History Trivia / SisterAct

* AlanSmithee: The first film's credited writer, Joseph Howard, is actually a pseudonym for Paul Rudnick, who took his name off it after it was heavily rewritten (it would, ironically, go on to be the most financially successful film that Rudnick ever worked on). The finished product was written primarily by none other than Creator/CarrieFisher (who was one of Hollywood's major script doctors in TheNineties), but she didn't want credit either, resulting in Rudnick opting to use a pseudonym in lieu of his actual name.
* BTeamSequel: The director of the first film, Emile Ardolino, suffered from AIDS and was replaced by Creator/BillDuke for the sequel. Ardolino died one month before the sequel came out the following year.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Mostly averted, with most of the main scenes shot on location in Reno and San Francisco, however a couple of the inner church scenes were filmed in a different church in Hollywood. [[note]]The church used in the film was St. Paul's Catholic Church, which was located in upper middle class Noe Valley. Some of the surrounding buildings were redressed during filming to give the appearance of a run down neighborhood.[[/note]]

** All TV airings of ''Sister Act 2'' remove the credits sequence where the entire cast sings and dances to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".

* ThrowItIn: In the basketball scene in the sequel, Lauryn Hill started rapping spontaneously, which wasn't in the script. So they left it in.

** Creator/BetteMidler was originally considered for the role of Deloris, but couldn't take it because of her busy schedule. The scene where the mobsters are trying to identify her apart from the other nuns originally would have had her SizableSemiticNose be the giveaway, but the scene was barely altered with Whoopi Goldber's casting. ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' notes that this makes the mobsters' failure to immediately single out the only black nun make them look like {{politically correct villain}}s.

** All TV airings of the movie also have a few edits to remove profanity. As Deloris is wrapping up "Heat Wave" at the beginning, her line, "You don't give a shit." is censored with [[SoundEffectBleep microphone feedback]]. When Eddie introduces her to the Mother Superior, her line "I don't give a shit what you say." is redubbed to, "Don't give me that." During her first meal with the nuns, her line "It tastes like [[CurseCutShort sh--]]" is edited to remove the partial swear (Freeform airings cut the entire sentence).

* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Isis Carmen Jones plays young Goldberg perfectly from the physical similarities to the mannerisms. She also plays a young Guinan (adult Guinan is played by Goldberg) in the episode "Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals".

* ReferencedBy: ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "Ruthless, Toothless and a Week of Bed Rest", trying to convince a hesitant customer so he can get back to the secret gambling room, Georgie says that Goldberg as a singing nun is enough to make the movie worthwhile, and rings up the customer.

* ReferencedBy: ''Serise/YoungSheldon'': In "Ruthless, Toothless and a Week of Bed Rest", trying to convince a hesitant customer so he can get back to the secret gambling room, Georgie says that Goldberg as a singing nun is enough to make the movie worthwhile, and rings up the customer.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Mostly averted, with most of the main scenes shot on location in Reno and San Francisco, however a couple of the inner church scenes were filmed in a different church in Hollywood.

* EditedForSyndication: When the movie airs on Freeform, it is edited down to two hours with commercials. This results in the removal of multiple scenes, such as Deloris sneaking a tomato from the garden and the nuns eating ice cream together, as well as shortening the execution scene near the start and some of the chase sequences.

* RecursiveAdaptation: The movie received a stage musical adaptation in 2015, and Creator/WhoopiGoldberg starred in a short run of it in London. This time, [[MythologyGag she played the Mother Superior]].

** Creator/BetteMidler was originally considered for the role of Deloris, but couldn't take it because of her busy schedule.

* BTeamSequel: The director of the first film, Emile Ardolino, suffered from AIDS and was replaced by Creator/BillDuke for the sequel. Ardolino died one month before the sequel came out.

** All TV airings of the movie also have a few edits to remove profanity. As Deloris is wrapping up "Heat Wave" at the beginning, her line, "You don't give a shit." is censored with [[SoundEffectBleep microphone feedback]]. When Eddie introduces her to the Mother Superior, her line "I don't give a shit." is redubbed to, "Don't give me that." During her first meal with the nuns, her line "It tastes like [[CurseCutShort sh--]]" is edited to remove the partial swear (Freeform airings cut the entire sentence).
* NonSingingVoice: Andrea Robinson dubbed Creator/WendyMakkena's singing. Averted by the rest of the cast, who all did their own singing, including Creator/WhoopiGoldberg. However, this creates another problem in that Goldberg's thin, reedy voice is hardly credible even for a Vegas lounge singer (a relic of the part being writen for Creator/BetteMidler).
* RealLifeRelative: Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's daughter Alex Martin appears as one of the children - saying the "Yo mama" joke about Skittles.

* UncreditedRole: Creator/CarrieFisher was an uncredited script doctor for the screenplay. Creator/NancyMeyers and Creator/RobertHarling also did work on the script.

** Lt. Eddie Souther was originally written for a white actor and was intended to be a potential love interest for Deloris. When Creator/WhoopiGoldberg was cast as the lead, Disney executives were worried that audiences would not accept an interracial romance (though apparently having a white boyfriend as the main antagonist was a-okay). The studio attempted to have Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos cast as Souther as a compromise. Creator/BillNunn was eventually cast, but eventually any notion that Deloris and Eddie had more-than-platonic feelings for each other was omitted from the script.

* AlanSmithee: The first film's credited writer, Joseph Howard, is actually a pseudonym for Paul Rudnick, who took his name off it after it was heavily rewritten (it would, ironically, go on to be the most financially successful film that Rudnick ever worked on). The finished product was written primarily by none other than Creator/CarrieFisher (who's made herself a little known career as a script doctor), but she didn't want credit either, resulting in Rudnick opting to use a pseudonym in lieu of his actual name.

** All TV airings of the movie also have a few edits to remove profanity. As Deloris is wrapping up "Heat Wave" at the beginning, her line, "You don't give a shit." is censored with [[SoundEffectBleep microphone feedback]]. When Eddie introduces her to the Mother Superior, her line "I don't give a shit." is redubbed to, "Don't give me that." During her first meal with the nuns, her line "It takes like [[CurseCutShort sh--]]" is edited to remove the partial swear (Freeform airings cut the entire sentence).

* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Isis Carmen Jones plays young Goldberg perfectly from the physical similarities to the mannerisms. She also plays a young Guinan(adult Guinan is played by Goldberg) in the episode "Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals".

* AlanSmithee: The first film's credited writer, Joseph Howard, is actually a pseudonym for Paul Rudnick, who took his name off it after it was heavily rewritten (it would, ironically, go on to be the most financially successful film that Rudnick ever worked on). The finished product was written primarily by none other than Creator/CarrieFisher (who's made herself a little known caree as a script doctor), but she didn't want credit either, resulting in Rudnick opting to use a pseudonym in lieu of his actual name.

* RecursiveAdaptation: The movie received a stage musical adaptation in 2015, and Creator/WhoopiGolberg starred in a short run of it in London. This time, [[MythologyGag she played the Mother Superior]].

* UncreditedRole: Creator/CarrieFisher was an uncredited script doctor for the screenplay. Creator/NancyMeyers and Robert Harling also did work on the script.

* UncreditedRole: Creator/CarrieFisher was an uncredited script doctor for the screenplay. Creator/NancyMyers and Robert Harling also did work on the script.

* NonSingingVoice: Andrea Robinson dubbed Creator/WendyMakkena's singing. Averted by the rest of the cast, who all did their own singing, including Whoopi Goldberg. However, this creates another problem in that Goldberg's thin, reedy voice is hardly credible even for a Vegas lounge singer (a relic of the part being writen for singer-actress Bette Midler).

* UncreditedRole: Creator/CarrieFisher was an uncredited script doctor for the screenplay.

* ActorAllusion:
** Isis Carmen Jones plays the young Deloris in the opening scene. She had played a de-aged version of Whoopi Goldberg on an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
** One of the neighbourhood teenagers is Desreta Jackson - who played the younger version of Whoopi in ''Film/TheColorPurple''.

* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Whoopi Goldberg only appeared in the sequel so that Disney would finance her dream project ''Sarafina''.
* RealLifeRelative: Whoopi Goldberg's daughter Alex Martin appears as one of the children - saying the "Yo mama" joke about Skittles.
* RecursiveAdaptation: The movie received a stage musical adaptation in 2015, and Whoopi Golberg starred in a short run of it in London. This time, [[MythologyGag she played the Mother Superior]].

** Lauren Holly auditioned for the role of Sister Mary Robert.

** Lt. Eddie Souther was originally written for a white actor and was intended to be a potential love interest for Deloris. When Whoopi Goldberg was cast as the lead, Disney executives were worried that audiences would not accept an interracial romance (though apparently having a white boyfriend as the main antagonist was a-okay). The studio attempted to have Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos cast as Souther as a compromise. African-American actor Bill Nunn was eventually cast, but eventually any notion that Deloris and Eddie had more-than-platonic feelings for each other was omitted from the script.

* AlanSmithee: The first film's credited writer, Joseph Howard, is actually a pseudonym for Paul Rudnick, who took his name off it after it was heavily rewritten (it would, ironically, go on to be the most financially successful film that Rudnick ever worked on). The finished product was written primarily by none other than Creator/CarrieFisher, but she didn't want credit either, resulting in Rudnick opting to use a pseudonym in lieu of his actual name.

* NonSingingVoice: Andrea Robinson dubbed Creator/WendyMakkena's singing. Averted by the rest of the cat, who all did their own singing, including Whoopi Goldberg. However, this creates another problem in that Goldberg's thin, reedy voice is hardly credible even for a Vegas lounge singer (a relic of the part being writen for singer-actress Bette Midler).

* EditedForSyndication: When the movies air on Freeform, it is edited down to two hours with commercials. This results in the removal of multiple scenes, such as Deloris sneaking a tomato from the garden and the nuns eating ice cream together, as well as shortening the execution scene near the start and some of the chase sequences.

* EditedForSyndication: When the movies airs on Freeform, it is edited down to two hours with commercials. This results in the removal of multiple scenes, such as Deloris sneaking a tomato from the garden and the nuns eating ice cream together, as well as shortening the execution scene near the start and some of the chase sequences.

* NonSingingVoice: Andrea Robinson dubbed Creator/WendyMakkena's singing.