Though they spent the great majority of their time behind the scenes, Joost and Schulman actually make cameos in the film. Schulman was the ghost underneath the blanket, "Catlike reflexes," he cracked. "Very agile." Joost's cameo is similarly mysterious, though at least part of his body is visible - even if you can't tell.
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At one point in the film, the Sebastian Graves (Mark Strong) secret agent character is joking referred to as Ben Kingsley. Kingsley had previously co-starred in Sacha Baron Cohen's earlier movie The Dictator (2012). Cohen and Kingsley both also acted in Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011).
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According to the Huffington Post, in relation to the scene where Donald Trump gets AIDS, "studio executives are nervous about angering the famously vengeful and litigious [Donald] Trump, compounded by the possibility of getting on the wrong side of the possible next president" and "back at Sony's Hollywood headquarters, however, there has been much less enthusiasm about the scene in question. Three industry sources said that Sony had made its displeasure clear and pushed to remove the scene, but that [Sacha] Baron Cohen, in a rare deal for a producer-actor, has final authority over the film".
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The joke names that bald MI6 agent Commander Sebastian Graves (Mark Strong) gets called in the movie include Vin Diesel, Ben Kingsley, and that guy from the Despicable Me (2010) movies.
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Sacha Baron Cohen attended a soccer football match between Grimsby Town and Cambridge United in October 2013. Cohen wore a Grimsby Town Football Club shirt and mixed with local fans after the game in an English pub called the Blundell Park Hotel .
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The two famous celebrities that the media reported were wanted for questioning after falling out of an elephant's uterus, which were really a confusion of Nobby (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Sebastian (Mark Strong), were Liam Gallagher and Vin Diesel respectively.
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Fourth cinema movie collaboration of actress Isla Fisher and actor Sacha Baron Cohen who both previously have appeared in Brüno (2009), The Dictator (2012), and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006). Cohen and Fisher are husband and wife.
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In at least one earlier draft of the film's script, Isla Fisher's British Intelligence agency staffer character, Jodie Figgis, was called Sarah Welles. When Nobby (Sacha Baron Cohen) first encountered his long lost brother MI6 secret agent Sebstian Graves (Mark Strong), Sarah and Sebastian were about to have sex, when Nobby interrupts. In the finished film, there is still an internal intelligence agency fraternizing personal relationship between Graves and Figgis.
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It was originally announced that the movie would be released in the USA on 31 July 2015. The film was eventually released stateside on 11 March 2016.
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The film is titled "The Brothers Grimsby" in the USA but is named "Grimsby" in territories such as England, Finland, Israel, Sweden, Norway, and Australia. The movie's original working title was"The Curse of Hendon".
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The British theatrical release reduced the amount of "crude humor" in order to obtain a 15 rating there.
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Young actor Miles Evans portrays a son of Nobby (Sacha Baron Cohen) called "Django Unchained". Django Unchained (2012) is the name of a Quentin Tarantino slavery western movie which had been made and released about four years earlier. Sacha Baron Cohen (SBC) is the only cast and crew member of The Brothers Grimsby (2016) who is billed in the credits for Django Unchained (2012) where SBC received a "special thanks" credit.
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Sony's distribution chief Rory Bruer said of this movie: "We certainly wanted more. Sacha [Baron Cohen] is amazing and we love him, and we tried to crack the code on it, but it just didn't happen for us".
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First action cinema movie of actor-writer-producer-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Sacha Baron Cohen, who is eight years younger than Mark Strong, plays Strong's older brother.
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The movie features two actresses who have been nominated for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Academy Award, Gabourey Sidibe and Penélope Cruz, who were nominated for Precious (2009) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) respectively, with the latter winning the Oscar for the category. Actor Barkhad Abdi was nominated in the male equivalent of that Oscar category for Captain Phillips (2013) whilst star Sacha Baron Cohen and co-writer Peter Baynham were Oscar nominated for co-writing Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006).
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This 2016 spy spoof movie, which features a number of actresses of large size, was released in the Golden 50th Anniversary year of the 1960s spy comedy film The Fat Spy (1966).
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The movie was released approximately exactly ten years after Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006). As such, The Brothers Grimsby (2016) debuted in the 10th Anniversary year of the earlier classic Sacha Baron Cohen comedy which got Oscar nominated for a screenplay Academy Award.
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"The Trawler Pub" is actually "The Army & Navy" Pub located at New Barns Street, East London E13. A lot of scenes where the Grimsby brothers are openly pursed by MI6 agents dubbed Man United fans at the pub are filmed near the flats and the park situated behind.
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