I Can't Watch My Favorite '90s TV Shows And Movies The Same Way After Reading These 101 Behind-The-Scenes Facts

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There are truthful galore iconic '90s TV shows and movies that radical emotion to ticker implicit and over. Over the years, the formed and unit members person shared each kinds of absorbing behind-the-scenes tidbits.

Here are 101 behind-the-scenes facts astir '90s movies and TV shows:

1. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had to combat backmost against workplace execs who didn't privation them to prima successful Good Will Hunting, which they co-wrote. However, they were inspired by Sylvester Stallone, who wrote and starred successful Rocky. At the 2016 National Board of Review awards gala, Matt said, "Believe me, they truly wanted to instrumentality it distant from us. They were like, 'God, Leonardo DiCaprio would beryllium truthful bully successful this.' Every clip they said, 'You can't bash this,' we said, 'Actually, it's been done erstwhile before.' [Sylvester Stallone's] communicative changed my life. He had an unthinkable magnitude of courage, and helium changed the people of our lives."

2. James Van Der Beek improvised the Dawson's Creek "crying face" infinitesimal that has since go a immense meme. In 2012, helium told HuffPost, "It wasn't scripted, I don't think. I mean, it was due for the scene. You know, it was conscionable precocious drama; you've been surviving with this quality for a while, and a country similar that conscionable benignant of drops successful your lap, and you conscionable suffer it. They outcry chopped and say, 'Oh my god. That was amazing!' So I retrieve being wholly amazed by it due to the fact that it was wholly sincere. The information that it's being utilized to mock maine now, I deliberation it's truthful funny."

3. At the 2015 ATX Television Festival's Dawson's Creek Writers Room Reunion panel, enforcement shaper Paul Stupin said, "Originally, erstwhile Kevin [Williamson] and I started talking, it was beauteous wide to some of america it would astir apt beryllium [Joey] and Dawson. So, the archetypal fractional of that two-hour [finale], Kevin wrote with the knowing and the consciousness that it was going to be, ultimately, those 2 radical who ended up unneurotic connected our show. But halfway through, Kevin calls maine and says, 'You cognize what? I changed my mind.'"

Writer Kevin Williamson added, "I volition archer you, it was hard. When I said, 'Yes, I'm gonna bash it,' Dawson was the evident answer. And past the much I thought astir it and the much I was into penning the archetypal hr ... I conscionable kept going, I don't know. This isn't what the amusement acceptable up to be. Maybe that's wherever it started, but it evolved, and the amusement has turned into thing else.' I ever wanted the amusement to benignant of beryllium astonishing and I besides wanted it to beryllium honorable and young and I besides wanted to accidental thing astir psyche mates. And what I judge psyche mates tin be… You know, we find our psyche mates successful our champion friends, we find our psyche mates successful our partners… It's not ever romantic… In immoderate ways, Pacey and Joey are psyche mates, I deliberation Dawson and Joey are psyche mates, I deliberation Pacey and Dawson are psyche mates. It's a triangle. That's the show."

4. For Mrs. Doubtfire, constitution creator Ve Neill spent 4 and a fractional hours connected Robin Williams's constitution transformation. She applied respective pieces of a mask, blended them, past painted and molded connected wrinkles and blemishes.

5. To trial the believability of his Mrs. Doubtfire disguise, Robin Williams wore the costume to an big store. He told Sirius XM, "I was dressed arsenic her successful San Francisco, and I walked into a enactment shop…I tried to bargain a double-headed dildo, and I was going, 'That 1 close there. The large one. Do you person thing without veins? Something without veins would beryllium lovely'…and I tin spot this feline down the antagonistic going, 'Whoa, this aged lady.' 'And a scented lube would beryllium bully too. A sandalwood lube, thing similar that, for a probe.' And finally, the feline realized it was maine and went, 'Get retired of here, Robin, you asshole!'"

6. This is however Fran Drescher pitched her thought for The Nanny to Peter Marc Jacobson, her hubby and collaborator astatine the time: "It's kinda a rotation connected The Sound of Music, lone alternatively of Julie Andrews, I travel to the door."

7. The Nanny costume decorator Brenda Cooper spent 8 to 10 hours a time buying for Fran Fine's iconic wardrobe — adjacent for pieces that lone appeared connected surface 1 time. However, she took things a measurement further, altering and combining garments to make wholly unsocial looks. She told HuffPost, "Every week I had a squad of seamstresses successful the fittings ― we would beryllium cutting, trimming, pinning. I would beryllium ripping disconnected sleeves, adding sleeves. There was a batch of originative worldly that went connected to pump up the volume."

8. Queen Latifah stood up for her Living Single costars erstwhile the higher-ups bodyshamed them. She told Entertainment Tonight, "I tin retrieve specifically doing Living Single, and the connection came down that we needed to suffer weight. Here we are, 4 antithetic women, 4 antithetic assemblage types, and we needed to suffer weight. If anything, it angered maine and disheartened me, but it truly angered me. I said, 'We are what women look like. We're not going to suffer value for whoever's thought of what we're expected to look like.'"

9. During Titanic's last shooting time successful Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, tens of formed and unit members were unwittingly drugged erstwhile they ate chowder spiked with the mind-altering substance PCP. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet weren't connected acceptable that day, but Bill Paxton was among the poisoned. Director James Cameron told Q with Tom Power, "This is simply a 100 percent existent story. You haven't lived until you've been precocious connected PCP, which by the way, I bash not urge to anyone."

Everyone was rushed to the infirmary nether the archetypal interest that they might've eaten contaminated shellfish. James continued, "There was an exigency country with nary 1 successful it and, like, a nurse, and 85 unit members locomotion in. We don't cognize what's going on. And basically, idiosyncratic had taken a lb of PCP and dumped it into the chowder...We person a beauteous beardown suspicion who it was, though it was ne'er proven."

10. Clueless writer/director Amy Heckerling told Entertainment Weekly, "When I auditioned the kids, I'd ever inquire them for caller words. You know, slang and stuff. That's wherever I got 'going postal.' I loved calling idiosyncratic a 'Monet.' From acold away, they're fucking gorgeous, and up close, they're wholly different. 'Betty' was based connected Betty Rubble, who was precise pretty. And 'Barney' is like, How did he get her? 'As if' came from the lesbian community. Any outsider radical is going to make their ain connection — whether it's homosexual, Black, prisoners, oregon cabdrivers. You conscionable person to beryllium consenting to unfastened your ears and listen."

Alicia Silverstone added, "I didn't cognize what thing meant. I would person to accidental to Amy, 'What does 'As if' mean? She's mode hipper than I am. I mean, 'Surfing the crimson wave'?"

11. Cher's iconic yellowish plaid outfit from Clueless is often imitated, ne'er duplicated — but it astir didn't hap due to the fact that of Alicia's hair! Costume decorator Mona May told E! News, "She had to shine. She had to leap retired of the page, of the screen. We tried reddish and we tried blue, which is benignant of similar a much of a blonde color, and thing truly had the pop, and erstwhile I recovered the yellowish suit, the Dolce & Gabbana, and we enactment it connected successful the fitting, it was similar sunshine, similar a ray of prima conscionable entered the room, and that was what Amy [Heckerling] loved, and everybody successful the country reacted to it truthful incredibly due to the fact that it truly — you wouldn't deliberation of yellowish for a blonde girl… But, that truly was the cleanable happening to embody her successful that archetypal scene."

"It had to beryllium plaid. It's conscionable quintessential school. You're taking this precise overmuch of a Catholic schoolhouse azygous and present twisting it to precocious manner and past transforming it yet again done the eyes of the precocious schoolhouse girl," she said.

12. David Duchovny had to combat with immoderate X-Files directors to sphere Mulder's chill demeanor. He told Entertainment Weekly, "Sometimes I person to fight, due to the fact that [directors] say, 'Here's this dormant body. How travel Mulder's not much emotionally involved?' Everybody's aghast, and I'm detached, like, 'Look astatine those beauteous maggots.' Like successful the occurrence with the liver-eating compression feline who could elongate himself done chimneys, the manager wanted maine to beryllium huffy astir this horrible serial killer. I was like, 'No, this is an astonishing discovery! He's not morally culpable, due to the fact that he's genetically driven.' I justice nary one."

13. In 2015, Gillian Anderson told the Guardian that determination were "definitely periods" wherever she and her The X-Files costar David Duchovny "hated each other." She added, "Hate is excessively beardown a word. We didn't speech for agelong periods of time. It was intense, and we were some pains successful the arse for the different astatine assorted times... I'm not going to get into it. I'm not adjacent going to statesman to get into that. But we are person contiguous than we ever person been."

14. The X-Files Season 4 occurrence "Home" stirred truthful overmuch contention that it was banned. In this episode, the find of the assemblage of a babe with commencement defects leads Mulder and Scully to analyse a household who are suspected of incest. After it aired, the antagonistic feedback was truthful beardown that Fox pulled the occurrence and didn't broadcast it again for 3 years. They aboriginal paired it with an advertisement that said, "Only connected Halloween would we situation aerial an occurrence truthful arguable it's been banned from tv for 3 years. Consider yourself warned." It was the lone occurrence of the bid to beryllium fixed a TV-MA rating.

15. Writer/director John Singleton formed Morris Chestnut and Cuba Gooding Jr. successful Boyz n the Hood due to the fact that they were the archetypal actors to audition. He told Vice, "It's funny, due to the fact that erstwhile we were making it, I knew thing astir the process of casting. So the archetypal 2 radical who came successful to work for Tre were Morris Chestnut and past Cuba Gooding Jr. And past aft those 2 came in, I said I was going to lunch. We had 7 much radical to see! But I conscionable said, 'This guy's gonna beryllium Tre, and the cocoa guy's gonna beryllium Ricky. I'm gonna spell eat. Goodbye!'"

However, the relation of Doughboy was written for Ice Cube. The manager continued, "I couldn't spot anyone other playing that portion but Ice Cube. I knew him portion I was successful assemblage and moving connected The Arsenio Hall Show, wherever I was a directing intern. He was trying to get backstage to the greenish room, and they wouldn't fto him back. I said, 'Hey man, this is Ice Cube from NWA! Come on, man, I'll instrumentality attraction of you.' I took him backmost there, and I told him I had a publication I'd been penning for him, and helium gave maine his telephone number. I'd spot him astir town. He gave maine a thrust location 1 nighttime erstwhile I was stranded successful Hollywood... I said, 'Remember that publication I told you about? I wrote it.' Seven months aft that, we were moving connected the movie."

16. While filming the Friends occurrence "The One Where Ross Got High," Matt LeBlanc accidentally ate immoderate of David Schwimmer's regurgitated trifle (which was truly bananas and whipped cream). On The Graham Norton Show, Matt said, "There was excessively overmuch connected his plate. So helium starts to devour it all, and helium starts laughing, and we cut. We’re cutting, and helium spits it backmost connected his plate. I'm sitting close adjacent to him, and I'm looking the different way. I didn't spot him spit it backmost connected his plate. So, I instrumentality his plate...and I scrape immoderate connected my plate... We spell again, and present I'm eating it. We decorativeness the take. No 1 says thing to me."

17. While filming the occurrence "The One Where No One's Ready," Matt LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder. He told Jimmy Kimmel Live, "It was the 2nd scene, and I don't cognize if you've seen it. Chandler and I are warring implicit the large down chair. I'm downstage astatine the table, and helium comes successful the door. And we some look astatine each other, look astatine the chair, and neither 1 of america is sitting successful it, truthful we both, like, contention to the chair. And I person to conscionable measurement implicit the java array and onshore successful this big, huge, comfy chair. I don't adjacent deliberation it qualifies arsenic a stunt. And somehow, I ended up wholly upside down. And I was gonna onshore connected my caput betwixt the array and the chair, truthful I enactment my limb up to interruption my autumn and conscionable exploded my shoulder."

He added, "I did a fewer episodes successful a sling. And they wrote it into the amusement arsenic Joey was jumping connected the bed."

18. Initially, Courteney Cox auditioned for and got the portion of Rachel Green. However, realizing she wasn't close for the role, she convinced NBC to fto her play Monica Gellar instead, and Jennifer Aniston took implicit arsenic Rachel.

19. Lisa Kudrow was already playing Ursula connected Mad About You erstwhile she booked the relation of Phoebe Buffay connected Friends, truthful NBC approved enforcement shaper David Crane's thought to present Ursula arsenic Phoebe's duplicate sister. Ironically, Lisa's real-life sister, Helena, served arsenic her assemblage treble erstwhile they needed to sprout scenes with some Phoebe and Ursula.

20. On Friends: The Reunion, David Schwimmer revealed that helium had a crush connected his onscreen emotion interest, Jennifer Aniston. And then, Jennifer told David, "It was reciprocated."

She besides said, "I conscionable retrieve saying 1 clip to David, 'It's going to beryllium specified a bummer if the archetypal clip you and I really buss is going to beryllium connected nationalist television. Sure enough, archetypal clip we kissed was successful that java shop. So, we conscionable channeled each of our emotion and adoration for each different into Ross and Rachel."

21. Phoebe was primitively expected to extremity up with David, not Mike. When David went to Minsk, histrion Hank Azaria "didn't cognize that was the extremity of David." He told HuffPost, "The program ever was benignant of to bring him back. I think, honestly, what happened was Paul Rudd is truthful awesome that they benignant of recovered a groove with him, and [my character] became much of conscionable the grist for that mill. As opposed to the different mode around...It really did sting a small bit. Whatever portion of maine is David the subject feline who went to Minsk, which admittedly is astir apt a tiny portion of me, but that portion of maine wanted to extremity up with Phoebe. So I was benignant of bittersweet erstwhile I didn't...[Paul] surely has gone connected to beryllium that helium was comedically deserving of Phoebe's love."

22. The benignant aesthetic that Friends wardrobe decorator Debra McGuire created was really the other of the baggy apparel that were considered trendy astatine the time. She told Vogue India, "Oversized unstructured silhouettes were trending backmost then, but that was excessively unflattering for television. Also, I did not privation the characters to lone beryllium successful jeans each the time. New York was changing, and I wanted them to bespeak that."

23. Debra utilized immoderate of her idiosyncratic apparel to formal Rachel Green, specified arsenic her blistery pinkish faux fur overgarment and Missoni trousers. Rachel adjacent sported respective monochrome outfits from the stylist's covering line.

24. Friends enforcement shaper Marta Kauffman told the costume decorator that the characters should beryllium successful jeans due to the fact that they were hanging retired successful New York, but she disagreed and decided to spell for looks that were aspirational instead. She told High Snobiety, "It was each astir texture and colour and staying existent to a New York palette. It was precise black, white, gray, with hits of color."

Debra assigned each of the main characters their ain palette. The women were divided into colors, and the men were divided into textures. She told the Guardian, "Monica was black, gray, white, burgundy; Rachel was blues and greens... Ross was tweedy, Chandler had a batch of vintage and racing stripe shirts, Joey had leather jackets, past aboriginal sweaters and chenille. Phoebe was successful patterns."

25. The Matrix accumulation decorator Simon Whiteley told CNET, "I similar to archer everybody that The Matrix's codification is made retired of Japanese sushi recipes. Without that code, determination is nary Matrix." He aboriginal told Wired, "The Wachowskis didn't consciousness similar the plan was old-fashioned and accepted enough. They wanted thing that was much Japanese, much manga. They asked maine if I'd similar to person a spell moving astatine the code, chiefly due to the fact that my woman is Japanese, and she could assistance maine enactment retired the characters and springiness maine penetration into which characters were bully and which weren't." At home, helium went done "stacks of Japanese cookbooks" until helium recovered the cleanable 1 to basal his codification on.

He continued, "I've been benignant of not wanting to archer anyone what the look publication is, partially due to the fact that that's the past spot of magic... It's not really a book. It's a magazine, but it's called a book. It's thing astir Japanese radical would've heard of oregon person connected their bookshelf."

26. Per Yahoo, successful the archetypal Ghost script, Bruce Joel Rubin wrote Molly arsenic a wood sculptor, not a potter. When manager Jerry Zucker expressed concerns that it mightiness look cliché, Bruce got the thought to marque her bash pottery erstwhile helium saw a The Naked Gun dependable exertion speechmaking a pottery magazine. Demi Moore took a fewer pottery lessons up of filming her celebrated country with Patrick Swayze, but helium didn't cognize thing astir pottery until rehearsals. During filming, pro potters started the pots that Demi finished connected camera, but things inactive got messy. The iconic infinitesimal erstwhile Patrick joins her astatine the instrumentality and her cookware collapses was wholly unplanned. In a DVD featurette, Bruce said, "Nobody expected [the pot] to fall. Demi recovered truthful quickly… She wasn't angry, she wasn't disappointed. In a way, the full quality of their narration was shown successful that moment."

27. Cameron Diaz made her onscreen debut successful The Mask aft casting manager Fern Champion recovered her done her modeling agent, who worked successful the aforesaid gathering arsenic Fern. Director Chuck Russell told Variety, “[Cameron] was the lone idiosyncratic for the part, arsenic acold arsenic I was concerned, aft her archetypal reading. And past I saw the chemistry with her and Jim [Carrey]. Eight callbacks later, including improvs with Jim, I yet convinced producers."

28. Discussing the "most hard celebrity" she's worked with connected Watch What Happens Live successful 2016, Busy Philipps said, "James Franco and I truly didn't get on erstwhile we were connected Freaks and Geeks. We were 19, and we really, truly disliked each other. It's well-documented. He shoved maine to the crushed once. It was truly brutal... We're friends present and we truly similar each different now, arsenic adults, but arsenic kids, we did not get along."

29. Freaks and Geeks histrion Busy Philipps told Vanity Fair, "Paul [Feig] and Judd [Apatow] awkwardly tried to speech to Linda [Cardellini] and maine astir how, present that we're connected a TV show, we shouldn't deliberation astir losing weight, which had ne'er adjacent occurred to me. They were like, 'Don’t get brainsick present — don't deliberation you person to beryllium an histrion that's truly skinny.' And I was speechmaking things successful the property astir however we were the anti-Dawson's Creek. There was 1 punctuation I retrieve precise clearly, like, 'You won't find immoderate beauteous radical connected Freaks and Geeks.' That was absorbing arsenic a 19-year-old miss to read. We were not modular packaging."

Linda added, "They didn't privation america to look similar radical successful different shows — which you don't truly cognize however to take. It was comforting connected 1 hand, and not truthful overmuch connected the other."

30. The Leonardo DiCaprio-led Romeo + Juliet was filmed successful Mexico, but the accumulation could've been a movie itself. Director Baz Luhrmann told Arts Beat LA, "Look, archetypal fto maine accidental I would not swap a time that I spent successful Mexico for thing successful the world. It was the astir adventurous time. Having said that, it is existent we were determination months longer than we needed to be. We had hurricanes that wiped retired the set. We each got sick. Shooting unopen down for a week portion I had a somesthesia of 110. The hairsbreadth and constitution person, Aldo Signoretti, who worked with [director Federico] Fellini, was kidnapped. We paid $US300 to get him back. I thought alternatively a bargain."

He continued, "I was not there; helium was kidnapped. The bandidos rang up and said, 'For $US300, you tin person him back.' So Maurizio [Silvi, the constitution artist], who is astir this high, goes down clutching the wealth to extracurricular the hotel, holds it up, chucks them the bag, and they threw him retired of the car and broke his leg. So we had adventures. It was an unthinkable quest. It wasn't a locomotion successful the park, and the information that the kids did what they did and enactment up with what they did was amazing."

"The crushed the movie is similar it is, is that we embraced everything successful the film. For example, Mercutio dies successful that storm. Well, that was the hurricane that came and blew our sets away. The wide shots, which you could ne'er get, I asked the guys if the cameras could grip it – we got retired and did the wides and caught the storms, past we came backmost and did the close-ups with upwind machines. For a fund of ours, which is betwixt $15–17 million, you can't execute that abbreviated of monolithic CGIs," helium said.

31. In the archetypal Free Willy script, Jesse was rather different. Producer Lauren Shuler-Donner told Entertainment Weekly, "The archetypal publication was excessively sweet, excessively mushy, excessively formulaic. The small lad was mute and lived with nuns!"

32. The chewing baccy successful The Sandlot was "actually shredded beef jerky and achromatic licorice." Actor Grant Gelt told The Arrow, "They didn't archer america astir the licorice, which, looking back, I deliberation was intended to really marque america consciousness nauseous. David [Mickey Evans, the director] wanted to seizure that contiguous crisp absorption of, 'Holy shit, this is terrible. What were we thinking?' After a summertime of David and the unit having to enactment up with us, I deliberation that nighttime was a bully mode for them to get revenge." Prop maestro Terry Haskell added, "That was a existent baccy brand, and yep, the achromatic jerky and licorice was me. I perfectly wanted them to consciousness revolted."

33. In The Truman Show, Truman's iconic catchphrase (and the last enactment of the movie) — "Good morning! And successful lawsuit I don't spot you, bully afternoon, bully evening, and bully night" — was the brainchild of Jim Carrey. Writer Andrew Niccol told The Hollywood Reporter, "I deliberation it was primitively an ad-lib by Jim, but yes, the duplicitous Christof seized connected it and directed the extras successful Truman's beingness to unreal to beryllium amused... For a while, I deliberation the past enactment was, 'You ne'er had a camera successful my head.'"

34. On The Howard Stern Show, Seinfeld histrion Jason Alexander revealed that Danny DeVito was offered the relation of George Costanza. Theorizing wherefore helium turned it down, Jason said, "His career, erstwhile we started Seinfeld, would've been astatine its apex. So, helium astir apt didn't wanna bash a sidekick role."

35. Jason besides said that Chris Rock turned down the relation of George. He said, "Why Chris wouldn't bash it, I don't know. Maybe it didn't get to an connection stage. I don't know."

36. Heidi Swedberg's Seinfeld character, Susan, was killed disconnected due to the fact that the remainder of the formed thought she was "impossible" to play disconnected of. On the Howard Stern Show, Jason Alexander said, "Her instincts for doing a scene, wherever the drama was, and excavation were ever misfiring... Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] really said, 'Don't you privation to conscionable termination her?' And Larry [David] went, 'Ka-bang!'"

However, Jason aboriginal apologized for however helium told that story, tweeting, "OK, folks, I consciousness officially awful. The impetus for telling this communicative was that Howard said, 'Julia Louis-Dreyfus told maine you each wanted to termination her.' So I told the communicative to effort and clarify that nary 1 wanted to termination Heidi... [She] was generous and gracious, and I americium truthful huffy astatine myself for retelling this communicative successful immoderate mode that would diminish her. If I had had much maturity oregon much information successful my ain work, I surely would person taken her query and perchance tried to set the scenes with her. She surely offered. But, I didn't person that maturity oregon security."

37. Lawrence Tierney, who played Elaine's begetter connected 1 episode, was ne'er brought backmost due to the fact that the remainder of the formed recovered him intimidating and scary. In a Season 2 DVD extra, Julia Louis-Dreyfus said, "It's excessively atrocious helium was truthful cuckoo due to the fact that I'm definite helium would've been backmost otherwise." Jason Alexander said, "There was each crushed successful the satellite to person that beryllium an ongoing quality due to the fact that determination was conscionable truthful overmuch hostility betwixt him and each different character. It was brilliant."

However, the formed went connected to picture an incidental wherever Lawrence allegedly stole 1 of Jerry's knives from the acceptable and hid it successful his jacket. After Jerry Seinfeld called him retired connected it, Lawrence tried to marque a joke, past pulled the weapon out, made the Psycho sound, and precocious connected Jerry a bit. Jason added, "Lawrence Tierney, I think, frightened the surviving crap retired of each of us."

38. The pb quality successful Sister Act was primitively named Terri, but screenwriter Paul Rudnick told the New Yorker, "Whoopi Goldberg was abruptly anxious to play the portion of Terri, though she asked that the character's sanction beryllium changed to Deloris, because, I was told, she’d ever wanted to play idiosyncratic named Deloris."

39. According to Screen Rant, during the tallness of his nonrecreational rivalry with Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger work the unspeakable publication for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, past helium dispersed a rumor astir having "tremendous interest" successful it, which helium knew would punctual Sylvester to judge the pb role. Sylvester described the movie arsenic "one of the worst films successful the full star system, including alien productions we've ne'er seen." It earned him his 4th Razzie for Worst Actor.

40. Per Metro, successful the Home Alone country wherever Marv walks barefoot done the snow, Daniel Stern wore fake feet due to the fact that of the cold. He told ComicBook.com, "I bash get asked a lot, 'Was that a existent tarantula connected your face? What's Joe Pesci like? Did it wounded erstwhile you got deed successful the look with the iron?’' That one, I conjecture getting deed successful the face, 'Did it wounded erstwhile you got deed successful the look with the bricks?' I deliberation possibly that one. When radical started asking maine that, I went, 'You cognize it's fake, right? There's a prop department. I didn't get deed successful the look with bricks.' They’re like, 'Oh.' The believability of it is wonderful, but it did interest maine to a constituent erstwhile that movie archetypal came retired actually, that I started teaching a people successful media literacy."

41. After surviving ample disconnected the occurrence of "Parents Just Don't Understand," Will Smith ended up broke erstwhile his adjacent medium flopped. He besides didn't wage his taxes, truthful the IRS took a batch of his costly cars and such. However, his then-girlfriend encouraged him to web astatine The Arsenio Hall Show, wherever helium met Benny Medina, who pitched him the thought for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

42. At a location party, Quincy Jones had Will bash an impromptu audition for the apical NBC execs, which impressed the onlookers truthful overmuch that the declaration for him to prima connected the amusement was drawn up that night. In a YouTube video, Will said, "We took a picture, and we signed the basal woody for Fresh Prince, and 3 months later, we were shooting the pilot, and that’s the communicative of however I became the Prince of Bel-Air."

43. In his memoir Will, Will Smith revealed that helium asked retired Karyn Parsons, who played his relative connected Fresh Prince. However, she rejected him. He wrote, "[Karyn] was astute capable to archer maine 'hell no' erstwhile I tried to explicate that we were not truly cousins, truthful it would beryllium good if we dated. Telling her, 'I curse it won't messiness up our moving relationship.' She knew amended than that — bully call, K.P."

44. Every clip Jazz was thrown retired of the Banks' house, they utilized the nonstop aforesaid footage. In his memoir, Will Smith wrote, "The interior of the Bel-Air mansion and the exterior are 2 antithetic locations, and we lone had a one-day sprout astatine the exterior location. So, we had to usage the aforesaid changeable of [DJ Jazzy] Jeff being thrown retired implicit and over. Therefore, immoderate clip you spot Jeff participate with the brown-and-white Aztec patterned shirt, you cognize that he'll beryllium thrown retired successful that scene."

45. In Pretty Woman, the country wherever Edward closes the jewelry container connected Vivian's manus was really an unscripted prank connected Julia Roberts! Director Gary Marshall told DGA Quarterly Magazine, "This was not really a country written into the movie — alternatively a prank I played connected Julia with Richard's help. Why, you whitethorn ask, would I fool astir erstwhile 'time is money?' The crushed is simple: portion making a movie determination are, judge it oregon not, 'rotten days,' 'cranky days,' and 'stupid, absurd days.' Days erstwhile the actors are sluggish from late-night parties and premieres, oregon from shooting excessively galore days successful a row. And sometimes the unit is bushed from excessively hot, excessively cold, excessively rainy oregon excessively galore agelong days. I find the solution to this occupation is to bash pranks and jokes."

He continued, "Other directors usage yelling oregon pep talks oregon firing radical to shingle up a shoot. My sister Penny sometimes uses begging, á la, 'Please, delight everybody, enactment better. I person a stomachache and a headache, and I wanna wrapper and spell home.' Kidding astir works champion for me. For instance, during Julia's bubble bath country successful Pretty Woman erstwhile she went nether the soapy h2o for a fewer moments, Richard Gere, myself, and the full unit disappeared and were gone erstwhile she came up. It was conscionable her successful a tub connected a shade ship. And I besides started a rumor during that country that I had enactment goldfish successful the bathtub, and everybody, including Julia, was looking for the fish."

46. Franck, the eccentric wedding planner successful Father of the Bride, was reportedly inspired by Kevin Lee, a personage wedding and lawsuit planner who's worked with clients specified arsenic Kim Kardashian, Nic Cage, and Jennifer Aniston. He told The Daily Dish that a shaper informed him of the inspiration. He said, "Oh yeah, perfectly it was me! I said, 'Wow.' I was wholly shocked erstwhile helium told maine that...[Martin Short] captured my quality truthful well, and I was overwhelmed. Officially, I americium the Franck."

47. The Pasadena location that was utilized for the exterior shots successful Father of the Bride became a real-life wedding venue erstwhile the owners, Sarah Bradley and Darrell Spence, utilized it to big their wedding reception. They purchased the location successful 1999 and tied the knot a small nether a twelvemonth later. Sarah told HGTV, "When I gave [the lawsuit planner] our address, she said, 'Oh, you're adjacent the Father of the Bride house.' I said, 'No, we are the Father of the Bride house.'" She said the excited planner shouted, "I'm going to beryllium Franck!"

Additionally, fans emotion to sojourn the location — and immoderate adjacent suggest there. Once, connected the mode location from a locomotion with their 2 kids, the mates decided to bent backmost arsenic a connection unfolded. Sarah said, "I saw the feline connected 1 genu and told Darrell, 'We can't spell implicit determination with a screaming child.' They'll beryllium like, 'Forget it!'"

48. Friends costars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow unintentionally wore the aforesaid reddish Moschino overgarment successful 2 of their astir iconic '90s movie roles. Courteney wore it during the climax of Scream, and Lisa wore it during Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion. Scream costume decorator Cynthia Bergstrom told Nylon, "It was comic due to the fact that Mona and I were astatine the aforesaid clip astatine [Neiman Marcus] successful Beverly Hills, and we looked astatine that Moschino, and we some went for it. She enactment the overgarment with a antithetic skirt, and I bought it arsenic a suit and kept it together. But it was truly comic erstwhile we were shopping. I'd look implicit and spot what she had successful her arms, and she'd look and spot what I had. It was truthful overmuch fun."

49. In Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, the triangular awesome connected Romy's bluish formal is simply a hidden Star Trek reference. Costume decorator Mona May told Nylon she wanted a "slick" and "futuristic" look, truthful she added the Star Fleet insignia-esque symbol. She said, "I didn't privation to marque it excessively plain oregon enactment stars each implicit it oregon thing weird, truthful it was conscionable enough."

50. When Felicity Porter infamously chopped her hairsbreadth abbreviated successful Felicity Season 2, the stylist started Keri Russell's haircut for real. The histrion aboriginal went to a existent salon to person it finished. At the 2018 ATX TV Festival, Keri said, "The mode it each wholly went down was they were wrapping up the archetypal season…and the hairsbreadth radical were putting distant everything they had into boxes, and determination was a small boy's wig. We enactment it connected maine astatine similar 2 successful the greeting arsenic a joke…and we took a Polaroid, and implicit the summer, we thought it'd beryllium truly comic to nonstop to J.J. [Abrams] and Matt [Reeves] and say, 'I chopped my hairsbreadth — anticipation you similar it.' Totally arsenic a joke..."

She continued, "I was with my girlfriends astatine immoderate lake, and I got this telephone call…and [J.J.] said, 'Hey, we got your picture.' No laughing. No nothing. 'Would you truly chopped your hair?' And I was like, 'I guess?' ... We changeable that country astatine similar 4 a.m. connected a Friday. And the hairsbreadth miss actually...it's successful dilatory motion, similar her cutting my hair, sniping it. And past a fewer hours later, I went to a hairsbreadth salon, and idiosyncratic chopped the remainder of it off."

51. Interview with the Vampire writer Anne Rice was initially truthful opposed to Tom Cruise's casting arsenic Lestat de Lioncourt that she attended a protestation against him astatine a bookstore. She told Esquire, "I didn't talk retired successful immoderate organized oregon planned way. These radical person stood successful enactment for maine 3 and 4 hours. They are my readers, and they hatred this. I was carried on by my readers. I didn't commencement the full happening astatine all."

However, aft the movie came out, she praised him successful an open letter, writing, "From the infinitesimal helium appeared, Tom was Lestat for me. He has the immense carnal and motivation presence; helium was defiant and yet ne'er without conscience; helium was beauteous beyond statement yet compelled to bash cruel things. The sheer quality of Tom was dazzling, but the polish of his acting, his flawless plunge into the Lestat persona, his quality to talk alternatively boldly poetic lines, and talk them with seeming easiness and condemnation were exhilarating and uplifting. The feline is great. I'm nary bully astatine modesty. I similar to judge Tom's Lestat volition beryllium remembered the mode Olivier's Hamlet is remembered. Others whitethorn play the relation immoderate time but nary 1 volition ever hide Tom's mentation of it."

52. Dolly Parton coproduced Buffy the Vampire Slayer done Sandollar Productions, the accumulation institution she cofounded — and she was really "very involved" with the series! She told Business Insider, "A batch of my enactment was done conscionable conversing backmost and distant with the concern radical there. And I'd spell retired for meetings present and then."

Because she lived successful Nashville, she wasn't connected acceptable precise often and didn't conscionable the cast, but she sent them gifts. She said, "I didn't get to conscionable each of the people, but I wanted them to cognize that I was determination for them, I was arrogant of them, and they were doing a large job... I was precise excited astir the show. That small amusement did great."

53. Ryan Reynolds was reportedly offered the relation of Xander Harris connected Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but helium declined. He told the Star, "I emotion that show, and I loved Joss Whedon, the creator of the show, but my biggest interest was that I didn't privation to play a feline successful precocious school. I had conscionable travel retired of precocious school, and it was fucking awful."

54. The relation of Xander yet went to Nicholas Brendon. When the quality was divided into 2 radical successful Season 3, Nicholas's duplicate brother, Kelly Donovan, guest-starred arsenic his different half. Nicholas did astir of the acting and speaking for some roles, but Kelly acted arsenic a body double. He besides had a fewer lines erstwhile some halves of Xander needed to talk straight to each other.

55. Spike wasn't meant to beryllium Buffy's emotion interest, and James Marsters's popularity with the assemblage allegedly angered bid creator Joss Whedeon truthful overmuch that helium pushed the histrion into a wall. James told the podcast Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, "In Joss's world, evil is not cool, and I truly respect him for that. Vampire were conscionable a metaphor for the challenges that you get implicit successful your adolescence. So vampires are expected to beryllium overcome, and helium got talked into 1 sexy vampire that's not gonna beryllium killed off. That was Angel. And I was expected to travel successful and get killed off. And the assemblage instantly reacted to maine successful a mode that was gonna marque it precise hard to termination maine off. And the web was telling him, 'Oh my God, support this feline successful the show' and each of that. I was fundamentally ruining his show."

He continued, "But the happening is that that [decision] is gonna alteration the amusement from being astir a teen overcoming adolescence into a amusement wherever those problems are kinda sexy, aren't they? All this psychotic...I was sidesplitting radical each the time! I was shredding them! And the assemblage was going, 'Oh, we privation much of that,' and Joss is like, 'No, no, the constituent is that you flooded the evil! That's the point.' So, if I was successful his shoes, I would've killed maine off. I wouldn't person pushed maine against the wall. I conscionable would've killed him disconnected immediately, saying, 'I cognize I told you 5 episodes. We'll wage you for five, but you're dormant aft two, sorry.'"

"He conscionable got frustrated and figured it out, but determination was that time erstwhile helium pushed maine up against the wall. I don't retrieve however it started. I conscionable person this representation of him, and he's successful my face. He goes, 'I don't attraction however fashionable you are, kid. You are dead. You are dead. You are dead. You got me?' ...I conscionable said, 'It's your football, dude. You gotta bash what you wanna do,'" James said.

56. Playing Spike did superior harm to James's hair. The statement connected the vessel of bleach helium utilized to get Spike's signature platinum shadiness warned that it should lone beryllium utilized each six weeks, but helium "did it each 8 days, due to the fact that a vampire is dead, truthful your hairsbreadth doesn't grow, truthful you can't person roots." In 2016, helium told the Minnesota Star Tribune, "They told maine repeatedly my hairsbreadth would autumn retired oregon alternatively they were not definite I would person hairsbreadth by the end... The constitution section was truly particular: There tin ne'er beryllium roots successful your hair. So for 7 years, we did it each episode. I agreed to bleaching erstwhile I thought I was going to dice successful 5 episodes. I don't cognize if I would person agreed to it for 7 years."

57. Reese Witherspoon helped rewrite parts of the Cruel Intentions script. Her costar (and fellow astatine the clip of filming) Ryan Philippe told Entertainment Weekly, "She loved the movie for me, but it wasn't a large portion astatine the clip for her. She helped Roger [Kumble, the writer/director] crook it into one." Roger said, "It's true, she came and sat with maine for a week, and we worked connected the dialog together. Annette was the quality astir removed from me. There's nary mode the movie would person its occurrence if it weren't for [Reese's] endowment arsenic a writer."

Reese added, "I retrieve uncovering Annette excessively demure and excessively overmuch of a pistillate influenced by a guy's manipulations. I was starting what I conjecture became my bigger ngo successful beingness — of questioning wherefore women were written definite ways connected film."

58. In the Forrest Gump country wherever the protagonist gives a code astatine an anti-Vietnam protest, you can't perceive what Tom Hanks is saying. Screenwriter Eric Roth told Yahoo Entertainment, "[Director Robert Zemeckis] ne'er liked the code I had Forrest Gump springiness erstwhile helium was fixed the microphone astatine that event. He said, 'We request thing that's mode funnier and mode much important.' Funnier I tried, and I adjacent enlisted immoderate comedians. I asked Billy Crystal to assistance me, I asked Robin [Williams], [some] different people. And thing ever resonated. And past I tried to constitute immoderate large glorious code astir patriotism and Vietnam. It was a truly fantastic American speech. And that didn't rather work. So Bob came up with the solution of helium starts speaking, and they propulsion the plug."

59. Carrie Fisher and George Lucas had concealed cameos successful Hook! According to The Wrap, filmmakers confirmed they appeared arsenic a mates connected the span that Tinker Bell enchants.

60. According to Digital Spy, She's All That was filmed successful the aforesaid precocious schoolhouse arsenic Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Torrance High School, which is successful California). There's different transportation betwixt the 2 — Buffy prima Sarah Michelle Gellar made a cameo successful She's All That! And of course, she went connected to wed the pb of the movie, Freddie Prinze Jr.

61. Topanga Lawrence was lone supposed to beryllium connected 1 occurrence of Boy Meets World, but Danielle Fishel "came successful and killed it, and past it changed the full show." At '90s Con 2022, Danielle said, "Yeah, it was lone expected to be, I think, 1 occurrence — perchance a recurring — and past she fundamentally became the remainder of the show."

62. When Topanga spontaneously hacked disconnected her hairsbreadth successful Season 4, Danielle was "thrilled" to chopped it herself. On a 2024 occurrence of Pod Meets World, she said, "I had wanted to bash it each summer. The crushed we did the occurrence is due to the fact that I had called [series creator Michael Jacobs] the opening of summertime and said, 'I wanna chopped my hair. Can I chopped it?' And helium said, ‘At slightest fto maine constitute an occurrence for it.’ So, I had to hold each summer. So, by the clip we got to it, I had been acceptable to chopped my hairsbreadth for months."

During filming, she faked the chopped respective times to practice, with manager Jeff McCracken shouting, "Stop!" Danielle continued, "I retrieve Michael coming retired and going, 'Show maine wherever you're gonna cut. Show me. Show maine where.' … Because helium did not privation it to beryllium excessively short. And helium knew I had power due to the fact that I was gonna beryllium the 1 with the scissors. So, helium wanted to know. I wanted it a small shorter. I knew helium wanted it a small longer. And so, yes, it was a precise aggravated day."

63. On their associated podcast Pod Meets World, Danielle told her Boy Meets World costar Rider Strong that she'd had a crush connected him. She said, "I deliberation it started possibly aboriginal successful Season 1 and decidedly done Season 2."

64. In Season 6, Mr. Feeny joined Dean Bolander, who was played by William Daniels's real-life wife, Bonnie Bartlett Daniels. They worked unneurotic often passim their careers. In 2019, Bonnie told Today, "We worked for truthful agelong connected St. Elsewhere due to the fact that we played antheral and woman connected that, and won Emmys and each kinds of worldly … And we had worked unneurotic erstwhile we were kids. We've been unneurotic for 68 years, truthful we've worked a batch together."

65. In Thelma & Louise, Geena Davis's real-life ex-boyfriend, Chris McDonald, played her onscreen hubby connected her recommendation. According to WLIW, she told manager Ridley Scott that Chris was "the funniest feline successful the world." His wit was connected afloat show during his audition, and it carried into production. While filming a country wherever helium walks to the car, Chris accidentally tripped, but his comedic timing was truthful cleanable that the changeable stayed successful the last cut.

66. In Addams Family Values, Fester is importantly shorter than Gomez, but successful existent life, histrion Christopher Lloyd is lone an inch shorter than Raúl Juliá. Christopher told BuzzFeed, "I ever had my knees bent to marque maine look shorter and much squat. It worked retired good due to the fact that it gave maine benignant of a comic walk."

67. Macaulay Culkin's relation successful My Girl was primitively smaller. Director Howard Zieff told Entertainment Weekly, "Mack and Anna [Chlumsky] were conscionable 2 kids moving unneurotic connected a movie. Mack didn't person the cognition 'I'm a prima and you're not.’' We added 2 oregon 3 much scenes with him due to the fact that arsenic helium began to enactment with her, determination was terrific synergy."

68. Robin Williams improvised galore of his lines arsenic the Genie successful Aladdin. In a Reddit AMA, helium said, "Initially I was conscionable doing the scripted lines and I asked 'Do you caput if I effort something?' and past 18 hours of signaling later, they had the genie. I conscionable started playing, and they said 'just spell with it, spell with it, spell with it.' So I improvised the character. I deliberation that successful the end, determination were thing similar 40 antithetic voices that I did for that role."

69. According to Screen Rant, CGI was lone utilized for six minutes of Jurassic Park. Most of the dinosaurs were created utilizing applicable effects, specified arsenic puppets and animatronics. For example, the sick triceratops that Ellie Sattler interacts intimately with is simply a gigantic puppet with hand-sculpted tegument and power rods beneath its flanks.

70. Per Yahoo, the effects successful Death Becomes Her were a groundbreaking premix of machine graphics and applicable effects. Here's an example: for Meryl Streep's caput rotation scene, she filmed the country facing backwards connected set. Later, astatine the Industrial Light and Magic studio, she wore a bluish bodysuit and sat successful a seat portion performing with lone her head. The 2 shots were combined successful post-production.

Visual effects creation manager Doug Chiang told Yahoo, "A batch of those things progressive shooting elements aft the fact, and choreographing it precise cautiously truthful that her expressions matched her assemblage poses. And it was a precise delicate thing. In hindsight, it's very, precise complex, whereas contiguous we would astir apt bash astir of that visually. But backmost then, it was inactive old-school, due to the fact that we were blending accepted techniques with the caller tools that we had successful machine graphics."

71. HBO archetypal offered the relation of Carrie Bradshaw successful Sex and the City to Dana Delany, but she turned it down for fearfulness of being pigeonholed due to the fact that she "had done a movie called Live Nude Girls with Kim Cattrall that was somewhat similar." She told the LA Times, "It was precise overmuch successful the aboriginal stages, and I had conscionable done Nude Girls and Exit to Eden, and I conscionable said to Darren [Starr], 'I cannot bash a amusement with 'sex' successful the title.'"

Then the workplace had a declaration with Lisa Edelstein. She told Access Hollywood, "I was either going to bash it oregon not. It each depended connected whether [Sarah Jessica Parker] said yes. My declaration was complete. I was waiting." After losing retired connected the role, she "didn't truly watch" the bid due to the fact that it was "too painful."

72. The iconic reddish Baywatch swimsuits were designed not by a wardrobe decorator but by a contention swimwear company. Series co-creator Gregory J. Bonann told Yahoo Sports, "TYR designed the suit per my specs. [It] had to look bully connected the women, but had to besides beryllium functional successful the water. The now-famous 'slo-mo' shooting ... required bully enactment connected the apical and minimal creep successful the back. ... All lifeguards, not astir all, but all lifeguards, travel from a competitory swimming background. That means that each of these women grew up successful one-piece swimsuits, not bikinis."

He continued, "The evident extremity was to replicate, arsenic intimately arsenic possible, what the existent lifeguard women wear. When successful the water, successful large surf, with aggregate victims grabbing onto your hair, suit, arms, legs, etc., they could — and bash — easy rip disconnected your swimsuit if they are hopeless enough. A two-piece for women would beryllium conscionable excessively risky to deterioration successful the h2o with a unfortunate grabbing, scratching, kicking, and screaming."

73. Richard E. Grant didn't privation to beryllium successful the Spice Girls movie, Spice World, but his girl made him. He told Vulture, "When my girl was 9, I got offered the portion successful Spice World, and she said I had to bash it. 'But my acting credibility…' And she'd say, 'No, no, you person to. You person to due to the fact that I privation to conscionable them.' So I did, and she was truthful thrilled. I had schoolhouse playground credibility for astir 2 semesters, and then, of course, you dip into the different broadside erstwhile they go, 'No, I was ne'er a Spice Girls fan!' Now that procreation has each travel backmost astir again going, 'Yeah, we emotion the Spice Girls!'"

He continued, "In essence, a akin happening happened erstwhile I got called to beryllium successful 1 occurrence of Girls. My girl virtually levitated. She's a originative penning grade student, and she said, 'You person nary thought what it would mean if I could conscionable oregon beryllium successful the aforesaid country oregon respire the aforesaid aerial arsenic Lena Dunham.' I consciousness arsenic a begetter if I've done thing close astatine all, I've done some the Spice Girls movie and Girls."

74. Wilson Cruz's My So-Called Life character, Rickie Vasquez, was important to him arsenic a young cheery man. In 2019, helium told Variety, " I went successful [to the audition] benignant of dressed similar Rickie. I enactment connected these agleam reddish Levi's and a rainbow shirt. I sprayed my hairsbreadth to the hilt. I enactment connected eyeliner. When I got there, determination were 3 oregon 4 guys going for the aforesaid part, but they were wearing khakis and a polo. I thought, 'Boy, did you guys miss the people connected this one.' So erstwhile I walked successful and met with [casting director] Mary Goldberg, it felt truly idiosyncratic to me."

"We went done the scene. There wasn't a batch successful the pilot, due to the fact that I didn't accidental a lot. Mary looked astatine maine like, 'Thank you.' I started to good up. I walked to the doorway to leave, not knowing if I was going to travel backmost oregon not. I turned astir and said to her, 'Before I go, delight bash maine a favour and archer Winnie Holzman, this would person meant truthful overmuch to maine erstwhile I was 16 years aged to spot this feline connected TV,'" helium said.

And landing the relation of Rickie is what spurred Wilson to travel out. He told Variety, "My cause sent maine the script, and she didn’t needfully cognize that I was gay. I work it, and I had to determine whether oregon not I wanted to disclose to her. I waited. I had made a woody with myself that I would travel retired if the bid went. I wanted radical to cognize that I, arsenic a cheery antheral — a cheery lad astatine the clip — truly enactment my stamp of support to what we were doing. So that's erstwhile I told my parents, and that's erstwhile I was kicked out... I lived connected friends' couches and successful my car until we started filming the series. I retrieve we were with Winnie connected our mode to something, and I told her what had happened with my dad. Months later, I get this publication wherever Rickie goes done a precise akin thing. When I look backmost connected that full experience, I deliberation of my fictional satellite and my world converging. It was cathartic."

75. You've Got Mail faced a communal occupation we've each apt encountered connected societal media — the username they wanted was already taken. For ineligible reasons, they had to inquire the existent pistillate down the surface sanction Shopgirl to fto them person it. Writer/director Nora Ephron told E! News, "She really worked astatine an autobody shop."

76. A League of Their Own shaper Robert Greenhut told ESPN, "The casting took forever. We were trying to get actresses who really played baseball, truthful that narrowed down the tract close away. In immoderate cases, it wasn't that important due to the fact that possibly their scenes didn't necessitate that overmuch playing. But for others, they truly had to show immoderate benignant of diversion prowess. So we each rapidly learned however hard it is to propulsion from archetypal basal to 3rd to get idiosyncratic out. It looks truthful casual erstwhile you spot it connected television."

However, Madonna didn't person immoderate shot acquisition anterior to landing the relation of Mae Mordabito. According to Sports Illustrated, she spent a summertime successful Chicago learning the sport.

77. Initially, Steve Urkel was expected to beryllium a one-off quality connected Family Matters. Series creator Michael Warren adjacent named him aft a real-life person arsenic a joke. However, Urkel accrued ratings, truthful accumulation mandated that helium look successful each episode. He helped marque the amusement a monolithic hit. Michael told the LA Times, "I deliberation the lone idiosyncratic who is not a instrumentality of Family Matters is my person Steve Urkel. It has terribly affected his life."

78. Groundhog Day is famously acceptable successful Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, but it was really filmed successful Woodstock, Illinois. Director Harold Ramis told Collider, "We didn't usage Punxsutawney for the movie due to the fact that Punxsutawney itself didn't person a existent municipality halfway that looked precise bully connected camera, truthful we wanted a municipality that looked perfect, truthful the municipality you'll spot is Woodstock, IL. We scouted each of confederate Wisconsin and bluish Illinois looking for the cleanable town, and we pulled into Woodstock conscionable the mode the van pulls into municipality successful the movie. It was the past municipality we saw, and we looked astatine this small municipality quadrate and thought, 'Aw, this is perfect.'" He besides said that the radical of Punxsutawney "were precise jealous that the movie wasn't changeable successful Punxsutawney, but erstwhile they saw Woodstock, they thought it looked amended than their town."

79. According to Screen Rant, 1 of the 2 animatronic cats utilized for Thackery Binx successful Hocus Pocus was reused arsenic Salem Saberhagen successful Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Nick Bakay, who voiced Salem, told Vanity Fair, "ABC did not emotion the animatronic cat. And I get it: it's not similar it was going to fool anyone. But I deliberation that it was portion of the charm of the show—quaint, old-school, applicable magic and weird feline puppets. And for immoderate reason, it benignant of worked."

80. Sabrina the Teenage Witch ne'er would've made it disconnected the crushed without Melissa Joan Hart's mom, Paula Hart. In 2016, Melissa told Marie Claire, "I produced the movie with my ma archetypal and past we spun it disconnected for the series, truthful I was the brag and the star, which was a bully spot to be. Not conscionable an histrion for prosecute but a dependable successful the accumulation arsenic well. My ma doesn't get astir capable recognition for her occupation arsenic the pistillate spearheading the show. She is the 1 who was handed the Archie Comic publication connected a playground astatine my sister's schoolhouse successful Manhattan and sold it to Viacom arsenic a Showtime movie. She ever knew it would marque an unthinkable series, but nary 1 would perceive until she chopped unneurotic a trailer from the movie and pitched it to each 4 large networks astatine the time."

"She got 3 offers successful the country for the series, and we decided ABC was the close location due to the fact that we were fans of the TGIF lineup and felt it was the close spot for our show. But adjacent erstwhile the amusement was connected the air, the web didn't truly enactment it the archetypal season. They were counting connected Clueless the amusement to beryllium the large hit; we were conscionable the small amusement that would travel that. But we ended up being the instrumentality favourite and held our spot connected that web (even forcing Everybody Loves Raymond to determination to a antithetic nighttime of the week) for 4 years until we moved to WB for the last 3 seasons," she said.

81. Lindsay Lohan and Simon Kunz choreographed their iconic The Parent Trap handshake themselves. He told Bustle, "The archetypal clip [Lindsay and I] met up, we worked connected the handshake idea, astir what it could be. I deliberation I'd done thing successful the audition, conscionable mucking astir without Lindsay there, conscionable doing silly moves. They liked a fewer of those, and truthful we fundamentally spent an afternoon, 2 oregon 3 hours really, conscionable moving retired that routine...If you inquire maine close present [to bash it], I'd cognize 1 oregon 2 bits there, but I archer you what, it would lone instrumentality maine 20 minutes, and past I'd person it perfectly down pat."

82. Speed manager Jan de Bont told HuffPost that his "biggest purpose was making it each look real" — which led to Sandra Bullock really driving the autobus done the street! There was stunt operator successful the back, but she wasn't connected a workplace batch oregon successful beforehand of a greenish screen. According to USA Today, she got a Santa Monica autobus driver's licence for the role. She said, "I was astatine the instrumentality of projectile. So I was conscionable blessed to beryllium alive. I was caller to the full game, truthful I wasn't alert of what was happening oregon what felt right. We were conscionable successful it. It was real. When we were smashing into things (on screen), we were truly smashing into those things."

83. Space Jam was initially the brainchild of David Falk, Michael Jordan's agent, who'd initially kept the NBA fable distant from the metallic screen. He told the New York Times, "We got piles of scripts. But they didn't acceptable Michael Jordan. He can't truly act. And you person to cognize your limitations.''

84. To play Imhotep successful The Mummy, Arnold Vosloo had to beryllium wholly hairless. He told the Irish Independent, "For the archetypal movie, I bravely consented for this beauteous Scottish girl, who is my make-up artist, to wax me. That happened 1 time. I yelled similar a stuffed pig. It's beyond content what you women spell through. It's unreal."

85. At the Television Critics Association's 2015 property tour, John Stamos admitted that rumors helium tried to get Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen fired from Full House were existent — and helium temporarily succeeded! He said, "It's benignant of existent that the Olsen twins cried a lot. It was precise hard to get the shot. So I [said], 'Get them out…!' That is really 100 percent accurate. They brought successful a mates of unattractive redheaded kids. We tried that for a while, and that didn’t work. [Producers] were like, each right, get the Olsen twins back. And that's the story."

86. According to Collider, Lori Loughlin was lone expected to play Rebecca Donaldson for six episodes. However, her chemistry with John Stamos — on with the remainder of the formed — and her popularity spurred producers to marque her a imperishable fixture. Becky famously joined the Tanner household, marrying Uncle Jesse successful Season 4.

87. Many viewers wanted them to beryllium unneurotic successful existent life, and John told HuffPost Live that they "actually did date" years earlier the show. He said, "We went connected a day to Disneyland earlier we were some married. In existent life, erstwhile we were 18, 19 years old. No disrespect to her household and her hubby now, I would accidental that she could beryllium the 1 that got away. She's 1 of my dearest friends, and that's bully enough. I truly bash adore her."

88. Mike Meyers told Newsweek that the Austin Powers formed was allowed to "do their ain thing." He said, "About 30 to 40 percent is improv."

89. Christopher McDonald "nearly didn't do" Happy Gilmore — and helium really turned down the relation of Shooter McGavin twice. He told And So It Begins, "I was tired. I wanted to spot much of my family. But past I played a circular of play successful Seattle, and we won. And that precocious was thing else. So, with my play shoes inactive on, I went successful the locker room, called my agent, and said, 'Is that play movie inactive available? Because I conscionable won this tourney and I'm feeling a small bit, well, Shooterish.' So I met Adam [Sandler], due to the fact that I didn't cognize if the feline who did Opera Man was going to beryllium immoderate good. I laughed the full clip I spoke with him, and I knew that this kid was truly smart."

90. Saved by the Bell costars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Elizabeth Berkley dated astatine immoderate constituent during filming, which helium confirmed successful 2019. He told Entertainment Tonight, "We dated. If you privation to telephone it dating, sure. You're successful an environment, you cognize however it is erstwhile you're moving connected a set, and we were young, I mean, we were young. There's nary 1 around, really. I mean, you enactment and unrecorded successful a bubble. You're successful LA, right? You're successful your cars, and you travel to set, and you bash your work, and you're with these beauteous women, and past you spell backmost successful your car. You're not going to school, truthful you don't person a batch of choices. People say, 'Well, didn't you spell out?' Not really."

91. Mark-Paul besides dated Lark Voorhies for 3 years. He told People, "All of america dated astatine 1 constituent oregon another—it was incestuous! Sometimes the girls would pack up connected the guys. Tiffani and Elizabeth would hatred me, and past they'd hatred Lark due to the fact that Lark was talking to me, and Mario was expected to broadside with someone. All that worldly you did successful precocious school, like, 'How could you speech to him?'"

92. And Mark-Paul reportedly had a communal crush connected Tiffani Thiessen! Costar Ed Alonzo told Entertainment Tonight, "They kinda liked each different a bit. They liked each different a lot. It was precise cute. It was hand-holding and looking over."

93. Tiffani Thiessen dated Mario Lopez during their clip astatine Bayside High. In his memoir Just Between Us, helium reportedly wrote, "I thought that being loyal to Tiffani was the close happening to do. But I can't accidental that I was susceptible astatine that property of pursuing done connected my noble intentions."

94. Never Been Kissed histrion Drew Barrymore told the podcast Hey Dude...The '90s Called!, "I would get these calls from the studio, and they were like, 'I'm sorry, but you're conscionable looking excessively unattractive.' ...I was forced to adjacent code it down a small spot due to the fact that I had gone adjacent farther, and past they said thing that appealed to my sensibilities alternatively than my ego. They were like, 'We don't privation you to suffer the bosom due to the fact that you're going truthful acold for the comedy,' and I was like, 'Great argument. Let maine dial it backmost a small bit.' So Josie, what you spot there, is maine dialed back."

95. In the Everybody Loves Raymond pilot, Raymond's duplicate sons were named Gregory and Matthew aft his real-life duplicate boys. However, the characters' names were changed to Geoffrey and Michael. They were played by Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten.

96. Sawyer and Sullivan's large sister, Madylin, played their onscreen sister Ally. Her quality is named aft Ray Romano's daughter.

97. In 2014, Jennie Garth confirmed longstanding rumors of an on-set feud with her Beverly Hills, 90210 costar Shannen Doherty to E! News. She said, "We were locked successful this dependable signifier for 14-16 hours each day. There were times erstwhile we loved each other, and determination were times erstwhile we wanted to claw each other's eyes out." In her publication Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde, Jennie added, "It was much of conscionable young girls uncovering their mode and uncovering their idiosyncratic voices. Shannen and I are some Aries women, we're some precise strong, autarkic women, truthful we butt heads a lot. Now, arsenic grown women, we hap to get on arsenic well."

Then, connected Celebrity Lie Detector successful 2015, Tori Spelling admitted that tensions betwixt Shannen Doherty and the remainder of the formed were high. Describing the incidental that was the past straw, Tori said, "Shannen runs successful and sits down to get [her] hairsbreadth done, and you could conscionable consciousness everyone was turning and looking. I knew idiosyncratic was gonna accidental something." Shannen got into a "heated fight" with Ian Ziering, who allegedly told her, "You are a C-U-N-T: Can't Understand Normal Thinking." Afterwards, the formed banded unneurotic to get Shannen fired, truthful Tori brought the contented to her dad, bid creator Aaron Spelling.

Tori said, "I felt similar I was a portion of something, a movement, that outgo idiosyncratic their livelihood... Was she a horrible person? No. She was 1 of the champion friends I ever had." However, she felt she made the close determination "in the workplace, arsenic a coworker."

98. Shannen Doherty was allegedly fired from Charmed due to the fact that of an ultimatum Alyssa Milano gave producers. On Shannen's podcast Let's Be Clear, costar Holly Marie Combs said, "[Producer Jonathan Levin] said, you know, 'We're fundamentally successful a presumption wherever it's 1 oregon the other. We were told [by Alyssa] that it's [Shannen] oregon me, and Alyssa has threatened to writer america for a hostile workplace environment.'" She besides said Alyssa allegedly "built a lawsuit for herself," bringing a mediator successful to papers each the instances she felt uncomfortable.

During a MegaCon panel, Alyssa denied her costars' allegations. She said, "I'm the astir bittersweet that a amusement that has meant truthful overmuch to truthful galore radical has been tarnished by a toxicity that is inactive to this day, astir a 4th of a period later, inactive happening. And I'm bittersweet that radical can't determination past it. And I'm bittersweet that we each can't conscionable observe the occurrence of a amusement that meant truthful overmuch to each of us."

Later, connected Instagram, Alyssa added, "This was truthful agelong agone that immoderate retelling of these stories from anyone is conscionable revisionist history. I volition add, though, with implicit certainty—everything was documented. There was a nonrecreational mediator (I was told Holly and Shannen would not enactment successful immoderate mediation) and an on-set producer/babysitter who were some brought successful to analyse each claims. It was past recommended by this mediator, aft collecting grounds from formed AND unit — what changes should beryllium made if the amusement was going to continue. The studio, Aaron Spelling, and web made the determination to support the planetary deed that was Charmed. I did not person the powerfulness to get anyone fired. Once Shannen near we had 5 much palmy seasons and I americium everlastingly grateful."

99. According to the publication Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks, to support the individuality of Laura Palmer's murderer nether wraps, the formed and unit were fixed fake scripts, and 2 alternate reveals were shot.

100. Julianna Margulies's ER character, Carol Hathaway, wasn't expected to past beyond the archetypal episode. On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Julianna said, "Honestly, I beryllium my vocation to George Clooney. I do...I earnestly beryllium my vocation to George Clooney due to the fact that my quality died successful the aviator of ER, and I was astir to motion onto a not precise bully sitcom, 'cause I came backmost to New York. I needed a job. And helium called maine retired of the blue, benignant of enactment his cervix retired connected the enactment for me, and said, 'I overheard that your quality tested well, and if I were you, I wouldn't instrumentality different job, due to the fact that I deliberation they're gonna bring you backmost to life.'"

Carol became Doug Ross's main emotion involvement due to the fact that of the chemistry betwixt Julianna and George. She told People, "That can't hap if you don't person a crush connected each other. And with George and me, it was truthful organic. I was conscionable expected to beryllium a impermanent star, fig 39 connected the telephone sheet. But helium treated everyone the same."

101. And finally, connected I'll Fly Away, Jeremy London played Nathan Bedford for 2 seasons, but his duplicate brother, Jason London, took implicit the relation for the 90-minute bid finale. The amusement was canceled earlier shooting connected the finale began, and Jeremy had already booked Angel Falls. Ironically, Jason was initially formed arsenic Nathan successful the archetypal bid but fto the portion spell to Jeremy due to the fact that helium was engaged filming a movie.

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I Can't Watch My Favorite '90s TV Shows And Movies The Same Way After Reading These 101 Behind-The-Scenes Facts

There are truthful galore iconic '90s TV shows and movies that radical emotion to ticker implicit and over. Over the years, the formed and unit members person shared each kinds of absorbing behind-the-scenes tidbits.

Here are 101 behind-the-scenes facts astir '90s movies and TV shows:

4. For Mrs. Doubtfire, constitution creator Ve Neill spent 4 and a fractional hours connected Robin Williams's constitution transformation. She applied respective pieces of a mask, blended them, past painted and molded connected wrinkles and blemishes.

6. This is however Fran Drescher pitched her thought for The Nanny to Peter Marc Jacobson, her hubby and collaborator astatine the time: "It's kinda a rotation connected The Sound of Music, lone alternatively of Julie Andrews, I travel to the door."

Alicia Silverstone added, "I didn't cognize what thing meant. I would person to accidental to Amy, 'What does 'As if' mean? She's mode hipper than I am. I mean, 'Surfing the crimson wave'?"

"It had to beryllium plaid. It's conscionable quintessential school. You're taking this precise overmuch of a Catholic schoolhouse azygous and present twisting it to precocious manner and past transforming it yet again done the eyes of the precocious schoolhouse girl," she said.

He added, "I did a fewer episodes successful a sling. And they wrote it into the amusement arsenic Joey was jumping connected the bed."

18. Initially, Courteney Cox auditioned for and got the portion of Rachel Green. However, realizing she wasn't close for the role, she convinced NBC to fto her play Monica Gellar instead, and Jennifer Aniston took implicit arsenic Rachel.

20. On Friends: The Reunion, David Schwimmer revealed that helium had a crush connected his onscreen emotion interest, Jennifer Aniston. And then, Jennifer told David, "It was reciprocated."

23. Debra utilized immoderate of her idiosyncratic apparel to formal Rachel Green, specified arsenic her blistery pinkish faux fur overgarment and Missoni trousers. Rachel adjacent sported respective monochrome outfits from the stylist's covering line.

Linda added, "They didn't privation america to look similar radical successful different shows — which you don't truly cognize however to take. It was comforting connected 1 hand, and not truthful overmuch connected the other."

31. In the archetypal Free Willy script, Jesse was rather different. Producer Lauren Shuler-Donner told Entertainment Weekly, "The archetypal publication was excessively sweet, excessively mushy, excessively formulaic. The small lad was mute and lived with nuns!"

35. Jason besides said that Chris Rock turned down the relation of George. He said, "Why Chris wouldn't bash it, I don't know. Maybe it didn't get to an connection stage. I don't know."

Reese added, "I retrieve uncovering Annette excessively demure and excessively overmuch of a pistillate influenced by a guy's manipulations. I was starting what I conjecture became my bigger ngo successful beingness — of questioning wherefore women were written definite ways connected film."

59. Carrie Fisher and George Lucas had concealed cameos successful Hook! According to The Wrap, filmmakers confirmed they appeared arsenic a mates connected the span that Tinker Bell enchants.

63. On their associated podcast Pod Meets World, Danielle told her Boy Meets World costar Rider Strong that she'd had a crush connected him. She said, "I deliberation it started possibly aboriginal successful Season 1 and decidedly done Season 2."

However, Madonna didn't person immoderate shot acquisition anterior to landing the relation of Mae Mordabito. According to Sports Illustrated, she spent a summertime successful Chicago learning the sport.

88. Mike Meyers told Newsweek that the Austin Powers formed was allowed to "do their ain thing." He said, "About 30 to 40 percent is improv."

92. And Mark-Paul reportedly had a communal crush connected Tiffani Thiessen! Costar Ed Alonzo told Entertainment Tonight, "They kinda liked each different a bit. They liked each different a lot. It was precise cute. It was hand-holding and looking over."

95. In the Everybody Loves Raymond pilot, Raymond's duplicate sons were named Gregory and Matthew aft his real-life duplicate boys. However, the characters' names were changed to Geoffrey and Michael. They were played by Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten.

96. Sawyer and Sullivan's large sister, Madylin, played their onscreen sister Ally. Her quality is named aft Ray Romano's daughter.

Tori said, "I felt similar I was a portion of something, a movement, that outgo idiosyncratic their livelihood... Was she a horrible person? No. She was 1 of the champion friends I ever had." However, she felt she made the close determination "in the workplace, arsenic a coworker."

99. According to the publication Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks, to support the individuality of Laura Palmer's murderer nether wraps, the formed and unit were fixed fake scripts, and 2 alternate reveals were shot.

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