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Trivia: Director James Cameron initially wanted Gwyneth Paltrow to play Rose, but she passed on the role telling the media is wasn't "her cup of tea". Coincidentally, Kate Winslet rejected the role of Viola in Shakespeare in Love, which eventually went to Gwyneth.

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Trivia: Michael Bay, a long-time collaborator of the film's producer Jerry Bruckheimer, makes a cameo as a photographer.

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Trivia: Although Piper Perabo was able to sing for her character, it was decided that LeAnn Rimes would provide Violet's singing voice, albeit with a deliberate deviation from her natural vocal range. This means that during LeAnn's cameo in the movie, she is effectively duetting with herself.

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Trivia: Another link to the Godfather series: Al Pacino and Andy Garcia had previously starred together in The Godfather Part III in 1990.

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Trivia: For this film, Daniel Craig truly suffered for his art: he had the tip of a finger sliced off, injured his shoulder and got a cut on the face that required 8 stitches to fix.

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Trivia: Willem Dafoe was briefly considered for the role of the Joker. Writer Sam Hamm recalls, "We thought, 'Well, Willem Dafoe looks just like The Joker.'" Coincidentally, Dafoe would go on to play the archenemy of another superhero, the Green Goblin from Spider-Man.

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Trivia: In the locker room scene, there is a fleeting shot of a topless policewoman putting on her uniform. Director Paul Verhoven said the shot was included to show the gender neutrality of the future, but was so fleeting it went largely unnoticed. The shower scene in Starship Troopers (also directed by Verhoven) was in a similar and more noticeable vein. (00:57:20)

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Trivia: The flashback in which V escapes from the flaming Larkhill facility was done in-camera with CG only for touchups because of cost issues. Stuntman Chad Stahelski wore only a G-string and cooling gel to protect him from the flames while performing the stunt.

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Trivia: The scene with the dominoes was achieved completely physically. Weijers Domino Productions from the Netherlands took three days to set up 22 000 dominoes for the scene and actually had to do it twice because of issues with the camera angles the first time around.

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Trivia: Several sequences in the film were filmed in the IMAX format, including the chase in Lower Wacker. During the chase, a car hit and damaged one of the IMAX cameras, leaving just three in existence. However, the scene was captured with another camera as well and was deemed impressive enough to make it into the final cut of the film.

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Trivia: Harrison Ford was a Boy Scout in his youth, reaching the level of Life Scout. Steven Spielberg paid homage to this by making young Indy a Life Scout.

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Trivia: The human excrement into which youngest Jamal jumps in the "toilet escape" sequence was actually chocolate.

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Trivia: The voice of ARIIA is actually Julianne Moore who went uncredited for the role.

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Trivia: Ronald Lacey, who played Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark, cameos as Hitler's top adviser, Heinrich Himmler, during the book-burning sequence.

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Trivia: Kate Beckinsale plays a vampire and Michael Sheen plays a werewolf, both eternally warring in the film. Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen were formerly romantically involved, and in fact they have a daughter from their long-time romance.

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