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Trivia: Many ideas from the original script that were cut were later recycled into the various sequels. Series creator Don Mancini has stated that if he comes up with a good scene that doesn't quite fit one Chucky movie, he always keeps it written down because there's a very good chance it could be used in a later sequel.

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Trivia: In an eerie example of life sort of imitating art, Ed Gale, an actor with dwarfism who doubled as Chucky in a couple of shots in the first few of the "Child's Play" movies (in addition to playing the titular character in "Howard the Duck"), was caught by an online sex predator hunting group in a sting operation in 2023.

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Trivia: Chris Sarandon was supposed to be top-billed, but insisted that Catherine Hicks instead be given top billing, despite being a smaller "name," as she was the lead character and he admired her performance.

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Trivia: The actor in the full-sized Chucky suit on the commercial was John Franklin, perhaps best known for playing Isaac in the original "Children of the Corn." Isaac often portrayed younger or smaller-statured "suit" characters despite being an adult due to a growth-hormone deficiency that resulted in him being shorter than average. (And having a very young-looking face.)

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Trivia: By chance, while he was in college, franchise creator Don Mancini had audited an acting class being taught by actor Brad Dourif, who he greatly admired. He was pleasantly surprised when he found out Dourif was cast as Chucky several years later after his screenplay was purchased and went into production. The two later became good friends.

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Trivia: Director Tom Holland was fired during post because (allegedly) he clashed with producers, and his director's cut was a huge mess. His cut ran 2 hours and had tons of superfluous scenes, plus a different voice for Chucky. The movie was supposedly laughed out of test-screenings, with one audience member quipping "Don't touch him! They'll make a sequel!" during the climax. Holland turned to an executive and said "Now I know how to fix it!", but the executive bluntly replied "You're fired. Get out."

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Trivia: Director Tom Holland was extremely difficult on-set according to producer David Kirschner. While Kirschner respected Holland as a filmmaker, he was also volatile and controlling, and even started a physical fight with Kirschner over a simple disagreement. Kirschner also alleged that Holland fired a gun at him one day before revealing it was loaded with blanks; it was simply done as a cruel prank on Kirschner to assert "dominance." Needless to say, Holland wasn't asked back for the sequels.

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Trivia: Chucky's voice was a major hurdle for the film's production. The director and producers tried several different voices for the doll. Most notably, actress Jessica Walter (perhaps best known for playing Lucille on "Arrested Development") was even brought in to voice Chucky at one point, in order to give the character a more light, doll-like voice. However, a test screening of the film using Walter's voice was disastrous, as audiences felt her voice didn't work with Chucky's dark humor. Eventually, it was decided that the voice of Brad Dourif, who played Chucky as a human, should be used. And of course that decision paid off big time.

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Trivia: The film establishes that the longer Chucky's soul inhabits the doll, the more "human" it becomes. To subtly allude to this fact, the special effects team made several variations of the doll that were used throughout filming, with each new doll having slightly more "human" qualities than the previous doll. A prime example is the skin tone - the films starts with Chucky looking like a real doll with shiny and bright plastic skin, but by the end of the film, the skin is less shiny, less vibrant and a bit more "elastic" in quality, more like human skin than plastic. Chucky's eyes were also made somewhat more translucent and realistic as the film progressed, and were even set back further into the head in later scenes.

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