I Learned Something Today

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Jaclyn Smith is one of the two Charlie's Angels stars to appear in both the TV series and the films, with the other one being John Forsythe.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Jennifer Aniston is not proud of her Friends character's iconic haircut.

 

[BattleForBFDIFan4]

I just learned last Friday while watching a Ren And Stimpy Documentary (2020), that there was a animation strike (NOT DISNEY) in 1979 due to the overseas issues.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Hayden Christensen is the only actor to play both Anakin Skywalker and his villainous alter ego Darth Vader as originally, a stuntman was going to don his life support suit after he completes his transformation as Vader but Christensen (who grew up watching the original trilogy as a kid and always wanted to play Vader prior to being cast) convinced the crew to build the suit for him (he's 6', eight inches shorter than Vader's original suit actor David Prowse) and various camera tricks were used to make him appear to be the same size as Prowse, so when he showed up donning the suit, the crew cheered.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Licence to Kill was originally titled Licence Revoked.

Atlantis was going to be Disney's first PG-13 animated film.

Is that true?

 

[harry580]

oh you dont get it anyway i can delete that if i want

 

[harry580]

titan ae is going to be called planet ice

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Janet Jackson was considered for the roles of Trinity in The Matrix and Storm in X-Men.

Oh, you don't get it anyway. I can delete that if you want.

No, it's just that I'm unsure on that. I don't think you should delete it at all.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Before he played Superman, Henry Cavill auditioned for the role of James Bond in Casino Royale but was turned down as he considered too young to play him since he was 22 at the time of his audition.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Chris Tucker's Fifth Element character Ruby Rhod was originally intended for Prince.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Arnold Schwarzenegger turned down the lead role in The Rock, which was later occupied by Nicolas Cagee and he later regretted turning it down.

 

[twilicorn]

When John C. Reilly was 12 years old he and his friends stole 500 boxes of Sugar Corn Pops from a freight train
EDITED TO ADD: He talks about it here

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Sean Bean's GoldenEye character Alec Trevelyan was originally written for the likes of either Anthony Hopkins or Alan Rickman.

 

[BattleForBFDIFan4]

I just learned that Popeye is already considered to be an old-time favorite by even 1959.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder character Tugg Speedman was originally written for Keanu Reeves.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Jonny Lee Miller played Sherlock Holmes more times than any other actor, having played him in all 154 episodes of Elementary.

 

[harry580]

at one time there a cinema that accidentally showed saw 3d instead of megamind

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Sean Connery and George Lazenby are the only brown-eyed James Bond actors, whereas their successors Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig have blue eyes.

 

[twilicorn]

at one time there a cinema that accidentally showed saw 3d instead of megamind

I remember there was a theater that showed The Hills Have Eyes 2 instead of The Last Mimzy. The former film has an opening scene involving a naked woman graphically birthing a mutant. Think of all those poor kids that got traumatized over that.

Also, TIL in the early 1900s Wagner von Jauregg treated syphilis patients with malaria (winning the Nobel Prize). The patients developed malaria, causing a severe fever and killed the syphilis bacteria. Then given the malaria drug quinine and cured. This was used until the development of penicillin

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

The DeLorean was not the original idea for the time travelling machine for Back to the Future. A fridge was originally considered for such but it was discarded out of fear that it would lead to children going inside their fridges.