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Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz previously starred together in "Vanilla Sky" (2001).
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Javier Bardem's wardrobe was largely made up of pieces of Versace.
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The Bentley Continental cabrio the counsellor drives to Bardem's party at the beginning of the movie is the latest model (2011-present) while the one he drives to see Brad Pitt for the negotiation is the previous model (2003-2011).
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On August 20, 2012, Ridley Scott halted production of the film due to his brother Tony Scott's death. He canceled that week's shoot in order to travel to Los Angeles to be with his brother's family. Scott returned to London to resume production on September 3, 2012.
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Édgar Ramírez and Brad Pitt, were two of the few people who had the opportunity to work with both Ridley Scott and Tony Scott before Tony's death in 2012. Édgar worked with Tony in Domino (2005) and Brad in Spy Game (2001).
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Michael Fassbender agreed to star in this as part of a two-picture deal. The next film would not be a sequel; instead the studio would fund his Assassin's Creed (2016) project.
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This film is dedicated "In Memory of Matthew Baker" (as Matt Baker). Baker was the Second Assistant Director of Ridley Scott on The Counsellor (2013), Prometheus (2012) and Robin Hood (2010) and died on March 4th 2013 during post-production. Ridley Scott dedicated his next film Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) to his late brother Tony Scott who died on August 19th 2012: The story of the biblical epic features two brothers as lead characters.
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Except for some second unit footage, The Counsellor (2013) was completely shot in Europe.
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At around 1h 22min, at the café where the Counselor (Michael Fassbender) finds out the shipment is missing, when the waitress asks the Counselor what he wants to order, he (semi) jokingly replies "Hemlock". Hemlock is a highly poisonous herbaceous flowering plant, famously known as the poison used to execute the Greek philosopher Socrates.
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When Westray (played by Brad Pitt) tells of his encounter with a Mexican doorman who gave him the black eye, he ends by saying "but that was in another country and besides the wretch is dead", which is a quote from Christopher Marlowe's play "The Jew Of Malta", although there it's "wench" instead of "wretch".
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One of director Guillermo del Toro's favorite films.
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Angelina Jolie was originally cast as Malkina but dropped out. She was replaced by Cameron Diaz.
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The film's main Counselor character remains nameless, as do a few other characters with speaking parts: The Blonde, The Diamond Dealer, The Priest, The Wireman, etc. And no one in the film goes by a complete first & last name.
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Cameron Diaz's character Malkina is Argentinian in Cormac McCarthy's screenplay. The country of origin was changed to Barbados for the film. This decision was seemingly made to better fit Diaz' physical appearance to her character's ethnicity.
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Cameron Diaz initially played Malkina with a thick Bajan accent, which tested poorly with preview audiences. 20th Century Fox subsequently requested that Diaz re-dub the majority of her lines, much to her chagrin. As a consequence of the dubbing, Diaz refused to promote the film upon its release.
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John Leguizamo has a small part in this movie but his name does not appear in the cast credits at the end of the movie.
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Paula Thomas also contributed to the film's wardrobe by dressing Cameron Diaz with roughly 15 different outfits. "[It wasn't until] I read the script that I realized why [Scott] called upon me," said Thomas. "[Cameron's] character has a lot of elements of a Thomas Wylde woman. [She's] bold, edgy, modern. She's about wanting to be seen, as opposed to blending into the background."
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