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On Killing Eve, Jodie Comer’s character, Villanelle, takes on quite a few accents, together with Russian, American, Scottish, and Australian. In actual life, Comer is from Liverpool. The actor revealed that her penchant for pulling off a number of accents truly stems from one thing she used to do along with her dad when she was a child.
“It comes from rising up,” Comer defined whereas talking on the Season 2 premiere of Killing Eve. “Me and my dad, if there was an advert with a foolish voice on, we’d all the time impersonate it round the home simply joking round.”
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On Stranger Issues, Joseph Quinn’s real-life guitar expertise undoubtedly got here in helpful for Eddie’s “Grasp of Puppets” sequence. It seems that scene was a little bit of a crew effort, although — Quinn realized the Metallica music and mastered it, nevertheless it was guitarist Aiden Fisher’s fingers that had been utilized in these close-up photographs.
“I performed guitar since I used to be very younger, so I used to be fortunate that I had a basis there,” Quinn defined in an interview with Collider. “Once I learn the scripts the following morning, I went out and purchased a guitar and manically began studying ‘Grasp of Puppets.’ On the day, me and Gaten [Matarazzo, who plays Dustin] simply acquired up on prime of the camper van, and simply acquired into it. It was very enjoyable. I performed most of it. We acquired a type of black belt metallic guitarist to come back in and do the solo as a result of I am a human being. It is very quick, however the remainder of it, I attempted my finest to grasp that.”
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Within the Legacies episode, “Since When Do You Communicate Japanese?”, Josie is revealed to be fluent in Japanese when she acts as a translator for a demon-possessed samurai, Kurutta. This was written in after the writers found that Josie’s actor, Kaylee Bryant (who is a component Japanese in actual life), might converse Japanese.
“I spoke Japanese just a few occasions on the [Instagram] Reside and one among our writers, Penny Cox, noticed me talking Japanese and instantly went to Brett [Matthews, showrunner] and was like, ‘We have to make this occur by some means,'” Bryant defined in an interview with BuzzFeed. “After which abruptly, I had a script in my fingers. So it was a shock, however a enjoyable one.”
Bryant clarified that they are not fluent in Japanese, however that she will be able to converse it “on the degree of possibly a second-grader on a great day.”
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In The Workplace episode, “Michael’s Birthday,” everybody goes to an ice skating rink to rejoice Michael’s birthday. In an episode of the Workplace Women podcast, Jenna Fischer (who performed Pam) revealed that the writers deliberately selected that setting as a result of they needed to showcase Steve Carell’s skating expertise.
“Steve Carell is a really, superb ice skater. He performed hockey rising up [and] he performed pickup hockey each week as an grownup,” Fischer mentioned. “The writers had on one among their playing cards up on the wall [in the writer’s room] this reality about Steve being a great ice skater, and so they had been trying ceaselessly for a method to incorporate it.”
In truth, Carell had truly hoped to make it into the NHL when he was youthful. “It didn’t go properly clearly,” he mentioned in an interview with ESPN. “You realize, you attain a degree in your life when it’s a must to get sincere, and that wasn’t going to occur. However I loved it. I performed via faculty.”
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On Bewitched, Samantha famously wiggles her nostril to forged spells. This was integrated as a result of Elizabeth Montgomery (who performed Samantha) had a behavior of twitching her nostril every time she acquired nervous in actual life.
In response to Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Profession of Elizabeth Montgomery by Herbie Pilato, it was director William Asher (who was additionally Montgomery’s husband on the time) who got here up with the thought to include the quirk into the pilot.
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In an episode of Prison Minds, Spencer flirts with a bartender by making an attempt to impress her with magic tips. This was written in as a result of Matthew Grey Gubler (who performs Spencer) is expert at performing magic tips in actual life.
“I grew up in Las Vegas [and] I needed to be a magician once I was a toddler,” Gubler revealed in an interview with the West Australian. “Then I discovered the magic of filmmaking and liked performing in my very own silly films.”
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Within the Glee episode “I Am Unicorn,” Chris Colfer’s character, Kurt, twirls sai swords throughout a memorable efficiency. Colfer is definitely very good with swords in actual life. “I am type of a ninja,” he joked on Friday Evening With Jonathan Ross.
“I used to be a extremely massive fan of Xena: Warrior Princess once I was a child,” Colfer defined in an interview with NPR. “Gabrielle had the sai swords and I used to be like, ‘I wanna try this!’ and simply actually needed to study. So the primary job I ever acquired, I used that paycheck, which was about $20, and purchased me some swords.”
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Talking of, Harry Shum Jr.’s dancing expertise not solely formed his Glee character, Mike, however they additionally got here in helpful later for a Shadowhunters scene. Shum’s character Magnus dances with Dot within the Season 2 episode “These of Demon Blood,” and it is fairly lovable.
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On One Tree Hill, Haley (performed by Bethany Pleasure Lenz) is proven to be a proficient singer, however this wasn’t initially written into her character. The concept to have Haley be a singer was integrated into the plot after producers heard Lenz randomly singing on set.
This, after all, turned out to be a fairly main side of Haley’s storyline in Season 2 when she went on tour with musician Chris Keller (and her and Nathan’s marriage virtually ended over it).
“I used to be most likely singing earlier than I might speak,” Lenz mentioned in an interview with TODAY. “Musical theater is my ardour. If I might afford it, I’d simply do dinner theater and reside a easy life.”
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There is a deleted scene within the Angel episode “Ready within the Wings” the place Winifred (performed by Amy Acker) performs as a ballerina. The creators got here up with the premise for the episode — through which the group goes to see a ballet — after studying about Acker’s background in dance.
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Teen Wolf actor Arden Cho (who performed Kira) has mentioned that her background in martial arts majorly helped her carry out stunts for the present. In truth, the actor is definitely a black belt!
“I grew up coaching — my dad’s a grandmaster — and so I grew up with it my entire life,” Cho mentioned in an interview with the Heart for Asian American Media. “And that simply ended up changing into a plus. We study all our battle sequences normally the day of. … I’m actually fortunate that my stunt double takes the time to show me the whole lot and [that] I get to do a justifiable share of my very own stunts. I don’t assume that’s all the time the case.”
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Within the Buddies episode The One The place Joey Speaks French, Phoebe (performed by Lisa Kudrow) is revealed to be fluent in French. Kudrow can even converse French in actual life — additionally, her husband, Michael Stern, is from France.
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There is a scene on The O.C. the place Sandy (performed by Peter Gallagher) publicly serenades his spouse, Kirsten. In actual life, Gallagher is a proficient Broadway performer — he was even nominated for a Tony Award!
It was The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz who got here up with the concept to have Sandy sing. “[Schwartz] mentioned, ‘I’ve acquired to have you ever sing on the present,'” Gallagher mentioned in an interview with Billboard. “And my response was, ‘That’s loopy. That may be so embarrassing. Who desires to listen to the music stylings of Sandy Cohen? I’d be placing away my socks [on the show] singing ‘Oh What a Lovely Morning’?”
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And at last, on Fairly Little Liars, Janel Parrish (who performed Mona) acquired to showcase her singing abilities on just a few events. Notably, Parrish carried out “Gravity” by Sara Bareilles within the Season 5 episode “A Darkish Ali.”
In an interview with Leisure Weekly, govt producer Oliver Goldstick defined the choice to include a musical quantity into the episode: “All of [the cast] have unimaginable hidden abilities and singing occurs to be one among them. And I assumed it was a disgrace that we didn’t make the most of that, and [so] we discovered a method to platform it in one of many episodes within the final 10.”
