Wilson the volleyball, from the movie 'Cast Away', won an award for 'Best Inanimate Object'.
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Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
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The actor playing The Mountain in Game of Thrones Season 4, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, was only 25 years old at the time of filming.
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John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes". When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
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