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Janet Burns<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/b>present 12 Timeless Facts About 12 Monkeys<\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 6. WILLIS TOOK A PAY CUT FOR THE GIG, AND EVEN OFFERED TO SHAVE HIS HEAD. \n 8. BRAD PITT UNDERWENT PSYCHIATRIC COACHING FOR THE ROLE.<\/span><\/strong> \n 9. PITT’S HARD WORK EARNED HIM A GOLDEN GLOBE, AND HIS FIRST OSCAR NOMINATION. Janet Burns and Mental_Floss present 12 Timeless Facts About 12 Monkeys. Here are three of my favorites… 6. WILLIS TOOK A PAY CUT FOR<\/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":[17,54,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505","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=14505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14507,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions\/14507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>As Den of Geek<\/a> reported, Willis and his co-star Madeleine Stowe both accepted substantially less than their usual pay rates for their roles in 12 Monkeys<\/em> in order to work with Gilliam. During the intensive filming process, it was Willis who came up with his character\u2019s signature hairstyle. \u201cIt was his idea to shave his head, and it changed him a lot,\u201d Gilliam said<\/a>. \u201cIt makes him much stronger, much more dangerous. He looks like a prisoner from a Soviet Gulag … Bruce has got one of the great architectural craniums in the world! It’s just a great, beautiful thing to photograph.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nDr. Laszlo Gyulai, who directs the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine\u2019s bipolar disorders unit, helped the then-up-and-coming actor to fine-tune his institutionalized character\u2019s mannerisms through the study of real mental illness. Gyulai told The New York Times <\/em>that films featuring psychiatric patients sometimes \u201cmake them look like lunatics, [while] many patients who are mentally ill are not crazy at all, particularly if they have depression or mood disorders.\u201d Legend has it that Gilliam put an extra and very genuine bit of tension into Pitt\u2019s performance by taking away his cigarettes on set, too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>12 Monkeys<\/em> made its splash at the box office just as Pitt\u2019s career was hitting overdrive, and his Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe win for Best Supporting Actor were among the actor\u2019s very first accolades. As the Manila Standard<\/em> reported, Pitt was \u201csurprised\u201d by his 1996 award, and kept his comments brief during the \u201cmoment of absolute terror\u201d in which he delivered his acceptance speech, stating: \u201cI’d like to thank the members of\u2014actually, the makers of Kaopectate. They’ve done a great service for their fellow man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"