31 Bits of Trivia About Some of the Greatest Biopics of All Time

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31 Bits of Trivia About Some of the Greatest Biopics of All Time
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It must take a lot of courage (and audacity) for an actor to portray a real person. Especially a well-known, possibly beloved figure. If we were given the task, it'd come across as a cartoonish caricature for sure. 

Luckily for everyone, no one has or ever will give us that task. Here are a ton of awesome BTS tidbits from movies with those brave, cocky souls who took on that challenge.

Chaplin

Robert Downey Jr. learned to play tennis left-handed for Chaplin. I didn't have to, but it was an opportunity to really go for broke and nail the character as much as I could, he says. Plus, he started over learning tennis once he found out, while being trained as a right-handed player, that Chaplin was left-handed. CRACKED.COM

Tony Danza

Tony Danza trained Robert DeNiro for Raging Bull in 1979. ROSSMAN LOPEz STANTIN y MADISON CAROBN MO 16 MAGAANE That was just before he retired from boxing -- later that year, he focused completely on acting. CRACKED.COM

Source: VICE

Raging Bull

For Raging Bull, Robert De Niro became a good enough boxer to win pro matches. He fought about 1.000 rounds in a training program that lasted almost o

12 Years a Slave

CRACKEDCO William Ford, the lave-owner in 12 Years a Slave is portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch as a pompous hypocrite and a weak man. But in the ac

The King’s Speech

CRACKED.COM In The King's Speech Winston Churchill appears to be on George VI's side. Actually he was a supporter of Nazi-sympathizer King Edward VI

12 Years A Slave

THE OSCAR WINNER 12 Years a Slave ends by saying that details about Solomon's death are unknown. REALITY THE The fact is, Solomon Northup straight-up

Lincoln

During the LINCOLN filming of English method actor, Daniel Day Lewis, insisted that any British members of the cast and crew were to refrain from usin

Gangs of New York

In Gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis played a man who taps his glass eye with a knife. He covered his own eye in prosthetic glass, and practiced tap

The Wolf of Wall Street

Margot Robbie carefully planned Naomi's accent for The Wolf of Wall Street. She wanted Naomi to have muted her original Brooklyn accent (to hide her h

Source: IndieWire

The Real Henry Hill

The real-life Henry Hill from Goodfellas got kicked out of the witness protection program. It happened after they got arrested multiple times on drug charges. CRACKED.COM

Source: ABC

Goodfellas

31 Bits of Trivia About Some of the Greatest Biopics of All Time

CGI in ‘A Beautiful Mind’

Inconspicuous CGI A Beautiful Mind As Russell Crowe's John Nash is losing his mind, he leaves his baby in the bathtub. Obviously, they were not going to risk drowning a baby, so they filmed the kid in an empty bathtub and composited the shot with a CGI-altered, real bathtub with water. CRACKED.COM

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela played a teacher in Malcolm X. He shows up near the end, in a scene in soweto, South Africa, where kids in a classroom shout I am Malcolm x. Mandela then says the last lines of the by any means necessary speech by Malcolm X. CRACKED COM

Source: TIME

Get Rich Or Die Tryin’

Celebrities who tried something new 50 Cent tried acting. His acting debut came in his own biopic Get Rich Or Die Tryin', and it indeed died tryin'. Samuel L. Jackson even turned down a role because of 50's acting abilities. CRACKED

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31 Bits of Trivia About Some of the Greatest Biopics of All Time

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela's death was announced at the CRAGN premiere of his biopic. CASWEE A4 1 COWAL 0 MWS BAMSMA Wono 00 SAATHAN IT IS AN CMAN M700 BENE NO 64

Catch Me If You Can

In Catch Me If You Can, real con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. plays a French COp... ... arresting his fictional self in a twist of irony. The biopic chro

Patton

THE OSCAR WINNER The WWII biopic Patton was filled with epic, energetic battle scenes. REALITY THE Where Axis and Allied forces drove the same tanks.

A Beautiful Mind

In A Beautiful Mind, Nash willpowers himself back to sanity. x+O'x kg +O33 X That doesn't work. In the movie, John Nash suffers from schizophrenia and

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