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Roger Cormier\u00a0<\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>present 15 Rapid Facts About Speed<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 4. STEPHEN BALDWIN TURNED DOWN PLAYING JACK.<\/span><\/strong> 5. HALLE BERRY TURNED DOWN PLAYING ANNIE.<\/span><\/strong> 13. IT TESTED THROUGH THE ROOF.<\/span><\/strong> Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 15 Rapid Facts About Speed.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 4. STEPHEN BALDWIN TURNED DOWN PLAYING JACK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13801,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13800\/revisions\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nIn addition to that Baldwin brother, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Wesley Snipes, and Woody Harrelson were all approached to play the lead. Director Jan de Bont thought Keanu Reeves was a great fit after seeing him in Point Break<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nBerry wasn\u2019t interested, nor were Meryl Streep or Kim Basinger. Yost wanted Ellen DeGeneres for the role (DeGeneres recently claimed she was never officially asked.) Demolition Man<\/em> star Sandra Bullock won the role, and was paid $200,000.<\/p>\n
\nAt a test screening, some audience members walked up the aisles backward so that they would miss as little of the movie as possible before going to the bathroom. It helped convince 20th Century Fox to move up the release date from August to June.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"