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  • Writer's pictureHeather Loughnane

10 Interesting facts...

Hollywood has a way with magical powers of suspending our real-life problems for those few hours of taking us to their distant worlds, full of remarkable characters and storylines. Sometimes you might actually forget that those characters are just people, and the world is a film set.


There are plenty of interesting behind the scenes secrets, that what you stumble upon is shocking yet fascinating. Everything you see has interesting anecdotes behind them, so much more than what you see on screen.


Check out these ten mind-blowing famous Hollywood facts below, and you'll surely find something that you didn't know before.


1. First movie to gross over $100 million was Jaws (1975).


2. The most watched series finale in U.S. television history remains the 1983 finale M*A*S*H.


3. Albert Einstein's face inspired the artistic designer "Stuart Freeborn" for the Star War's character, Yoda.


4. "The Wolf of Wall Street" is named the most profane film of all time with 715 curse words over the course of three hours.


5. In "Bruce Almighty" Steve Carrell was given the role as he was the only one that could adequately do the anchor breakdown scene of saying gibberish. It was his first major film role that helped launch his career.


6. "The Big Bang Theory" was the Longest-Running Multi-Camera Sitcom in History. Beating "Cheers" out of one episode in episode-count of 276 episodes.


7. Despite Leonardo DiCaprio having never done drugs, he enlisted the real #JordanBelfort help to re-enact the stages of getting high for the crawling scene in "The Wolf of Wall Street".


8. The crew had a 30 minute time window to capture the magic hour twilight Hollywood Hills dance sequence in "LaLa Land". They managed five takes within two days and used the fourth take for the film.


9."The Schindiler's List" was the most expensive black & white movie made to date with a budget of 22million dollars.


10. The first "talkie" in Hollywood, meaning a film made with sound was produced in 1927 called "The Jazz Singer".



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