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40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pressed in the Fact Vats With Our Own Bare Feet

Do you have what it takes to be a pro screamer?

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pressed in the Fact Vats With Our Own Bare Feet

November 08, 2024

Elijah Wood DIY’d scenes from Lord of the Rings in a public park for his audition.

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Apollo 13

Astronauts are really into watching space disaster movies on the ISS. They have movie nights on the ISS, and they watch movies on a screen and projector- they love sci-fi and disaster movies set in space, like Apollo 13. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The Naked Scientists

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Grindhouse

Grindhouse - Some of the fake trailers became real movies. The film features a bunch of trailers for fake movies, directed by Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, and others. Jason Eisener's Hobo With a Shotgun and Rodriguez's own Machete were made into actual movies. — Source

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Thor: Ragnarok

Movies With Sneaky Shout-Outs To Other Movies - Valkyrie's way of opening bottles in Thor: Ragnarok is a New Zealand film — Source: Film School Rejects

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Jennifer Aniston

CRACKED AWARD TN JENNIFER ANISTON THINKS MARVEL IS DIMINISHING THE MOVIE-MAKING INDUSTRY. She told Variety that streaming shows are getting better and better, but Marvel is diminishing the quality of movies, and called for a resurgence of cozy Meg Ryan movies. — Buzzfeed

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Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson's favorite Jackson movies aren't what you think. It's not, say, a bunch of Tarantino movies - his list of his favorite movies only includes one Tarantino film, Jackie Brown, and movies like The Long Kiss Goodnight from 1996 and The Red Violin from 1998. — Source

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Professional Screamers

Professional screamers work in movies. Very often, the screams you hear in movies don't come from the stars, but from specialized actors. These pros h — More: People Get Paid To Be Professional Screamers

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Baby Driver

Ingenious Ways Famous Movies Pulled OFor Baby Driver, the flashbacks of Baby's parents were shot with the kind of camera they shot silent movies with. — Source: Film School Rejects

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The Swarm

Disaster movies Then vs. Now Trash By the late-'70s, the disaster genre was slowly dying, with 1978's The Swarm at the bottom of the barrel. Yet modern disaster movies also have their low points, like the simply awful 2003 flick The Core. CRACKED.COM

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Motion Smoothing

Your TV makes movies look like garbage. New TVs use motion smoothing, a technology that adds made up frames to movies and shows to make them less — More: 5 Secret Reasons Movies Look Like Garbage

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Silencer

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pressed in the Fact Vats With Our Own Bare Feet — Source: NPR

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Rory McCann

Rory McCann didn't have his audition script. His sister printed out just the opening lines, by mistake. When he came to the audition, he saw everyone else had prepared a long speech he knew nothing about. So with nothing prepared, he just acted crazy ... and got the part. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Audition

CRACKED.COM Movies that switch genres mid-story 1999 Audition The first third is dramatic comedy sweetness, with a widower trying to find a new love under the pretense of holding TV auditions. We can see early '90s Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan meeting under this gimmick - but then the psychological horror and excruciating torture scenes begin. A Hanks/Ryan rom-com directed by Takashi Miike? Yes, please. — American Cinematheque
Trailer on YouTube

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Chris Colfer

Same series, almost a different role GLEE CHRIS COLFER as Artie Abrams Colfer's audition changed the show entirely. After losing his audition for Artie, the character of Kurt Hummel was created just for him. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Elijah Wood

Elijah Wood shot his own audition tape for the LOTR trilogy back in the day. Не did that way before making your own tape was common and, he says,he enlisted some friends, including George Huang, who is a writer and filmmaker. We went out to the woods in Griffith Park and shot two of the audition sequences there and one at my house. CRACKED COM — Source

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George Clooney

George Clooney lied to the exact wrong person. CRACKED.COM At an audition, he claimed to have been in Cat People. The casting director at that audition? Also the casting director of Cat People. — Source: 20 Actors Who (May Have) Lied To Get The Part

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Jung Ho-yeon

Jung Ho-yeon prepared really, really well for her Squid Game audition. To audition for the role of Kang Sae-byeok, her first-ever acting role, she spent three days doing nothing but eating and filming her audition tape. CRACKED.COM — Source: TIME

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Mark Strong

Mark Strong's audition for a Bond villain was a terrible experience. To celebrate the audition, he went out and got drunk, then came in for the actual audition still drunk and totally forgot all his lines in front of eight people. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Eddie Redmayne

Eddie Redmayne copied lan Holm for his The Hobbit audition. Redmayne auditioned for the character of Bilbo Baggins, SO he studied Holm's take on Baggins in Lord of the Rings. During his audition, the casting director immediately interrupted him, saying: No... own voice! Own voice! CRACKED COM — BBC America

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Tiffany Haddish

TIFFANY HADDISH If they don't give it to me, f*x*k them, Haddish said after her audition. They didn't. Haddish got the last laugh as the first blac — Source: Decider

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Josh Girard

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Jackie Coogan

CRACKED A CHILD ACTOR'S PARENTS SPENT ALL HIS MONEY In 1938, actor Jackie Coogan tried to get back the money he had earned as a kid actor from his own parents, but it didn't work out and he only ended up with $35,000. — Collider

19

Cheers

CRACKED RIP Cheers Coach Coach died suddenly and off-screen - the actor playing him, Nicholas Colasanto, died and they had to incorporate it into the script somehow. Amazingly, they only did it in the season after the actor's death. — Paramount Network Television
Entertainment Weekly

18

Bridgerton

One of the big problems for Bridgerton's sex scenes was an actor's height. Re%e-Jean page was too tall for Regency-era beds so they had to choreograph his sex scenes very carefully to keep him from falling off. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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8 Mile

AT A GLANCE EMINEM 8 Mile was Anthony Mackie's first film Eminem googled Anthony Mackie to learn about the actor's background and used details from his actual life in the battle against his character Papa Doc. Mackie's reaction was real. CRACKED.COM — Source: Rich Eisen Show

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Sam Rockwell

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pressed in the Fact Vats With Our Own Bare Feet

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Game of Thrones

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pressed in the Fact Vats With Our Own Bare Feet — Source: Telegraph

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Superman

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pressed in the Fact Vats With Our Own Bare Feet

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Lee Pace

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Pressed in the Fact Vats With Our Own Bare Feet

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Toy Story 4

In Toy Story 4, the names of the neglected toys that Woody ends up with are puns on their voice actor's name. For example, there's Melephant Brooks (M — Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Father Figures

What are they looking at? Actor's OWEN FD IK KATT TER VNG CHRISTOPHER GLENN WILSON HELM SIMMONS WILLIA S BRAD RHAMES WALKEN CLOSE heads taken from dif

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Cara Delevingne

Cara Delevingne is a successful bisexual actress who has been open about her relationships with both men and women. Despite this, she claims that early on in her career Harvey Weinstein told her that she wouldn't make it as an actress because of her sexuality. CRACKED.COM — Fox News

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Nikki Blonsky

HAIRSPRAY Tracy Turnblad CRACKED.COM Actress Nikki Blonsky, who played the lead in the 2007 remake, went on to become a hairdresser on Long Island. — Source

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Kristin Chenoweth

KRISTIN CHENOWETH COLLECTS QUARTERS The actress stores jars of quarters, which she disinfects with Purell. She says it's a holdover from being a broke actress. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Shirley Easton

Hollywood Rumors and Myths Did an actress die for real in Goldfinger? When Jill Masterson tries to double cross Goldfinger, he paints her gold, killing her via skin asphyxiation. Many people somehow believed that actress Shirley Eaton actually died in real life, because of how realistic the scene looks. CRACKED — Eon Productions, United Artists
BBC

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Maude Flanders

A Simpsons character got killed off because the voice actress was too expensive. The character is Maude Flanders, and the show offed her rather than give the actress the raise she had asked for. CRACKED.COM — Source: LATimes

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Viola Davis

CRACKED.COM - OMIC CON doobag Viola Davis She shares an Oscar record with Whoopi Goldberg. Davis and Goldberg are the only black actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress. — Factinate

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You’re Next

ACTRESS SHARNI VINSON ALMOST LOST AN EYE WHILE FILMING YOU'RE NEXT. During the first scene where the family goes into full blown panic, Vinson's character dives and crawls underneath the dining table. As she dived, though, she went straight into the high heel of the actress playing the sister. She had a black eye for days. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bloody Disgusting

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Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin made an actress do over 300 takes of a super-simple scene. In 1931's City Lights, Virginia Cherrill plays a flower girl who offers Cha — Source: 6 Scenes In Famous Movies That Were Insanely Hard To Film

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A Quiet Place

15 Actors Behind Important Details In Movies And Shows - John Krasinski insisted they cast a deaf actress to play Regan in A Quiet Place. Screenwrite — Source: HuffPost

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Friends

Janice's laugh in F.R.LE.N.D.S. was inspired by an actor, a dolphin, and a cartoon character. Actress Maggie Wheeler revealed that Ronald Palillo infl

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