19 Truly Fascinating Movie Facts That You Probably Don't Know
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I love me some movie trivia.
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Here are some behind-the-scenes facts about some of the most memorable moments in movie history:
1.Ke Huy Quan, who has an impressive martial arts background, did most of his own stunts for the wild fanny pack fight scene in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
2.In The Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster said that Anthony Hopkins improvised Hannibal Lecter's mocking of Clarice's accent — which was Foster's own accent.
In a DVD featurette, she said: "There’s a moment in the movie where Hannibal says, 'You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes?...' I can’t think of anything more hurtful than somebody standing there, saying, 'I really feel sorry for you. You’re really pathetic.' He started imitating my accent. He would say, 'Your problem, Clarice, is you need to get a little more fuhn out of life.' And suddenly, I just — it upset me so much! It, like, struck a really bad chord in me. Anthony is the nicest man I’ve worked with in a long time, and the difference between that, of course, and the fury and passion of Hannibal Lecter is very interesting."
3.The bees coming out of Candyman’s mouth and chest in Candyman are real, and apparently, Tony Todd was paid $1,000 for each sting he received.
4.In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg enlisted real doctors from USC Medical Center to play the doctors who try to save E.T., because Spielberg "felt that actors talking about technical medical matters didn’t seem natural."
5.According to Allison Williams, the scene in Get Out where her character Rose has her Froot Loops and milk separately was added last minute while they were already on set filming.
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"I can’t remember who came up with the idea to split them up, but Jordan and I brainstormed about what would be interesting, and it was decided to make the milk separate from the Froot Loops," she elaborated. "I know my contribution were the tiny sips and tiny little bites."
6.The look of pain on Billy's face in Scream is very, very real. It's explained in the DVD commentary that Skeet Ulrich had open-heart surgery when he was a kid and that, while filming the scene when Sidney attacks Billy with an umbrella, the umbrella missed the protective vest Ulrich was wearing and hit him right in the old surgery wound.
7.There's a deleted scene from Love Actually that shows that Sam was originally written to be a "brilliant gymnast" in the film. I think we can all be honest here about how weird of a subplot that would have been.
In the original script, Sam was a "brilliant gymnast," and his skills were put on full display as he races through the airport to catch Joanna before her flight. According to director Richard Curtis, "You casually saw him when he was very sad doing double twists and turns and not getting any joy out of it at all. So, when it came to the airport…he brought his gymnastic prowess into play, and this is a very rough edit of how he would have been the Nadia Comăneci [or] Olga Korbut of the movie."
8.In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Eric Idle can be seen biting his scythe to stop himself from laughing when John Cleese chose to pause for an amazingly long time when answering Sir Bedivere's question.
When asked "Why do witches burn?" Cleese waits more than 10 seconds to reply, "'Cause they're made of wood?" Idle revealed on the DVD commentary, "John took an enormously long time on that take...so I bit the [scythe] to prevent myself from giggling."
9.In Return of the Jedi, Nien Nunb's "alien language" is actually Kikuyu, which is spoken in parts of Kenya.
10.Alan Tudyk improvised the slap K-2SO gives Cassian Andor in Rogue One, as well as the line that follows: "And there’s a fresh one if you mouth off again." You can see Diego Luna, who plays Andor, covering his face to hide his laughter.
11.In Titanic, Jack accidentally telling Rose to lie on the “bed” instead of the “couch” before he draws apparently wasn’t in the script. Leonardo DiCaprio allegedly said it by mistake, and director James Cameron decided to keep it in.
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