“The Others” Trivia

Erika Berlin and Mental Floss present 10 Spirited Facts About The Others.  Here are three of my favorites (beware of spoilers!)…

6. KIDMAN QUIT THE FILM DURING REHEARSALS.
During rehearsals and pre-production, the subject matter—and particularly [SPOILER] Grace’s killing of her children—was giving Kidman such intense nightmares that she quit the project. “At one point I didn’t want to make the film because I couldn’t even go there emotionally,” she has said. “It was still very difficult to exist in that state … when you’re doing an intense film the boundaries blur.” Fortunately, Amenábar and his team were able to convince her to return to the film, but “I was so glad to step out of her in the end,” Kidman said.

10. AMENÁBAR APPEARS IN ONE OF THE OLD MOURNING “BOOK OF THE DEAD” PHOTOS.
Like Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan before him, Amenábar found a way to make a brief cameo in his horror flick. “Half of the photographs [in the film] are real and half are fakes,” Amenábar said of the postmortem photographs Grace finds in the attic storage room. “We asked for originals and we lost them.” Because of that, replicas were made, and the director appears in one of them.

4. IT MADE HISTORY AT THE GOYA AWARDS.
The Others earned a total of eight Goya Awards, including Best Film. It’s the first film to earn Spain’s highest film honor in which not one word of Spanish is spoken.