Charles Bronson as Wild Bill Hickok is seen regularly wearing dark sunglasses throughout this movie.
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While trying to be farcical, the film is actually quite accurate regarding the modelling industry. Even the quick scene of the two sets of bunk beds at Derek's apartment is factual. Cindy Crawford and Jules Asner shared a similar bunkroom during the early days of their modelling careers.
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Derek's repetition of the line "But why male models?" for the second time, in the cemetery scene, was an ad-lib by the actors; Ben Stiller forgot his line and simply repeated the earlier line again, and David Duchovny ran with it and gave him a straight answer.
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In the break-dance fighting scene, if you look closely, you can see Hansel has a silver tooth on the right side of his mouth.
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Despite numerous instances suggesting that Derek has extremely low intelligence, he is somehow able to speak Malay, although he still makes malapropisms.
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In the Hansel apartment scene, Matilda confesses she was bulimic as a child. Christine Taylor played Marcia Brady in [The Brady Bunch Movie](/category/8301/the-brady-bunch-movie) (1995) and A Very Brady Sequel (1996). Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia on the original The Brady Bunch (1969), suffered from bulimia.
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Ben Stiller wrote David Bowie's scene as judge of the walk-off into the script without knowing for sure whether he would agree to it.
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The massive video walls on both sides of the stage were provided by (now defunct) Mobile Wall One, Inc.
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This is the first American movie in which Alexander Skarsgård appeared.
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Trance artist BT was originally scoring the film in collaboration with Ben Stiller, but was replaced with Composer David Arnold.
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The voice heard saying, "Ooo, Maury!" after Maury delivers the tushy squeeze, is actually the voice of Christine Taylor (Matilda Jeffries).
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The yo-yo scenes, as shown by Hansel (Owen Wilson), were performed by professional yo-yo performer and Duncan Yo-Yo Company employee Steve Brown.
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Images of the World Trade Center towers were removed before the movie's September 28, 2001 release, only seventeen days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks where the towers were brought down. They were edited out of one shot, and obscured in another.
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Vince Vaughn: Played Luke Zoolander in the coal mine.
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The first television coverage of the September 11 attacks, on the WNYW channel, interrupted a commercial for this movie.
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Ben Stiller: [Star Trek] Mugatu is named after Mugato from Star Trek: The Original Series: A Private Little War (1968). His costume was also modeled after the character. Note that the 'Mugato' in the episode is credited as 'The Gumato'.
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When Derek and Hansel disguise themselves and sneak into Maury's office, Hansel's jumpsuit has a name tag on which the name "Kumar" is printed. This refers to Kumar Pallana, who appeared in the following Wes Anderson films: Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and The Darjeeling Limited (2007).
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Owen Wilson (Hansel) wore a wig for the entire movie. He was filming Behind Enemy Lines (2001) at the same time, and had to keep his hair short for the role.
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Bret Easton Ellis, author of the 1998 novel "Glamorama", about a dimwitted male model who finds himself embroiled in a terrorist ring with roots in the fashion industry, sued Ben Stiller following the release of this film, citing copyright infringement. The case was settled out of court.
Zoolander - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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