You’ll Never Believe What Went on Behind the Scenes of These Award-Winning Films

Briget Jones’s Diary

Renée Zellwegger prepared for this role by gaining 25 pounds. She also worked at a British publishing company for a month under an alias. Zellwegger kept a framed photo of Jim Carrey, her then-boyfriend, which her coworkers found peculiar, but nobody ever mentioned it so as not to embarrass her.

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The More You Know

  • The location of Tony Stark’s mansion in Iron Man is the same cliff from Planet of the Apes where the Statue of Liberty is sticking out from the sand.
  • Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until his son begged him to do it.
  • Enya was James Cameron’s first choice to compose the music for Titanic.
  • Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in five days. It is rumoured he had a loaded gun by his desk for “inspiration and motivation”.
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