Highly censored in countries such as the USA and UK. Uncut Italian version is 105 minutes (PAL) while the UK version is heavily cut to 88 minutes (PAL), which becomes 92 minutes in the USA due to NTSC slowdown. Meaning more than 16% of its run-time is cut.
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Jared Leto lost thirty pounds for his role.
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Jared Leto went on an all-liquid diet to drop the weight fast for his role in the film. He stated that he lost ten pounds in five days. As he told many interviewers, he even began to feel like a different person in the way he talked and walked.
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Matthew McConaughey's character calls Jennifer Garner's character "Nurse Ratched" as he is leaving her office. Obviously, this is not her name but is instead the name of the nurse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) starring Jack Nicholson.
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During the scene with the hookers towards the beginning of the film, Matthew McConaughey's character calls the girls "Miss Alaska and Miss Louisiana." McConaughey starred in the series True Detective (2014), which was set in Louisiana, and his character spent many years living in Alaska.
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Hilary Swank was cast but she dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
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The film marked Jared Leto's return to acting after five years.
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There is a poster of a red Lamborghini Aventador in the office that Matthew McConaughey's character opens up.
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Despite the title, the movie was not filmed in Dallas.
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Rayon calls Woodroof "Lone Star" at one point in the movie. Matthew McConaughey starred in the film Lone Star (1996). He also played a character who drinks Lone Star beer on the show True Detective (2014), and McConaughey himself is a Texas native, which is known as "The Lone Star State."
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The "Rayon" and "Eve" characters did not exist in real life.
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Jared Leto waxed his whole body for the film.
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Over the course of its twenty years in circulation, the script was turned down over one hundred times.
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After playing an LGBT character in this film, Jared Leto then went on to play The Joker in Suicide Squad (2016). The same thing happened to Heath Ledger, who played an LGBT character in Brokeback Mountain (2005) and then later played The Joker in The Dark Knight (2008). Also, Cesar Romero, who played The Joker on the 1960s "Batman" television show starring Adam West, was an LGBT person.
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The film's budget was so low that the makeup budget was only $250.00. The makeup artists were able to work with that amount, and the film still won an Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
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At one point, Gael García Bernal circled a role but never reached the deal-making stage.
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Adam Dunn: Neddie Jay, the bartender.
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Matthew McConaughey lost forty-seven pounds for his role as an AIDS patient. Newspapers said he was "terribly gaunt" and "wasting away to skin and bones."
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During the mid-1990s, Dennis Hopper was attached as director with Woody Harrelson as Woodroof, but financial backing was impossible to secure.
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The movie went through various stages before finally being financed, with the help of Matthew McConaughey. The first director/actor duo who tried to get the movie made were Brad Pitt and Marc Forster, as well as Ryan Gosling and Craig Gillespie. Woody Harrelson was also involved with the project at one point.
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Dallas Buyers Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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