Movies/Tv - Facts and Trivia

The bald kid in the movie The Golden Child was portrayed as young boy but in actually fact was a young female actress.

Same as the 'boy' that played Tripitaka in the 80's series of MONKEY! It was so obvious a girl that had shaved her head! British actress Miriam Margoyles provided 'his' voice among some others and Burt Kwouk(who was Cato the man servant always trying to karate his boss Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films) also provided a voice.

Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd is credited as 'Aristocracy co-ordinator' in 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is credited in 2015's Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens ("thanks: Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Secretary of State, United Kingdom")

The creation of the character The Joker was inspired from the 1928?silent move The Man Who Laughs

This is my last contribution to this thread. Some amazing stuff posted here.
Derek Meddings who started out on Thunderbirds creating Thunderbird 2 and other vehicles as well as designing the many special effects used later worked on James Bond(For Your Eyes Only - the helicopter out of control, Moonraker - the Space Shuttle launches-) and the original BATMAN film (1989) right up to Goldeneye, another James Bond film but that would prove to be his last as died soon after that.
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Actor Steve Guttenberg turned down the role of Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters and went for the role of Carey Mahoney in Police Academy of that sane year 1984.
He also turned down the role of Josh Baskin in Big and the role of course went to Tom Hanks.

The bit in Terminator where the Terminator is crushed and killed by Sarah Connor you see smoke coming out of it as it’s being crushed is actually cigarette smoke being blown in front of camera.

The bit where the T-1000 passes through the metal bars in Terminator 2 that sound effect was done by dropping the contents of dog food from can and recording the sound.

The Sopranos Shares 28 Cast Members With Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas.

According to IMDb, six regular Sopranos cast members appeared in Goodfellas (Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico, Vincent Pastore, Frank Vincent, and Joseph R. Gannascoli). Ten recurring Sopranos characters and 11 one-time guest stars also appeared in the 1990 Martin Scorsese masterpiece.

A couple of 'Point Break' facts (the 1991 version not the 2015 remake).

The Ex-Presidents Were Real Surfers!

Instead of getting actors who could surf, Bigelow cast surfers who could act to be in the gang of "Ex-Presidents". Bojesse Christopher (who plays Grommet) and John Philbin (who plays Nathaniel) were pro surfers who acted on the side.

Swayze Missed Out On The Shooting The Foot Chase!

Swayze is not the one wearing the Reagan mask during the foot chase sequence. Instead, his stunt double, Scott Wilder, performed the scene because Swayze was in Europe doing press for Ghost.