20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Usual Suspects

18. The Cast Literally Couldn't Understand Benicio Del Toro

Ususal Suspects
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Benicio del Toro is an easy show-stealer as Fred Fenster, who is surely best remembered for his thick, scarcely understandable accent.

And though this simply seems to be part of the character as written, it was actually something del Toro himself came up with during shooting, to the extent that the cast literally couldn't understand him.

And so, when the suspects are held in jail together, and Hockney (Kevin Pollak) asks the group what Fenster just said, that was actor Kevin Pollak expressing genuine befuddlement at del Toro's pronunciation.

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