Robert Pattinson tried to keep his audition for
#TheBatman
a secret from Christopher Nolan while filming 'Tenet'
'I said I had a family emergency. And as soon as I said ‘it’s a family emergency’ he said: ‘You’re doing the Batman audition, aren’t you?'’ 😂
James Cameron offered Matt Damon the lead role in 'Avatar' and 10% of the film's box office but he turned it down
The film grossed over $2.8B
“I will go down in history… you will never meet an actor who turned down more money"
Quentin Tarantino says that Hans Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) is the best character he's ever written and he almost canceled the movie because he couldn't find the right actor to play him
A week before pulling the plug, Christoph Waltz auditioned for the role
Leonardo DiCaprio thinks of 'Django Unchained', 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' as an unofficial trilogy about wealth and power across American history
After filming 'BlacKkKlansman' (2018), Topher Grace was so depressed from playing David Duke and seeing his idealogy still happen in present-day, that he decided to edit Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy into a 2-hour film as an act of catharsis
#FightClub
got booed when it debuted at
#VeniceFilmFestival
While it was being booed, Brad Pitt turned to Edward Norton and said, 'That's the best movie I'm ever gonna be in'
Miles Teller found out he had jet fuel in his bloodstream while filming
#TopGun2
“I go to set the next day and Tom Cruise‘s like, ‘How did it go?' I was like, ‘Well Tom, it turns out I have jet fuel in my blood.’ Without skipping a beat Tom goes ‘Yeah, I was born with it, kid"
The lunch tray scene in ‘Spider-Man’ (2002) was not CGI. The scene took Tobey Maguire 156 takes to get right and required a 16-hour long day of shooting to achieve
When Harrison Ford was asked if Han Solo was a Force ghost in 'The Rise of Skywalker', his answer was 'I have no fucking idea what a Force ghost is. And I don’t care'
The final scene in 'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012) of Bruce Wayne finding happiness was planned when they started writing the Trilogy
"It remained completely unchanged"
Natalie Portman says that no director wanted to work with her after starring in the Star Wars prequel trilogy because everyone thought she was a 'horrible actress'
Since then, she has been nominated for 3 Oscars and won Best Actress for 'Black Swan' (2011)
Charlie Cox auditioned for Han Solo in
#SoloAStarWarsStory
, but lost out because he spent the entire audition staring past his co-lead rather than at them. He was talked to about it and realized that he had been acting blind for the past 2 years due to
#Daredevil
Brad Bird was inspired to make 'The Iron Giant' (1999) in memory of his sister Susan, who died at the hands of her husband by gun violence
His pitch was this: 'What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to be a gun?'
For 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) George Miller wanted his wife Margaret Sixel to edit the film. When she asked him why, as she had never edited an action film before, Miller said, 'Because if a guy did it, it would look like every other action movie'
She went on to win an Oscar
In 'Tropic Thunder' (2008), Robert Downey Jr.'s character states 'I don't drop character 'til I've done the DVD commentary'
During the commentary for the movie, RDJ remains in character
For 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation' (2015) Tom Cruise performed the sequence where he's hanging onto a flying airplane without digital effects or a stunt double. At times, the aircraft reached 5,000 ft in the air
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In 'Elf' (2003) most of the montage of Buddy discovering New York was unscripted
Jon Favreau would drop Will Ferrell off in random spots in the city and have him mess with people in character
For 'Interstellar' (2014), Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn just for the film because he did not want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he turned it around and sold the corn and made back profit for the budget
Leonardo DiCaprio thinks of 'Django Unchained', 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' as an unofficial trilogy about wealth and power across American history
Taika Waititi, who is Maori/Jewish, said he did zero research on Adolf Hitler before playing him in
#JojoRabbit
(2019) because 'he was such a fucking cunt' and when asked why he wanted to play Hitler, Waititi said, 'the answer's simple, what better 'fuck you' to the guy?'
For 'Interstellar' (2014), Christopher Nolan planted 500 acres of corn just for the film because he did not want to CGI the farm in. After filming, he turned it around and sold the corn and made back profit for the budget
While filming a scene for 'Django Unchained' (2012), Leonardo DiCaprio started to feel discomfort from using the N-word so much
Samuel L. Jackson then pulled him aside and said 'Motherfucker, this is just another Tuesday for us. Let's go'
For 'Moonlight' (2016) the three actors who played Chiron over his life never met during production or watched each other’s scenes because Barry Jenkins didn't want them to influence the other portrayals. The consistency is attributed to the actors becoming immersed in the script
'The Witch' (2015) director Robert Eggers says his number one tip for screenwriters is don't put a goat in your film
"You can't train a goat, the goat was a fucking nightmare"
In 'Fast and Furious 6' (2013), the 'hide your baby oil' scene was improvised. So Ludacris' reaction is genuine and The Rock didn't have a line after Tyrese said his
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 onscreen took approx 100 days to render the final copy
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Quentin Tarantino says that Hans Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) is the best character he's ever written and he almost canceled the movie because he couldn't find the right actor to play him
A week before pulling the plug, Christoph Waltz auditioned for the role
In ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008) the part where the batmobile crashes head-on into the garbage truck was achieved by using 1/3 scale miniatures of the vehicles and location 🦇
During this scene in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' (2004), Jim Carrey forgot his next line but stayed in character while asking the director for another take
Christopher Nolan says he rarely rewatches movies in theaters but he went and saw ‘La La Land’ 3 times
“I enjoyed that tremendously … I think I almost went back to see if it was as good as I had thought, and it was"
When 'Prisoner of Azkaban' director Alfonso Cuarón wanted to become acquainted with the leads of his movie he asked each to write an essay on their character ✍️
• Emma Watson wrote a 16-page paper
• Daniel Radcliffe wrote a one-page summary
• Rupert Grint never turned one in
Christopher Nolan talks the scene where Cooper finds out he missed out on his kids' lives in
#Interstellar
"It was always the north star of the film ... We filmed McConaughey’s reaction first ... he hadn’t seen the video messages—we’d filmed them all in advance, so that…
In 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (2019) Rick Dalton saying 'Alright, that's too hot. Anything we can do about the heat?' was Leonardo DiCaprio's genuine reaction to the flamethrower. Quentin Tarantino thought it was funny so he left it in the movie
in 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' (2019), the camera was intentionally placed upside down during the Leap of Faith scene to show that Miles is rising, not falling🕷
Chadwick Boseman donated part of his own salary for ‘21 Bridges' to co-star Sienna Miller when the studio refused to match her demands
"There was no showiness, it was, ‘Of course I'll get you to that number because that's what you should be paid’”
In ‘Django Unchained’ (2012), Leonardo DiCaprio cut his hand and began to bleed. He ignored it, stayed in character, and continued with the scene. Tarantino was so impressed that he used this take in the final cut
Quentin Tarantino says that Hans Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) is the best character he's ever written and he almost canceled the movie because he couldn't find the right actor to play him
A week before pulling the plug, Christoph Waltz auditioned for the role
Ridley Scott is not a fan of superhero films
“They’re fucking boring as shit … Their scripts are not any fucking good … they’re superhero movies. So, why don’t [they] have better stories? … They’re mostly saved by special effects”
In 'The Dark Knight' (2008), during the fundraiser scene, Alfred was supposed to have some dialogue when the Joker first shows up, but it was Michael Caine's first time seeing Heath Ledger as the Joker and he was so scared that he forgot all of his lines 🃏
'Kung-Fu Panda' (2008) was so successful in China that it caused a national debate on why Westerners made a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves 🐼
The lunch tray scene in ‘Spider-Man’ (2002) was not CGI. The scene took Tobey Macguire 156 takes to get right and required a 16-hour long day of shooting to achieve
In 1998, Marvel offered Sony the movie rights to almost all of their characters including Iron Man, Thor, Black Panther, & Ant-Man for just $25M
Sony counter-offered with $7M for just Spider-Man because they thought 'nobody gives a shit about any of the other Marvel characters'
In 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' Indiana Jones was supposed to have a lengthy duel with this swordsman that would take 3 days to film but Harrison Ford was suffering from dysentery. He then suggested to Spielberg that they just 'shoot this son of a bitch'
In 'Mulan' (1998), Mulan touches her hair a lot because the directors noticed that voice actress Ming-Na Wen touched her hair a lot while recording. So, they added it to the character
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In ‘Parasite’ (2019), Bong Joon-ho added subtle scenes with lines or objects separating poor and rich characters throughout the whole movie 🦠
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Jonah Hill was hospitalized with bronchitis after shooting 'The Wolf of Wall Street' (2013) because he had been snorting Vitamin B for close to seven months due to all of the scenes where his character rails coke
Leonardo DiCaprio improvised his trailer freak out scene in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
Quentin Tarantino — 'That was all improvised and wasn't written in the script'
Brad Pitt — 'And I will go on record, it is one of the best meltdowns laid on film'
Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. He said, 'I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back'
Robert Downey Jr. says he was 'a hundred percent' concerned that being in the MCU for a decade would affect his acting skills while filming
#Oppenheimer
Jim Carrey improvised the “Big Gulps, huh?” line in ‘Dumb and Dumber’ (1994)
Also, the Big Gulpers weren’t even extras. They were hanging out watching the filming and director Peter Farrelly put them in a scene
Shia LaBeouf has done some wild stuff for his David Ayer films
For 'Fury' (2014), he cut a scar onto his face and got a perfectly healthy tooth removed 🦷
For 'The Tax Collector' (2020), he tattooed his entire chest 💉
Robert Pattinson tried to keep his Batman audition a secret from Christopher Nolan while filming 'Tenet'
'I said I had a family emergency. And as soon as I said ‘it’s a family emergency’ he said: ‘You’re doing the Batman audition, aren’t you?' 😂