16 Wholesome Details That Are Hiding In Plain Sight In TV Shows And Movies, Just Waiting To Be Discovered And Appreciated
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1.Ted Lasso cast member Cristo Fernández revealed in a Reddit Ask Me Anything interview that he made up an elaborate backstory for his character, the exuberant footballer Dani Rojas. In the bio Fernández wrote, Rojas is the youngest of 12 siblings, which is "why he pushes himself to give his best and help his family back home," and he has 43 cousins.
While everyone in the Rojas family works on the family farm, they also own a "humble taco truck." Regrettably, "Dani sucks at cooking," but everyone else makes "amazing food." And, of course, Dani thinks of himself as a "free spirit" and a "very positive man," personal qualities that are obvious to anyone who's seen him run across the pitch yelling "Fútbol is life!"
2.In the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode "The Puzzle Master," Amy Santiago gets the chance to work with her celebrity crush, the crossword puzzle writer Melvin Stermley, who is, to Jake Peralta's surprise/consternation, a hunk. Melvin is actually played by David Fumero, the real-life husband of Melissa Fumero, who plays Amy.
3.By the time Inside Out happens, Colette from Ratatouille has become a successful enough chef to appear on the front cover of a magazine in Riley's living room.
There she is, in all her haute cuisine-making glory.
4.In the title card for the 2009 adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, the library book's cover proudly notes that it's "Now a Major Motion Picture."
Here it is up close.
5.In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part One, Katniss meets the cameraman Pollux, who is an Avox, or a person who had their tongue cut out by the Capitol. Pollux communicates through sign language, and after he greets Katniss, he signs to his brother Castor that he thinks she is beautiful.
Elden Henson, who played Pollux, told Zimbio, "One of the PAs on our set majored in sign language, so I immediately pulled him aside and was talking a lot with him and with Francis [Lawrence, the director], and we had a conversation about finding little moments in the movie that show how close Wes [Chatham, who played Castor] and I were. There's that scene where I talk about how beautiful Katniss is, and on that day — and this is a testament to how great Francis is — I said, 'You know, there might be an opportunity for Wes and I, who were just sort of in the background of that scene, to do something.'" Lawrence and screenwriter Peter Craig came up with the moment, while the on-set PA helped Henson learn how to sign it.
Here's the full scene:
6.Throughout Season 2 of Derry Girls, the titular group of friends wear rainbow pins in support of Clare, who came out as a lesbian in the Season 1 finale. This is extra sweet, considering how strict their Catholic high school seems to be about its uniform policy.
7.In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Toph bends a piece of meteorite given to her by Sokka into a few different shapes, the last of which is Nickelodeon's famous "splat" logo.
8.The van Coraline's family uses to move into the Pink Palace is marked with graffiti reading "STOP MO RULZ," an ode to the painstaking stop-motion animation style that makes films like Coraline possible.
9.During the last scene of the first season of Alex Rider, Alex's best friend, Tom, wears a shirt that reads, "The book was better." Either Tom can see through the fourth wall, or the production wanted to send a sweet message to fans of the original books (it's probably that).
10.In Tick, Tick...Boom!, Stephen Sondheim is played by Bradley Whitford, but the real composer makes a voice-only cameo when he leaves an encouraging voicemail for Broadway up-and-comer Jonathon Larson.
Director Lin-Manuel Miranda told Entertainment Weekly that Sondheim asked to rewrite the voicemail because he felt it was "a little trite." Whitford didn't have time to re-record the new lines, so Sondheim stepped in for him. Said Miranda, "It makes me weep to even think about. Because he was such a mentor to Jon and generations of songwriters. But yes, he rewrote that message and recorded it himself and just sent it to me."
11.In Iron Man 3, the virtual assistant JARVIS has his very own Christmas stocking hanging above the fireplace in Tony's home.
12.In the background of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, you can spot an advertisement for a movie that doesn't exist, at least not in this universe: From Dusk Till Shaun, a fictional sequel to Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead.
If you see the wonderful 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse' do look out for this rather tantalizing parallel-universe billboard in Times Square... #SpiderVerse #ShaunVerse
One of the three directors of the film, Rodney Rothman, emailed Wright to ask him if he wanted to contribute to the film's vision of an "alternate New York City with same-but-different things." Rothman wrote, "I want to do subway and bus ads for movies that don't exist in our world but theoretically could. And ideally I want to get the movie titles from the actual filmmakers. ... Basically a movie made...by an alternate universe version of you."
Here is my pitch to @edgarwright to get the Shaun of the Dead sequel in the alternate universe. #SpiderVerse #QuarantineWatchParty