Today is Idris Elba's 42's birthday

The character of Shrek from the movie franchise Shrek (2003) was modeled after Russian-born French professional wrestler Maurice Tillet.

Errol Flynn was a British citizen, Australian citizenship did not exist before the creation of the Commonwealth in 1949, ten years before Flynn's death.

Errol Flynn began to dabble in opium in the late 1940's after telling his second wife that he wanted to experience everything in life and Flynn quickly became a full-blown addict. This opium addiction and the effects of Flynn's alcohol problem contributed to his premature death in 1959. He was only fifty years old when he died.

Errol Flynn's dream project was a biopic about notorious Irish-Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, this was nearly produced by Warner Brothers in the mid 1940's.

Errol Flynn was a friend of Hermann Erben, a monkey expert, drug dealer, Hitler impersonator and German agent who voluntarily spent three years in Shanghai in a Japanese internment camp.

Dieselday!

Vin Diesel traded a cameo in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) for rights to the character Riddick from Pitch Black (2000) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004).

Warner Brothers's publicity department attempted to claim that Errol Flynn was from Ireland. Flynn is actually from Tasmania, an island state of Australia, though his genealogy shows both Irish and British heritage.

In the film Lucy (2014), the scenes in Asia take place in Taiwan. However, the character Mr. Jang and his henchmen all speak Korean.

Karl Urban's accent as Leonard "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek (2009) was so reminiscent of DeForest Kelley that reportedly it moved Leonard Nimoy, Spock in the original series and Kelley's costar, to tears.

Karl Urban's a huge fan of the Indiana Jones movies, so much so that he named one of his sons Indiana. "Indy" was born in 2005.

Karl Urban is a gamer, which is what motivated him to take his role in the film adaptation of Doom (2005).

Steve Carell and Jim Carrey wre both ice hockey goalies during their childhoods.

Vin Diesel has a fraternal twin brother named Paul Vincent. Paul's a film editor.

Steve Carell suffers from hay fever.

Steve Carell was formerly a reporter for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (1996), along with Steven Colbert. Carell and Colbert have remained good friends.

Steve Carell is one of the 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.

Steve Carell owns and operates the Marshfield Hills General Store in Marshfield, Massachusetts. He has a summer home there.

Today, August 16th, is Steve Carell's 52nd birthday.

Sebastian Stan is Romanian, he was born in Constanta, Romania.

Dieselday!

Vin Diesel was offered the role of Matt Murdock/Daredevil in the movie Daredevil (2003). Ben Afleck got the role instead.

Errol Flynn was chosen by Empire Magazine as #86 of the 100 sexiest stars in film history.

Errol Flynn is frequently mentioned in Marvel Comic's X-Men as the character Nightcrawler's idol.

Errol Flynn had a vasectomy in 1955.

While banned from drinking on a film set, Errol Flynn would inject oranges with Vodka and eat them during his breaks.

The first inter-racial kiss was on Star Trek (the original series) between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura.

In the bar scene in the movie Hudson Hawk (1991), Bruce Willis' character mentions reindeer goat-cheese pizza, which Willis also mentions in The Last Boy Scout (1991).

Dieselday!

Vin Diesel's birth name is Mark Sinclair Vincent.

In the film Hudson Hawk (1991), the tones that the electronic handcuffs that the Mayflowers put on Hawk make are the same as the telephone tones used in Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967). James Coburn appears in all three films, here as villain George Kaplan, which is the name of the fake agent in North by Northwest (1959).

Bruce Willis plays the harmonica.

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

Bruce Campbell directed two episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess, those episodes being The Key to the Kingdom and The King of Assassins. Campbell also played the character Autolycus in eight episodes; The Royal Couple of Thieves, The Quest, The King of Assassins, Tsunami, Vanishing Act, A Tale of Two Muses, The Key to the Kingdom, and Takes One to Know One.

Dolph Lundgren plays the drums.

The windbreaker that Michael Cera wears in This Is the End (2013) was his idea. According to Seth Rogan, being allowed to wear it was Cera's only condition before agreeing to be in the movie. Rogan thought he would be much more concerned with the inappropriate behavior in the script.

Vin Diesel remained close with The Fast and the Furious (2001) castmates Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson and the late Paul Walker.

Channing Tatum agreed to film his cameo in the film This Is the End (2013) within twenty minutes of Seth Rogan sending him an email explaining the scene that he would be in: as himself, as Danny McBride's sex slave.

Norman Reedus, Daryl on The Walking Dead, runs a New York-based film production company called Bigbaldhead.

Sebastian Roche is often mistaken for Gordon Ramsay.

Mark Ruffalo was a bartender for nearly a decade while trying to break into show business.

Ron Perlman played Sinestro in Green Lantern: The Animated Series

In the series Orange is the New Black, the transgender prisoner is played by a transgender woman with an identical twin brother who plays the same character during pre-transition flashbacks.

As a teenager, Vin Diesel performed in an instructional video on breakdancing.

Sofia Vergara is naturally blond but is frequently asked to dye her hair brown to appear as "a more typical Latina".

While filming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Helena Bonham Carter accidentally ruptured Matthew Lewis' eardrum when she stuck her wand in his ear.

Reportedly on the set of Armageddon, Ben Afleck asked Michael Bay "Wouldn't it make more sense just to train experienced astronauts how to drill instead of the other way around?", to which Bay answered, "Shut the fuck up".

Loony Toons voice actor Mel Blanc fell into a coma and remained unresponsive until a neurosurgeon addressed him as Bugs Bunny, to which he replied, "Myeeeeh. What's up, doc?".

Dolph Lundgren was the European Heavyweight Karate Champion from 1980 to 1981 and Australian Heavyweight Karate Champion in 1982.

Mark Ruffalo is a vegetarian.

Revolution Studios wanted Vin Diesel to play the title role in Hellboy (2004), but director Guillermo del Toro thought that Ron Perlman was the perfect fit for the role and refused to direct the film if Perlman was not cast.

Sebastian Roche lived on a sail boat with his family for six years.