The New World - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[kim]

Irene Bedard played Pocahontas's mother in this film, she had previously voiced and was the physical model for the title character in Disney's Pocahontas.

[ethel]

Although it was ultimately determined to be fiscally unfeasible to shoot the entire film on 65mm film stock, this has the distinction of being the first feature film in nine years to shoot on 65mm stock for non-visual effects shots. The last film to shoot in 65mm was Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), which remained the last feature to be entirely shot on 65mm, until Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012) seven years later.

[ethel]

Terrence Malick was so intent on this movie being authentic that he told the actors to do as the characters would. On his breaks, Christian Bale would even sit in John Rolfe's chair and smoke a pipe, and Q'orianka Kilcher did Algonquian dances.

[phyllis]

Kodak sent Terrence Malick a bottle of champagne after learning he had exposed over one million feet of their film stock.

[bessie]

Over 1 million feet of film was shot for completion of the film.

[riley]

In preparation for the role, Colin Farrell read all seven of John Smith's books he published back in England on his accounts of The New World.

[cameron]

Christopher Plummer was infuriated after watching the final cut of the movie and discovering that key scenes had been cut and one of his important speeches had been reduced to background noise. He vowed never to work with Terrence Malick again.

[sandra]

The clothing Pocahontas is wearing during the audience with the queen is based on one of the few contemporary portraits of her.

[gerald]

Shot almost entirely with available light. Only the scenes shot in the Hampton Court Palace interiors were supplemented with artificial light coming through the windows.