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6. All Main Cast Members Learned Card Throwing From A Master Magician - Now You See Me
Though Now You See Me's magic tricks rely on a good deal of visual effects wizardry, the main magician cast members - Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco - did actually receive training to convincingly handle and throw cards.
Veteran magician David Kwong was hired as the movie's head magic consultant, spending much of his time, among other things, teaching card-throwing to the cast. Dave Franco, who was apparently Kwong's strongest student, said of the training:
"Our first day of rehearsal wasn't us dissecting the script, it was me in a room throwing cards and trying to cut a banana in half."
It's especially surprising that the cast were given extensive card training considering how most viewers would surely assume the throwing was mostly achieved through either digital assistance or stand-ins.