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Brendan Fraser almost died filming The Mummy.
During a scene where his character is hanged, Fraser nearly lost his life on the set of The Mummy. According to co-star Rachel Weisz, Fraser had to be resuscitated after the botched hanging scene.
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Michael Fassbender had makeup artists put alcohol on his mustache for a role.
For 12 Years A Slave, Michael Fassbender had his makeup artist apply his mustache with alcohol. His reason? He wanted to better portray an alcoholic and wanted other actors to react naturally to the smell.
The Kingsman underwater scene was not scripted.
One of the most grueling scenes in Kingsman is the underwater escape scene. The actors delivered a scene that even had you panicking. However, it’s actually closer to life than you think. The flooding was a technical mishap that derailed the rehearsed flow of the scene. Director Matthew Vaughn recalls it as a horrible first day of filming. The cut was still used in the film.
There were 25 snakes found on The Maze Runner set.
The grassy plains of the first Maze Runner film definitely creates a fearful anticipation of what lies within – and for the film’s cast and crew, it would have been snakes. Prior to shooting, the production team had to hire snake wranglers to clear out the area. They located a total of 25 venomous snakes – with the biggest one they found at 5 feet long.
Crushed vitamins have been used for cocaine scenes in movies.
For The Wolf of Wall Street, the actors inhaled crushed B vitamins in cocaine-snorting scenes. In fact, after so much inhaling, Jonah Hill contracted bronchitis and had to be hospitalized.
Nestlé supplied 1,850 bars of real chocolate for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The 2005 Willy Wonka remake was definitely true to its namesake with the amount of chocolate used in the film.
Hugh Jackman went 36 hours without water for Les Miserables.
This caused the actor to lose water weight around his eyes and cheeks and end up looking as gaunt as a prisoner.
The foil seals on medicine bottles were placed due to poisoning incidents.
The Tylenol poisonings of 1982 was a widespread crisis that involved U.S. consumers dying or falling ill from Tylenol. It was later found that the bottles had been laced with potassium cyanide. To restore the faith of the public in the product and the company, Johnson & Johnson patented the seal to prevent further tampering incidents. This is also the thought behind the “Do not accept if seal is broken.” warnings that we see with other products.
North Koreans are shorter than South Koreans.
According to a researcher from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, North Koreans are, on average, four centimeters shorter than South Koreans. Factors that cause the height difference include malnourishment, economic stagnation, and lack of immigration.
A pig was once held in trial for the death of a child.
During the Middle Ages, it was normal for animals to be tried for human crimes. In 1386, a pig was even arrested for injuring a child. When the child died, the pig was placed in trial which ruled the pig’s public execution.