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When Robert Downey Sr originally invited Salma Hayek to star in the film, she refused because she didn't want to play a Mexican. She didn't agree until the film was filmed again 8 years later.
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Robert Downey Sr had already completed the script for the film in the 1990s, but due to funding problems it has been unable to start filming, and Johnny Depp had planned to star in it.
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Many scenes in the film are completed through special effects of background painting to achieve a completely fictional scene that cannot be actually shot or does not exist at all.
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Because Los Angeles in the original novel has long since disappeared in the process of urbanization, the prop set simply reshaped Los Angeles during the Great Depression in South Africa.
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In order to appear in the film, Idina Menzel had to give up her Broadway performance .
Ask the Dust behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
Ask the Dust quotes
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Arturo Bandini: What does happiness mean to you Camilla?
Camilla: That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.
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Vera Rivkin: [Vera is half-asleep in her bed; as Arturo is leaving, he reaches down and takes her hand] You're very kind.