Jack Palance insisted that one of the scenes use a master shot, and so they did a master shot and he was furious because then he had an idea and they couldn't do anything about it. Director Michael Winner said "Jack - serves you right. You and your bloody master shot!"
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The spaceship fabric that can be seen in young Richard Brown's room is the same that one of the blankets is made from that older Richard wraps around him when he is ill.
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Features Julianne Moore's only Oscar nominated performance in a movie nominated for Best Picture.
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Julianne Moore was wearing a fake stomach. She wasn't really pregnant at the time of filming.
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The first time Clarissa (Meryl Streep) visits Richard (Ed Harris) she asks how he has slept and he says something like "He saw glowing jellyfish", which might be an in-joke to his role in The Abyss (1989).
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Virginia Woolf's dialogue from the book is narrated verbatim by Nicole Kidman with only a few passages omitted as they were deemed irrelevant to this portrayal.
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The first time that Meryl Streep appeared in a movie nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards since Out of Africa (1985), despite the fact she has been Oscar nominated seven more times since then.
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(Kodak Theatre/March 23, 2003) When Nicole Kidman ascended the stage to accept her Best Actress Oscar from presenter Denzel Washington, co-star Ed Harris played the role of "seat-filler" when he occupied the vacant seat beside Kidman's mom for the duration of her acceptance speech.
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Nicole Kidman is one of two left-handed Best Actress winners to portray a right-handed character. Left-handed Julia Roberts won her Oscar for playing right-handed [Erin Brockovich-Ellis](/category/8010/erin-brockovich) in Erin Brockovich (2000).
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Gwyneth Paltrow was considered for the role of Laura Brown.
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To achieve the effect of Laura becoming submerged in the hotel room, the set was lowered into a tank of river water.
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In the beginning of the movie, every house is seen to be having flowers. Every house has a different color of flowers: red, yellow, and blue - Virginia Woolf's trademark.
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When the seating chart for Richard's party is shown, the name in the middle is Michael Cunningham, who wrote this story.
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"The Hours" was the original working title of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway".
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All three leading actresses have won Academy Awards.
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Allison Janney was originally chosen for the role of Barbara in the Flower Shop, but she insisted on taking the role of Sally Lester, Clarissa Vaughan's (Meryl Streep's) lover.
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To make her look like Virginia Woolf, Nicole Kidman wore a false nose as strongly recommended by costume designer Ann Roth.
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The characters from the book who don't appear in this movie are Julie's friend Mary Krull, Sally's celebrity friend Oliver St. Ives, and Richard's publisher Walter Hardy, all from the Clarissa segment of the book. In this movie, some of Hardy's dialogue was given to the flower clerk, while the rest are completely erased from the story.
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Michael Cunningham: Clarissa (Meryl Streep) walks past the author on her way to the flower shop.
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Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman never met during the shoot and only got together after the production wrapped.
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hours - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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