt Played The Part Exactly As Gilliam Wanted”
“In Troy (2004), Brad Pitt And Eric Bana Did Not Use Stunt Doubles For Their Epic Duel. They Made A Gentleman’s Agreement To Pay For Every Accidental Hit. $50 For Each Light Hit, $100 For Each Hard Blow. Pitt Ended Up Paying Bana $750. Bana Didn’t Owe Pitt Anything”
“In Interstellar (2014) The Black Hole Was So Scientifically Accurate It Took Approx 100 Hours To Render Each Frame In The Physics And Vfx Engine. Meaning Every Second You See Took Approx 100 Days To Render The Final Copy”
“In 1989’s Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Anyone With A Lapel Flower Tries To Kill Indy. Indy Even Signals Elsa Is Bad By Giving Her A Flower When They Meet”
“In The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Bruce Did Not Wear A Mask During The Masked Ball Scene. This Is Because He Considers Batman As His True Identity And “Bruce Wayne” As His Disguise In Public. When Selina Asked Him “Who Are You Pretending To Be? ” He Replied “Bruce Wayne, Eccentric Billionaire””
“In Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005), Charlie’s Father Works At The Smilex Toothpaste Factory. Smylex Was The Name Of The Poisonous Gas Created By The Joker In Batman (1989), Also Directed By Tim Burton”
“In Order To Prevent The Twist Of Vader Being Luke’s Father Being Spoiled In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Line Written In The Script And Spoken During Filming Was “Obi-Wan Killed Your Father”, With It Later Dubbed Over. Of The Main Cast, Only Mark Hamill Was Informed Before Release”
“For Her Contribution To The Wizard Oz (1939), Terry The Dog (Toto) Earned $125 Per Week, While The Actors Playing The Munchkins Were Given Just $50 A Week”
“In Rango (2011), Actors Actually Performed Just Like In A Live Movie And This Was Later Referenced By Animators In Animating The Film”
“In The Incredibles (2004), Director Brad Bird Wanted To Give Dash A Realistic Out-Of-Breath Voice In Certain Scenes So He Made Actor Spencer Fox Run Four Laps Around The Pixar Studio Until He Got Tired”
“In Inglorious Bastards (2009), Colonel Landa Checks Each Of The Daughters Pulses To Assess Their Anxiety When He Conducts His Investigation Of The House”
“Whilst Filming Scream (1996) Drew Barrymore Accidently Called 911 For Real Several Times. The Prop Master Had Forgotten To Unplug The Phone Before Filming. Barrymore Would Call, Scream And Hang Up. In The Middle Of One Take The Police Rang Back In Confusion To Ask Why They Kept Calling”
“In ‘Dumb And Dumber’ (1994), Lloyd’s Chipped Tooth Is Real. A Kid Jumped On Jim Carrey’s Head In Detention When He Was A Child And He Had The Cap Removed To Look Dumb”
“In Moana (2016) During The Song “We Know The Way” None Of The People Have Tattoos. It’s Not Until After They Find Their Island Home That We See Characters With Tattoos. This Is Because They Never Had The Resources To Figure Out A Tattoo Technique While They Were Traveling”
“In Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), Actor Mackenzie Crook Had To Wear Two Contact Lenses On Top Of One Another, To Portray His Characters Wooden Eye. He Said: “It’s Uncomfortable…but Not Painful. And It Helps The Character, Because Without It, I’m Just Any Other Pirate.””
