Meet Matthew Perry, the adorable Chandler from Friends . Look at his smile… Strange, this way of smiling without showing your teeth, no? Matthew Perry always smiled like that, because he was a little self-conscious about his front teeth, which weren’t perfectly aligned. But in 1998, before signing for the romantic comedy Three to Tango ( One Too Much in French), …

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For his first major film role in the film Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Will Smith had to kiss actor Anthony Michael Hall on the mouth in one scene. The kiss was clearly mentioned in the script and Will Smith had no objection to director Fred Schepisi when accepting the role. However, on the day of filming …

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Author James Dickey wrote the original screenplay for the film Deliverance (1972), but director John Boorman then rewrote it almost entirely, being unhappy with the treatment. During the filming of the film, the day Boorman was going to film the heroes’ departure in a canoe, James Dickey decided to let the director know how bad he thought …

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Tom Hanks is probably the most loved and respected actor in Hollywood. Enmities will not easily be found against him. The only notable dispute he is known to have concerned Henry Winkler, the Fonzie from Happy Days . (Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks in an episode of Happy Days) The two men were at odds for decades. At …

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Cinema remained artisanal and daredevil until very late. In the 1950s, actors were easily allowed to take incredible risks. An example, Under the Greatest Show On Earth, the blockbuster by Cecil B. DeMille which revealed Charlton Heston in 1952.  In one of the film’s most spectacular sequences, the train carrying the circus staff and animals is hit by …

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When he worked with Brad Pitt on the film Seven Years in Tibet , director Jean-Jacques Annaud discovered that the star didn’t like having his hair touched. He is informed by those around him that no one should touch his hair without first discussing it with him. In his autobiography Une vie pour le cinéma , released in 2018, …

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