7/31/14


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.

7/30/14


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

7/29/14


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.

7/28/14


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

7/27/14


Sebastian Roche is often mistaken for Gordon Ramsay.

7/26/14


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

7/25/14


Ron Perlman played Sinestro in Green Lantern: The Animated Series

7/24/14


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.

7/23/14


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

7/22/14


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

7/21/14


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.

7/20/14


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".

7/19/14


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?".

7/18/14


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

7/16/14


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.

7/15/14

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

7/14/14


Ron Perlman is an avid cigar smoker and his characters are often seen smoking cigars, for example, his characters in The Last Supper (1995), Happy Texas (1999), Price of Glory (2000), Night Class (2001), and Hellboy (2004).

7/13/14


Jemaine Clement met both Bret McKenzie and Taika Cohen (a.k.a. Taika Waititi) at Victoria University of Wellington. He went on to form Flight of the Concords with McKenzie and The Humorbeasts with Cohen/Waititi.

7/12/14


Ron Perlman was ranked in US Magazine's "20 Who Turned Us On" list, December 26, 1988.

7/11/14


Bruce Willis recommended Michael Clarke Duncan to play John Coffey in The Green Mile (1999).

7/10/14


Sebastian Roche is fluent in four languages; English, Spanish, Italian and French.

7/9/14


Vin Diesel has admitted to being a fan of Dungeons and Dragons. According to an interview on Late Night With Conan O'Brien (1993), he's played for twenty-four years.

7/8/14


Danny Trejo was in fifteen episodes of The Young and the Restless as a bartender around 2008.

7/7/14


James Earl Jones was given an award for service to the black community but the company that made the award misprinted and it said James Earl Ray, the name of the man who killed Martin Luther King Jr.

7/4/14


Dolph Lundgren was born in 1957, but claims his birth year is 1959.

7/2/14


Vin Diesel was considered to voice the role of Ultron in the much-anticipated Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). They went with James Spader instead.

Vin Diesel once worked as a telemarketer, he sold light bulbs.

Simon Pegg was originally going to play Rose Tyler's father in the first series of Doctor Who (2005), but due to a scheduling conflict took the role of The Editor in another episode of the same series.

In Evil Dead II (1987), one of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.

Simon Pegg has sectoral heterochromia. His eye color is gray-blue but his right iris has a noticeable brown spot.

The movie Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) was filmed in thirty days, an unusually long time for such a low budget film.

Most of Evil Dead II (1987) was filmed on a set built inside the gym of JR Faison Junior High School in Wadesboro, North Carolina.

Emma Watson's part in This is the End (2013) was originally written for Mila Kunis, who had to turn down the role due to a scheduling conflict.

For his 2004 movie The Chronicles of Riddick, Vin Diesel really wanted Judi Dench to play Aereon the Elemental and went to great lengths to reach her. Diesel is a long-time fan of Dench, he had her dressing room filled with bouquets of flowers and told her that they couldn't start casting the movie until she agreed to the role.

Stephen King was such a huge fan of The Evil Dead (1981) that over dinner he convinced producer Dino De Laurentis, who was at the time producing King's movie Maximum Overdrive (1986), to have his production company DEG (De Laurentis Entertainment Group) finance Evil Dead II (1987).