Coherence - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[sandra]

Hugo Armstrong (Hugh) was the one to actually break the car windows.

[richard]

When the original Amir (Alex Manugian) & Hugh (Hugo Armstrong) finally return to the house, there was a 45min standoff from the others in the house who wouldn't let them in. The director had to step in and allow them in so that the story could progress.

[sophie]

The director, James Ward Byrkit, said the hardest part of directing was keeping everyone quiet since there were so many people who were compelled to speak a lot.

[ivan]

The night Em (Emily Baldoni) went searching for different houses was filmed the same night the director's wife had their baby. It was a homebirth held in the same house the movie was filmed in.

[kylie]

The reason the cameras are so shaky was not so much a stylistic choice as it was giving the actors the freedom to go anywhere they wished to.

[manuel]

Lorene Scafaria (Lee) had the least idea of what movie was being filmed since the rest of the cast had done test footage before. She only knew it was going to be improvised. About the third day of filming, she realized it wasn't supposed to be a big, broad comedy.

[frances]

The car that Em (Emily Baldoni) knocks out her doppelganger in is her car in real life.

[lonnie]

The characters (and, by association, the film) use the terms for quantum coherance and decoherence exactly backwards. While the characters refer to an isolated, independent quantum state as "decoherant" and therefore stable, in reality, a quantum state is said to be coherant when it remains isolated in such a way. Quantum decoherance occurs when that system interacts with its environment and is no longer in its preserved, coherant quantum state.

[willard]

In the beginning of the movie, Mike (Nicholas Brendon) says that he played a character on the TV show Roswell (1999-2002). This may be a reference to Brendon's real role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996-2003). It could be an early hint, showing a different reality, in which he played a different character on a different 90s teen series.

[cassandra]

There is a deleted scene that explains that the photo of Amir (Alex Manugian) is printed from a battery powered printer of Kevin's (Maury Sterling) due to his profession as a photographer.

[ella]

The neighborhood was supposed to look completely dark when the first group visits the other house. It was the same night a Snickers commercial was being filmed in the neighborhood which used huge lights and hundreds of people.

[lonnie]

The debate about what's happening shortly after the book is brought in went on for 45mins and included a speech from Kevin (Maury Sterling) where he talks about traveling through the Middle East.

[harry]

There were only two cameras used throughout the filming of the movie except during the dinner scene which had one additional camera.

[jamie]

Emily Baldoni wanted to immediately bust the box open when it was first discovered. The director, James Ward Byrkit, had to step in since the filmmakers only had one box.

[kenzi]

Both sides of the phone call at the beginning of the movie were recorded together, instead of the more common practice of adding in the other side later.

[ray]

Instead of scripts, the actors would each receive only a small paragraph (that only they would see) as their 'goals' for the day. This allowed for the story to unfold naturally and create genuine reactions in the other actors.

[sara]

The director, James Ward Byrkit, wanted to use his own house as the setting of the movie. Since his wife was 8-and-a-half months pregnant and wanted a homebirth, she agreed to let him so long as he could do it in 5 days.