Line #5 Trivia/Sicario


1	* ActorInspiredElement: While Alejandro is frequently silent in the movie, he initially had more lines. "In the original script, the character explained his background several times to Kate," Creator/BenicioDelToro said. "And that gave me information about who this guy was, but it felt a little stiff to have someone you just met fifteen minutes ago suddenly telling you what happened to him and who he is." Working with Creator/DenisVilleneuve, Del Toro began cutting some of his dialogue to preserve the mystery of who his character is; Villeneuve estimated they cut 90% of what Del Toro was originally intended to say by screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. Like Del Toro, Villeneuve saw power in stripping the character down to a brooding silence, stating that dialogue belongs to plays and "movies are about movement, character, and presence, and Benicio had all that."
2	* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/JoshBrolin agreed to star in the film, soely because he wanted to work with Roger Deakins again.
3	* CaliforniaDoubling: Mexico City standing in as Juarez as the actual city was too dangerous to be filmed.
4	** All the scenes taking place in Arizona, and any scenes taking place in rural Mexico, were all filmed in New Mexico.
5	* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/EmilyBlunt was sick with the stomach flu (though she insists that she didn't experience diarrhea) during the border scene, so her look of nervousness was a result of her illness.
6	* ExecutiveMeddling: Averted. The studio originally wanted the main character to be male, but was refused.
7	* FakeAmerican:
8	** Creator/EmilyBlunt and Creator/DanielKaluuya, who portray FBI agents Kate Macer and Reggie Wayne, are British. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as Blunt is now a US/UK dual citizen.
9	** Creator/VictorGarber, who portrays their boss Dave Jennings, is Canadian.
10	* FakeNationality: Alejandro is implied to be either of Mexican or Colombian origin. Creator/BenicioDelToro, is Puerto Rican.
11	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Kate mentions that she is childless. Creator/EmilyBlunt started filming four months after she delivered her daughter, Hazel.
12	* MethodActing: Creator/EmilyBlunt met with four different FBI agents to influence her performance.
13	* ThrowItIn: When the team has entered the tunnel, Creator/EmilyBlunt hits her head on the top of the tunnel. Director Creator/DenisVilleneuve said in an interview that he left that take in since it added realness to the mission and the film itself.
14	* WagTheDirector:: There was a [[http://alternateending.co.uk/blog.php?post=alternate-ending-sicario slightly different]] ending in the original version of the screenplay, with Alejandro choosing to [[spoiler: spare Fausto's family]] and [[spoiler: physically humiliate Kate in the ending scene by lifting up her shirt and pointing out all of the bruises he gave her in their earlier confrontation]]. Creator/DenisVilleneuve, Creator/EmilyBlunt, and Creator/BenicioDelToro were all dissatisfied with how this played out, so they changed it to better fit how they felt the characters would act in the situations.

Context Trivia / Sicario