The Internship - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of The Internship or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Internship

[miriam]

Vince Vaughn's and Owen Wilson's third film together after Starsky & Hutch (2004) and Wedding Crashers (2005).

[carl]

In this movie, Dana (Rose Byrne) corrects Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson) that her accent is Australian, not British. Rose Byrne was born in Sydney, Australia.

[kristina]

Billy mentions the foods he would take home and eat while speaking with Raj (sushi, chips and salsa, pizza, ice cream, and pudding). He can be seen eating each of these items throughout the movie.

[francisco]

When being interviewed, Billy mentions that they don't have a webcam on their computers. Then, they are asked by one of the interviewers what kind of computer they use for their coding ability, if they don't have a webcam on their own computer. This is unnecessary, as you don't need to have a webcam in order to perform code.

[richard]

Ricki Noel Lander auditioned for the movie, and her audition tape was notable for including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft as her reading partner.

[bessie]

Two cast members from Gossip Girl (2007) are in this movie. They also make a joke early on about it.

[tammy]

The tattoo on Will Ferrell's neck is not in Sanskrit nor Hindi. It reads " Make reasonable choices", but it is basically English written in Devanagari form (with spelling mistakes) instead of Roman form.

[kenneth]

Jeremy Hoffman, a software engineer for Google, wrote an article to clarify the portrayal of Google's staff and practices are inaccurate, and that the company had little to no involvement other than lending the use of the brand.

[frederick]

Lyle (Josh Brener) wears a t-shirt with N.A.S.A.'s meatball logo on it in one scene, and in another scene that takes place in his office, has the Google doodle commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Flight of Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1, who became the First Man in Space (April 12, 1961-April 12, 2011) hanging on his wall.

[bryan]

The three girls in the library scene are Director Shawn Levy's children.

[veronica]

In a scene, Vince Vaughn claims that he's the same height as Will Ferrell. In real-life, Vaugn is an inch taller than Ferrell.

[charlie]

DIRECTOR_CAMEO(Shawn Levy An annoyed Google employee who is trying to take a nap while Nick (Owen Wilson) is talking to Dana (Rose Byrne).

[amber]

Before moving the focus to the Google Campus, the Headquarters of Oracle Corporation is shown briefly.

[morris]

Josh Gad, who wears headphones to pretend he can't hear, and then revealing himself and his wisdom to Vince Vaughn's confident outsider, is, whether intentional or otherwise, similar to The Chief in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, who pretended he was deaf, and wound up surprising Jack Nicholson in the same fashion.

[tammy]

The film used one hundred real Google employees as extras.

[charlie]

Even though Google didn't pay to be in the movie, the company was allowed control over how their products were to be depicted. For example, the filmmakers wanted a scene where the self-driving car crashes, but Google wanted the scene removed, because the product hadn't launched yet.

[lynn]

In the scene where Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) is Google searching for a job, he wears a Dwight Yoakam t-shirt. Dwight Yoakam was Vince's co-star in Four Christmases (2008).

[sara]

Sergey Brin: The Google co-founder can be seen riding a bike in the Google headquarters arrival scene. He can also be seen congratulating the two main characters at the end of the film.

[mathew]

During the quidditch match Vince Vaughns character can be seen getting hit in the head with a red ball, this same thing happened in the regional qualifier match in dodgeball.