The white and red print muslin wrap-style day dress Sophie Thompson (Mary Musgrove) wears at Barton Cottage is the same costume Rosamund Pike (Jane Bennet) wears at Longbourn in Pride & Prejudice (2005).
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Theatrical movie debut of Kate Beckinsale (Hero), who shot this movie during her summer break from studying Russian and French at New College, Oxford, England.
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The cast includes two Oscar winners: Dame Emma Thompson and Denzel Washington; and three Oscar nominees: Michael Keaton, Imelda Staunton, and Sir Kenneth Branagh.
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Kate Beckinsale and Robert Sean Leonard would later appear together in The Last Days Of Disco in 1998.
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During the Oscar season in early 1994, the Samuel Goldwyn company spent $10 million campaigning for this movie to garner Oscar nominations. They sent bulky packets to all members of the Academy, and played up the movie in hopes of getting it on the final ballot. The effort was all for nothing. The movie, though highly acclaimed and (unusually for William Shakespeare) a box-office hit, received no Oscar nominations.
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Sir Kenneth Branagh, Dame Emma Thompson, and Imelda Staunton appeared in the Harry Potter film franchise.
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This movie marked the first screen kiss for Kate Beckinsale, when she kissed her co-star Robert Sean Leonard.
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Like Much Ado About Nothing (1967), this movie cast a real-life married couple in the leads. In the earlier, made-for-television movie, it was Robert Stephens and Dame Maggie Smith. In this movie, it was Sir Kenneth Branagh and Dame Emma Thompson. Both couples later divorced.
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Keanu Reeves claimed in an interview on British radio that during filming, Brian Blessed befriended him and taught him how to meditate.
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This is the first of two Kenneth Branagh's William Shakespeare films to have a pre-credits opening sequence. The other is As You Like It (2006). The sequence is actually part of Scene One of the play.
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This is one of two 1993 films that featured Kenneth Branagh (Benedick) and Robert Sean Leonard (Claudio). The other is Swing Kids (1993).
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Much Ado About Nothing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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