Trivia / The Interpreter

• Awesome, Dear Boy: Nicole Kidman signed on without having read any script.
• California Doubling: As mentioned above this movie was actually filmed inside the U.N. but originally was set to be filmed in Toronto, but due to the high cost of replicating the U.N. General Assembly Room for the set, the producers renewed the requiest in trying to get the U.N.'s permission to film the movie there.
• Fake Nationality: In every sense, with the fake African country of Matobo - Nicole Kidman plays Silvia with a Afrikaans accent. None of the other actors playing Africans are from an African country either.
• What Could Have Been: Several Real Life diplomats who were at the UN during the filming expressed interest in playing themselves, but the UN forbade it.

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