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33 Behind-the-Scenes Trivia Tidbits That Shed New Light on Your Favorite TV and Movies

September 30, 2024

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LOVE & BASKETBALL The Crenshaw High School scenes were shot with actual kids from the school. Monica's te ammates were Crenshaw High's basketball team, and the crowd was local. The USC college ball players were all real players, too, and some of them even played with Prince-Bythewood. BEHIND THE SCENES — Source

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Mickey Mouse

Disney behind the scenes walt Disney never drew Mickey Mouse. When asked to do it at a party, he just handed the paper to Ub Iwerks, who actually drew Mickey. It lead to a fallout that almost broke Disney. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Rest is History

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Wesley Snipes played a vampire hunter, in Blade: Trinity. Behind the scenes, he played a violent stoner. Snipes spent the majority of filming locked u

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Deckard’s gun in Blade Runner was one of the most expensive props ever sold

Blade Runner Deckard has a million-dollar gun. Deckard's gun is one of the million iconic things in that film. Which might explain why it is one of the most expensive movie weapon props ever, sold at a little over a quarter of a million. — Source: Comet TV

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Raul Julia

Raul Julia was so sick, the shooting schedule had to be changed. Julia was positively emaciated due to his stomach cancer, and his scenes had to be postponed until he gained some weight. So action scenes were shot first - with no time to properly prepare or rehearse. — Source: Looper

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BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS GRAHAM CHAPMAN QUIT DRINKING FOR THE MOVIE. LIFE OF BRIAN Before the movie started shooting, Chapman's drinking problem was such an issue that John Cleese proposed to take oveR the role of Brian. Chapman decided to get his act together and quit drinking in order to play the — The Irish Times

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CRACKED.COM DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON'S STUNT DOUBLE... TANOAI REED. NOTABLE MOVIES: Has been Johnson's double in every movie since Scorpion King in 2002. Non-Johnson movies include Smokin' Aces, Gamer, StarTrek Into Darkness. SCARIEST INJURY CHE'S HAD A LOT): I tore my arm open in F7 when it went through a big piece of glass while I was doing a fight with Jason Statham's stunt double. I had to have emergency surgery for that one because there was shrapnel in my arm...I asked what the worst-case scenario was, and he said, 'I have to reattach all the blood vessels, tendons, ligaments. Worst-case scenario — Source

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140 141 IC AL The same high school set was used on Saved By The Bell, iCarly, and That's So Raven. This means that same set of lockers first aired in 1989 during Saved By The Bell's heyday, and stayed on the air until iCarly's final season in 2012. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrity Crowdfunding ZACH BRAFF's movie is funded by fans! (And a financier.) Braff raised $2 million through Kickstarter for his film Wish / Was Here, and secured millions in extra support from a traditional film financier. Braff denied that this changed the picture he initially presented to fans. CRACKED — Source

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The voice of Boo from Monsters, Inc., Mary Gibbs, was just an actual toddler during production. CRACKED.COM The crew couldn't get her to sit still and read her lines, so they had her play in the studio while following her around with a mic. — Source

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Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction wouldn't have gotten made without Danny DeVito. His production company Jersey Films bought the Pulp Fiction script from Tarantino. DeVito was the person who then shopped the script around, and eventually brought it to Miramax, which made the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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They had to push Jimmy Fallon's jeep in his Band of Brothers cameo. It was a real WWII jeep, and he was a pretty bad driver, so he couldn't make it move. Two guys ended up having to push the jeep forward at the right moment while Fallon pretended to drive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Halle Berry spent 3-4 hours a day training dogs for John Wick: Chapter 3. It came after three hours of martial arts training and two hours of gun training. She didn't have to train dogs, but she did it just to be able to say she could. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Wars

Mark Hamill burst a blood vessel while filming the trash compactor scene in Star Wars. Не made his face red on purpose so he'd look like he's really really straining, but he overdid it and burst a blood vessel in his eye. It was so obvious, they had to make sure the camera wouldn't catch it until it healed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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In Billy Madison, Adam Sandler really hit kids with dodgeballs. When one of them started crying during the filming of the dodgeball scene, his parents came up to Sandler and complained. Sandler asked Didn't they read the script? and the parents told him They're six, they don't read yet. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Home Alone's movie-within-a-movie was shot in one day, in an abandoned high school gym. They filmed Angels with Filthy Souls on a sound stage in the New Trier West High School gymnasium (which was used for a lot of Home Alone's interior shots, too). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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J.K. Rowling told Alan Rickman the end to Snape's story arc before he ever appeared on camera. CRACKED.COM As a result, he often ar- gued with directors about knowing something that they didn't. Rickman used this knowledge to subtly inject affectations that would point to his hidden motives. — Source

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A Little Brain Donation For You

Movies can hire an Intimacy Coordinator for sex scenes. CRACKED.COM They are hired so that the scenes could remain safe, fol- low rules, and oversee to avoid potential issues. They also teach directors and ac- tors how to run a rehearsal by sculpting the physical ac- tions using plain words. — Source

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35 Mongolian wolves were trained in China for over 4 years for the 2015 film Wolf Totem. CRACKED.COM A Scottish trainer trained them to sit, snarl, and fight on cue. After filming, the wolves were ultimately re- located to Canada, since they only understood com- mands in English. — Source

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The Anti-American Idol was a terrible prank on contestants. CRACKED.COM In the WB's Superstar USA, the worst singers were ad- vanced to the next round, but they weren't told they were bad. At the end, the winner was let in on the joke that the whole thing was a prank. — Source

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1/3 of Tokyo Tower was constructed with scrap metal taken from US tanks damaged in the Korean War. CRACKED.COM It is also frequently used in the Japanese kaiju film genre. It's been the loca- tion of climactic 'battles' between Godzilla, Mothra, and King Kong wherein it's frequently destroyed and rebuilt. — Source

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Community

THE 6TH SEASON OF COMMUNITY WAS FILMED IN A BASEMENT. CRACKED It was filmed under the set of Parks and Rec! — Source

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Andy Samberg

ANDY SAMBERG ABSOLUTELY HATES LATE NIGHT HOSTING GIGS. JIMMY KIMMEL HAS COVID AGAIN CRACKED On a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel, Andy Samberg talked about his stint guest hosting the show. Не claimed it was super stressful and he'd never do it again. — Source

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MOST OF THE INNUENDOS ON NEW GIRL WERE WRITTEN TO PLACATE THE NETWORK'S CENSORS. ODEEN GRACKED Because the show was aired on network television, the writers had to get creative around weird rules. For example, they could only say penis 5 times in one episode. — Source

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The cover of the Nickelodeon Time Capsule was sold at auction for $19,200. MICKELODEON THE FIRST WOILD ORLANDO FLERIDA STUDIOS YDA 123 tar a 2147 SHILL LIK EL DUY NICKELODEON SUCH 53 THAT CRACKED.COM BLE ZGGL A time capsule filled with books, rollerblades, movies and more was buried at Nickel- odeon Studios in Florida in 1992, to be opened in 50 years. The studio closed and the cap- sule moved, with the 45 lb cov- er being auctioned off. — Source

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All of the chainmail in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was made by hand, link by link. The main characters wore lightweight chainmail, designed specifically for the films, that was 1/5th the weight of steel so the actors didn't suffer fa- tigue. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Angelina Jolie scared little kids while in costume on the set of Maleficent. One kid said, Mommy, please get the mean witch to stop talking to me. Her daughter, Vivienne Jo- lie-Pitt, who played young Aurora, was the only child who was not scared of her. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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Matthew Perry got Julia Roberts to guest-star in Friends by writing a paper on quantum physics. Perry asked her to come on the show, and she said she'd do it only if he wrote her a paper on quantum physics. Apparently, a day later, he wrote one and faxed it to her. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joe Keery originally wasn't supposed to play Steve in Stranger Things. Не auditioned for Jonathan, along with everybody across the country, but they ended up giving him Steve. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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You might have seen some of Independence Day's sets in other movies. Independence Day Crimson Tide They used the submarine interior from Crimson Tide and the stealth bomber interior from Broken Arrow. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Billy Zabka got into martial arts because of The Karate Kid. Не didn't know any martial arts going into the movie, and he kept training karate for five years with Pat Johnson, its martial arts choreographer, after filming wrapped up. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Coolio was supposed to play the Scarecrow in a Batman movie. Не did his minor cameo in Batman & Robin (at a street race) only because he was supposed to be the villain in Joel Schumacher's next Batman movie - which, of course, didn't happen. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Producers wanted Christopher Reeve to wear fake muscles. Не refused, and got so yolked they had to re-shoot the early scenes, for continuity. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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