Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Nearly a year after the film's premiere, Firth admitted in an interview that his role on The King's Speech had left him with a minor speech impediment, occasionally lapsing into a stammer during casual conversation. Fortunately, he appears to have hammered it out in the years since.

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The More You Know

  • While shooting 'Batman Begins' (2005) in Chicago, a drunk driver panicked and crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an invading alien.spacecraft
  • Peter O’Toole was nominated for eight performance Oscars and didn’t win a single one.
  • In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military training except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment towards him necessary for the role.
  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
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