10 Movie Secrets They Didn't Want You To Know
Paul Giamatti's lazy eye in The Holdovers was a big production mystery.
The art of filmmaking is, at its best, pure magic, where audiences are left wondering precisely how the director and their crew pulled a given scene off.
And sometimes, filmmakers aren't too keen to divulge the inside baseball info about the sleight of hand in question.
After all, what better way to keep a movie in the public's mind than a tantalising mystery or secret that's just never resolved? By giving it away, you're giving viewers one less thing to think and talk about.
And so, where these 10 movie secrets are concerned - ranging from special effects tricks to casting choices, and even still-unearthed Easter eggs - those in charge haven't willingly given the game away.
Now, a few of these secrets were eventually revealed, perhaps against the wishes of those at the top, yet the majority remain a head-scratching mystery to this very day.
From dead-serious top-secret production elements to more hilariously light-hearted enigmas which the cast have themselves joked about, those involved clearly relished keeping a lid on these classified slivers of information, no matter if they leaked out one way or another in the end.
10. Who Played Blofeld - From Russia With Love
James Bond's most iconic foe, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, first showed up on-screen in 007's second cinematic outing, From Russia with Love, where fans glimpsed him briefly as the shadowy, faceless SPECTRE mastermind referred to as "Number 1."
Only Blofeld's hands and the back of his head are shown, and to heighten the intrigue surrounding the character's identity, both the actor who portrayed him on set - Anthony Dawson - and the character's voice actor - Eric Pohlmann - went uncredited.
In the film's end credits, Blofeld's presence is simply credited to "?," and though Dawson and Pohlmann returned to portray the character in the fourth Bond film Thunderball, in this instance the character was entirely absent from the credits.
It was only in the next film, You Only Live Twice, that a decidedly more famous actor, the great Donald Pleasence, was cast in the part without any smoke-and-mirrors subterfuge.
Evidently, Bond producers didn't want audiences to know who was effectively playing Blofeld stand-ins until they'd settled on a name talent to play the part.