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Hugh Jackman read some three dozen books on P.T. Barnum to prepare for the title role.

Jeff Bridges said he felt really uncomfortable not having a script or rehearsals, since normally he is very prepared, and knows his lines word for word. Realizing it was like he was in a "two hundred million dollar student film" took the pressure off of him and made it fun.

Dean Devlin said that most of the dialogue in the scenes Jeff Goldblum shared with Judd Hirsch and Will Smith was improvised.

It was Don Johnson's idea for his character to hand his empty plate to Marta as if she was the maid during the immigration conversation.

Cindy Pickett and Lyman Ward, who played Ferris's parents, married in real life after filming this movie. They later divorced in 1992.

To prepare for the scene where Neo wakes up in a pod, Keanu Reeves lost fifteen pounds and shaved his whole body to give Neo an emaciated look.

The scene in which Ludwig (Harvey Keitel) says "Good luck, kid!" before slapping Zero (Tony Revolori) across the face was shot forty-two times until Wes Anderson was satisfied. Keitel actually slapped Revolori each time.

The "Step in Time" sequence had to be filmed twice because of a scratch on the film from the first take. The entire sequence took a week to film.

Ed Harris and Jim Carrey never met during filming.

For a cornfield scene, Sir Christopher Nolan sought to grow five hundred acres of corn, which he learned was feasible from his producing of Man of Steel (2013). The corn was then sold, and actually made a profit.

Denis Villeneuve saw Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) as a "rhino in human form," and so Skarsgård had to spend seven hours a day applying makeup for his role as the Baron.

Joaquin Phoenix ad-libbed his scream of "Am I not merciful?" Connie Nielsen wasn't expecting it, and her frightened reaction was genuine.

Audrey Tautou revealed that, during her audition, she asked if she could take a photo of Ron Howard and Tom Hanks to prove that she'd actually met them.

Steven Spielberg hired the top twelve contortionists from around the world to do the futuristic yoga class scene.

(at around 2h 35 mins) In the scene where the water comes crashing into the Grand Staircase room, the film makers had only one shot at it because the entire set and furnishings were going to be destroyed.