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Sunday, 4 August 2013




Film 968: Red

Trivia: John C. Reilly was cast as Marvin Boggs, but dropped out and was replaced by John Malkovich.

While filming in Toronto, the police received several phone calls reporting machine gun fire after local residents mistook the movie's gunshot effects for the real thing.

Meryl Streep was considered for the role of Victoria.

Brian Cox and Helen Mirren play a Russian and British spy, respectively. In real life, their ancestry is reversed: Brian Cox is British and Mirren, though born in England, has Russian ancestry.

The purse Victoria uses as a weapon was Helen Mirren's own purse. It was given to her as a gift from Giorgio Armani. Since it went so well with the dress she was wearing, and the purse was part of the script, she asked if she could use it. The producers said yes.

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