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 I recently binged Bridgerton for the first time, and certainly not for the last. I can only really say that I loved it and I was in love with all of the characters, because I refuse to give spoilers. 😉 But I thought it could be fun to write a post featuring some facts about the amazing actors and actresses that contributed to the show. Let's start out with a few facts about the Duke of Hastings himself,  Regé Jean-Page .  1. Born in the UK, he grew up in Zimbabwe before moving back to London in his teens for schooling. 2. During his teen years he and his brother formed a punk band, and to complete the faze Reg é used to dye his hair various colors. His most frequent choices were blue, green, and purple. 3. He attended Drama Centre London, where many famous actors and actresses before him had studied. Some of the famous students on that list include, Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Emilia Clarke. Next stop, his leading lady Phoebe Dynevor  who played Daphne Bridgerto...

Downton Abbey is one of my family's favorite shows. We've watched it through more times than I care to count, and I've even found myself mouthing out lines as they're being said. Needless to say, Downton means a lot to me, in fact "It's my third parent and my fourth child." (Sorry I just couldn't resist quoting Robert. Extra points if you remember that scene.) So here are five fun facts about everyone's favorite show. 1. The upstairs bedrooms are all the same. Apparently they only used one bedroom as the sets for Cora's, Mary's, and Edith's bedrooms. The production team simply redecorated every few days of shooting which made for walls thick with paint and wallpaper by the end of the season. And if you want proof I'm not lying to you just look out the windows of the bedrooms next time you're watching the show, it's always the same view. 2. There was more truth in certain storylines than you'd think. I'm su...

1. The actors did a lot of their own... stunts. I'm sure you all remember that classic scene where Aragorn throws an apple at Pippin's head for complaining about not getting enough food. Viggo Mortensen threw it himself, sixteen times in fact because that's how many times it took to get the scene right. Billy Boyd thinks that Mortensen loved each take, but in his defense who wouldn't. And then we have to talk about the fact that in the scene in Shelob's lair, if you don't remember her she's the big creepy spider that almost killed Frodo, Elijah Wood actually wasn't blinking. Apparently one of his many talents is the ability to stare without blinking for long periods of time. 2. Gandalf hit his head on that ceiling beam for real. Since this isn't really a stunt I couldn't put it in the section above, but Ian McKellen's famous encounter with that ceiling beam at Bilbo's wasn't planned. He hit his head accidentally, but acted ...

Julian Fellowes was born on August 17, 1949, in Cairo, Egypt. His father, Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes, was a diplomat working for the British embassy at the time. And high profile careers ran in the family, his great-grandfather, John Wrightson, was the founder of the Downton Agricultural College. Fellowes childhood home was at Wetherby Place in South Kensington until he was about ten when they moved to a house in Chiddingly, East Sussex. The new house was conveniently placed as it was close to London where Julian's father now worked for Shell, an oil and gas company. Fellowes once said of his father that he was "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it. My mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. At the flat she'd be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and drink. Lovely, really." In the village where they lived there was another family, the Kin...

1. One of the actors fathers was on the show. John Bennett Perry, Matthew Perry's father, appeared as Joshua's dad in "The One with Rachel's New Dress". The show had many guest stars over the seasons like Brad Pitt (who was married to Jennifer Aniston), David Arquette (who was married to Courtney Cox), George Clooney, Robin Williams, and Bruce Willis. 2. Moey? Okay, so I don't know what their actual couple name was going to be, but Joey and Monica could've actually happened. They were originally supposed to be the series main couple , scary right? Fortunately the creators changed their mind once they saw the studio audience's extremely positive reaction to Monica and Chandler getting together, according to Kauffman. 3. Some of the people that auditioned for the main cast went on to play guest characters. Jon Favreau auditioned for the role of Chandler, but ended up playing Pete. And Hank Azaria, who went on to play David, originally auditione...

1. Chris Evans wasn't the only choice for the role of Captain America. Other famous people auditioned for the role including: Dane Cook, Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, John Krasinski, and Sebastian Stan who went on to play Bucky. And one of them may have gotten the part since Chris Evans turned down the role three times. He was worried about what would happen to his private life after such a sudden increase in popularity. He did decide to take the role after talks with Robert Downey Jr, Joe Johnston, and the producers of the film. 2. Stan Lee made a cameo appearance in the movie. He played an old general that mixes up Captain America with a different man, and then comments "I thought he'd be taller." His cameo was the only one he ever made in a feature film adaptation of a Marvel Comics superhero character that he had no hand in originally creating. 3. A future Avenger's mother was in the film, sort of. Around 50 minutes into the movie Laura Haddock appeared as...

1. There were pranksters on set. Clark Gable was one of them. He reportedly ate garlic before filming kissing scenes with Vivien Leigh. Another one of his pranks was to pour actual alcohol into a decanter instead of the tea that they normally used. The victim was Hattie McDaniel, who found out about the prank only after she took a swig. Gable payed for his crimes though. Another prankster (Olivia de Havilland) had her herself fastened to the set for one of the scenes where Gable was supposed to pick her up. He almost threw his back out. 2. The movie resulted in a lot of award firsts. Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy, was the first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar, and by winning it became the first African-American to win an Oscar.  Gone with the Wind was the first technicolor movie to win an Oscar in the best picture category. And Vivien Leigh's performance in the movie was the longest to ever win an Academy Award, she appeared in 2 hours, 23 minutes, and 32 s...

"You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream!" It's an old saying derived from a 1927 song written by Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, and Robert A. King, and it is so true. So I took some time to scoop up some facts about the classic snack, and yes I know that was corny. 😀 First of all, flavors. I can't really tell you how many flavors there are in the world because anything could be an ice cream flavor. So lets say the number is unlimited. Don't believe me? While I was looking around online I found out that vanilla is the most popular flavor in most countries, but some people also enjoy their ice cream with anything from cold noodles to habanero peppers. I'll think I'll stick with chocolate. I also found out what causes ice cream headaches. It turns out that the blood vessels that run in between your mouth and your brain tense up when something really cold touches the roof of your mouth, trapping blood in your brain, therefore causing a headache. D...

1. The Donkey Kong games were supposed to be Popeye games. Originally Nintendo wanted a game based off of Popeye characters, but they failed to obtain the rights they needed to make it, so instead Shigeru Miyamoto was hired to to create a game to fill that spot. He decided to keep the same premise of Popeye, a giant steals a man's girlfriend and the man tries to get her back. Only instead of Popeye it was Jumpman (later known as Mario), instead of Olive Oyl it was Pauline, and instead of Bluto it was DK himself. 2. Donkey Kong was also based off of another classic. The name and plot were similar to the movie King Kong , and in 1982 Universal Studios sued Nintendo because of it. Nintendo hired an American attorney to handle the case, John Kirby. Nintendo won due to the fact that Universal themselves had successfully sued RKO Pictures in 1975 by proving that the rights to  King Kong  was in fact public domain. 3. Kirby wouldn't have had his name if not for Donkey Kong. ...

I recently read The Outsiders for the first time, and I loved it so I decided to do some research about the woman who wrote it. Susan Eloise Hinton was born on July 22, 1948, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1965, when she was just 16 years old, she began work on her first book, The Outsiders. She was inspired to write the book by two rivaling gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School, the Greasers and the Socs. She decided to write the book from a Greaser's point of view to show empathy toward the gang in real life. The Outsiders was published by Viking in 1967, written by S.E.Hinton. She decided to use this gender-neutral moniker so that male readers wouldn't be put off by a woman writing from a boy's point of view. After the success of The Outsiders she gained a wild amount of popularity putting a lot of pressure on her, and resulting in a three-year long writers block. Her boyfriend (now her husband) helped her get past it by making her write two pages a day if she want...

1. He was  Mickey Mouse. After Mickey spoke for the first time in "The Karnival Kid", which was released in 1929, Disney decided that he didn't like the way his voice sounded, so he began voicing the iconic character himself until 1947 when he became too busy. 2. He was a father of two. He and his wife Lillian, whom he married in 1925 after a brief courtship, had two daughters. Their eldest daughter Diane was born in December 1933. They adopted their second daughter, Sharon, in December of 1936 when she was six weeks old. 3. He was in the army. He joined the Red Cross Ambulance Corps when he was 16, by forging his birth certificate to show that he was 17 which was the minimum age requirement. 4. He won a LOT of Academy Awards. In fact he holds the record for the most individual Oscar wins. He won 22, and was nominated for 59. 5. He had a secret hideout. He had an apartment above the park's Main Street Firehouse, from which he watched the opening day ...

1. Pac-Man was designed to be endless, but its not. The game was designed to go on forever as long as the player was good enough to keep at least one life. However at Level 256 a bug prevents you from being able to defeat the level, therefore making Level 256 the final round of Pac-Man. 2. You can only ever earn a certain amount of points. Since you can only reach Level 256, there is a maximum amount of points you can get in the game, 3,333,360. You can achieve this score by eating every dot, power pellet, ghost, and fruit, while never losing a life, and then using those lives to get as many points as possible in the final round. 3. Those dots that Pac-Man eats, weren't always dots. I know that's hard to swallow :P, but originally they were going to be cookies. 4. The ghosts that Pac-Man eats, weren't always ghosts. They were actually referred to as monsters on the original arcade cabinets. 5. The ghosts have their own personalities. The red ghost chases P...

Most people know that Pac-Man was and is big, but how big exactly? Well, it made more money than Star Wars in the year after it came out, making over one billion in quarters. It became the highest grossing video game of all time toward the end of the 20th century, dethroning Space Invaders. And the series has been awarded eight records in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008. How did it become the "greatest video game of all time"? It all started with its creator, the then 24 year old Toru Iwatani. In April 1979, with a nine-man team, he began work on the classic, and in a year he was finished. The game was originally titled PUCKMAN, referring  to the main character's hockey puck shape. However in 1980 when Midway picked up the game for manufacture in the US, the name was changed to Pac-Man. Iwatani designed the game with the goal in mind to try to attract a wider audience. Because at the time most arcade games were geared towards male users, he ...