1Krasinski Not Cap
John Krasinski auditioned for the role of Captain America. However, after trying on the costume, he said, "I'm not Captain America."
2. The Robocop's suit in the 1987 movie was so cumbersome that the actor could not fit into the police car while wearing it. Therefore, every time you see Robocop driving in that movie, he is not wearing his Robo pants.
3. For the first Superman movie, producers wanted Christopher Reeve to wear fake muscles under the suit. However, he refused and started an intense two-month training program that added 14kg to his 86kg frame. He got so big that they had to reshoot earlier scenes as they did not match the later shots.
4. The budget for the original 1978 film "Halloween" was so small that the actor playing Michael Myers was paid only $20 per day. The original Michael Myers mask was purchased at a local costume shop for $1.29. Despite this, the film grossed $47 million.
5. In "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," most of the uniforms worn by the Nazis in the Berlin book burning scene are authentic World War II uniforms and not costumes. A cache of old uniforms was found in Germany and obtained by Costume Designer Anthony Powell for use in the film.
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6Tarkin's Comfy Slippers
Peter Cushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars, found his costume's boots to be very uncomfortable and therefore anytime his feet were not visible in the shot, he would wear comfy slippers. Therefore, Grand Moff Tarkin destroyed Alderaan wearing comfy slippers.
7. Sean Bean is terrified of flying. Therefore during the filming of "Lord of the Rings," when the cast had to fly to remote shoot locations by helicopter, like the snowy mountains, he travelled part of the way via ski-lift and then spent two hours walking the remainder of the journey, in full Boromir costume.
8. Braveheart has been described as one of the most historically inaccurate modern films. One historian took particular exception to the costumes, comparing them to "a film about Colonial America showing the colonial men wearing 20th century business suits, but with the jackets worn back-to-front."
9. Arnold Schwarzenegger pays Warner Brothers $1 a year to borrow his Mr. Freeze costume from Batman and Robin. Also, the lights on the costume last for 9,000 hours.
10. When filming the original Borat film, Sacha Baron Cohen never washed Borat's suit or wore deodorant when in character. He said it gave Borat a "kind of dreadful Soviet-bloc smell the moment I walk in."
