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A while back, redditor DamianKing42 asked r/movies about movie facts that sound fake but are actually true, and commenters chimed in with a ton of great examples. Here are some of the wildest behind-the-scenes facts!

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A body double was used for Willem Dafoe's nude scenes in Antichrist because his penis was apparently too large. Director Lars von Trier claimed that Dafoe "has an enormous dick" and that "we had to [have a stand-in dick] because Will's was too big" and "everybody got very confused when they saw it." Dafoe has never confirmed or denied this (saying "interviewers seem obsessed with the subject"), though he did note that if they had used his genitals, it would become a distraction, and "that's all that people would talk about."

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Did you know that the film Stuart Little helped rediscover a missing famous painting? Hungarian art historian Gergely Barki was watching the film with his daughter, Lola, in 2009, when he saw a familiar painting hanging behind Stuart and his family. "I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Bereny’s long-lost masterpiece on the wall behind Hugh Laurie. I nearly dropped Lola from my lap," he recalled, referencing Sleeping Lady with Black Vase by Róbert Berény, which had been missing since the 1920s. It took him years to locate the painting, which was hanging, as it turned out, in the home of a former set designer from the film. She said she'd found it in an antiques shop in Pasadena and bought it for the film.

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Seaking of Stuart Little, M. Night Shyamalan co-wrote the film. I just love that fact, because the family classic it is NOT what I would've expected from Shyamalan.

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One of my favorite wild behind-the-scenes facts is that someone spiked the clam chowder with PCP on the last night the Titanic cast and crew were filming in Nova Scotia, leading to about half of them getting disastrously high. They first realized something was off when some crew members started feeling strange, which was shortly followed by the film's director, James Cameron, running around screaming, "There’s something in me! Get it out!"

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Fifty to eighty of them ended up at the nearby Dartmouth General Hospital, where "grips were going down the hallway doing wheelies in wheelchairs," according to one set decorator. "People are moaning and crying, wailing, collapsed on tables and gurneys," Cameron described. "The DP, Caleb Deschanel, is leading several crew down the hall in a highly vocal conga line. You can't make this stuff up." Actor Bill Paxton was dosed, too, though he had more of a mellow high and ended up leaving the hospital, comparing the scene there to "Bedlam."

They never discovered who did it, though apparently, at one point (after production had moved to Mexico), a craft service operator was "taken away at gunpoint by the Mexican police because somebody else on the crew said, 'Oh, I think it was him,' fingering the wrong person," according to crew member Jake Clarke. Clarke also said a member of the art department made T-shirts to commemorate the ordeal with a photo of the chowder and the words "good crew, bad crew," as those were the groups the crew was divided into once they started tripping.

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Speaking of Titanic...James Cameron was obsessed with the disaster and essentially made the film so he could dive to the wreckage. After the film released, he was filming the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss, which involved underwater footage of the Titanic wreckage and Titanic star Bill Paxton, on September 11, 2001. Twelve hours after the attacks, Cameron surfaced from an underwater dive and asked Paxton, "What is this thing that's going on?" and Paxton replied, "The worst terrorist attack in history, Jim." Cameron hypothesized he “was presumably the last man in the Western Hemisphere to learn about what had happened."

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Here's another 9/11-related fact for you...Perhaps one of the most infamous scenes in the notorious flop Master of Disguise was the "turtle club" scene, in which Dana Carvey, dressed as a turtle, asked, "Am I not turtle enough for the turtle club"? Well, it's long been rumored that the scene was filmed on 9/11 and that the cast took a moment of silence with Carvey in the costume.* A few years ago, Carvey finally confirmed the rumors, though he said "they obfuscated" the news and also took "an appropriate time off."...but yes, eventually, they did all ta

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