History Trivia / Sharpe

** Jason Salkey (Rifleman Harris) met his wife Natasha while she worked as a translator for the film crew during filming in Ukraine. They are still married and have a son, Daniel.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/SeanBean met his third wife Abigail Cruttenden on the set. She played his second wife who eventually cheated on him and stole all his money. The marriage lasted three years.

** Cooper was supposed to have appeared as a full-time Chosen Man and was originally going to be a long living member of Sharpe's Chosen Men, presumably to feature in either ''[[Recap/SharpeS4E3SharpesMission Sharpe's Mission]]'' or ''[[Recap/SharpeS5E3SharpesWaterloo Sharpe's Waterloo]]''. He was to have been and would have been the last of Sharpe's Chosen Men along with Harper to survive Waterloo, but plans changed when Michael Mears was called onto other films. His role-play was replaced with Richard Rutherford-Moore playing as Rifleman Moore, a new Chosen Man, whom had no dialogue.

* CreatorsFavourite: Creator/SeanBean named Richard Sharpe as his favourite role:

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/BernardCornwell named ''Sharpe's Siege'' as his personal favourite book in the series.
* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/SeanBean named Richard Sharpe as his favourite role:

** Cooper was supposed to have appeared as a full-time Chosen Man and was originally going to be a long living member of Sharpe's Chosen Men, presumably to feature in either ''Sharpe's Mission'' or ''Sharpe's Waterloo''. He was to have been and would have been the last of Sharpe's Chosen Men along with Harper to survive Waterloo, but plans changed when Michael Mears was called onto other films. His role-play was replaced with Richard Rutherford-Moore playing as Rifleman Moore, a new Chosen Man, whom had no dialogue.

* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/JulianFellowes appeared in ''Sharpe's Rifles'' as Major Dunnet and later appeared in ''Sharpe's Regiment'' as the Prince Regent.

* CreatorBacklash: Hugh Fraser hated the prosthetic nose he had to wear to recreate Wellington's distinct beaky appearance.

* TheOtherDarrin: Wellesley was first played by David Troughton, who departed after ''Sharpe's Eagle'' due to poor health. Wellesley's elevation to the peerage not only changes his name to Wellington, but his actor to Hugh Fraser (the one who played Captain Hastings from ''Series/{{Poirot}}'').

* AbilityOverAppearance: Sharpe is played by 5'9" blond Yorkshireman Creator/SeanBean whereas in the novels he's described as over six feet tall, dark haired and a Londoner. However Bean owned the role so thoroughly that Creator/BernardCornwell retconned the character as having spent a large part of his teenage years in Yorkshire to explain his accent. Creator/PaulMcGann (who was originally cast as Sharpe) bears a closer physical resemblance to the character, although he's even shorter at 5'8".

* AbilityOverAppearance: Sharpe is played by 5'9" blond Yorkshireman Creator/SeanBean whereas in the novels he's described as over six feet tall, dark haired and a Londoner. However Bean owned the role so thoroughly that Creator/BernardCornwell retconned the character as having spent a large part of his teenage years in Yorkshire to explain his accent.

* {{Blooper}}: In ''[[Recap/SharpeS1E2SharpesEagle Sharpe's Eagle]]'', as Sir Henry says "The South Essex will advance slowly and with caution, Major Lennox!" Hogan's costume changes from a blue jacket to a white one.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The series was mostly filmed in Ukraine and later Turkey, owing to the cheapness of labour there, despite being set msotly in Spain and Portugal (early episodes) and France (later episodes).

* CaliforniaDoubling: ''[[Recap/SharpeS1E1SharpesRifles Sharpe's Rifles]]'' had Ukraine doubling as Spain. In fact pretty much all the series were filmed in either Ukraine or Turkey. Presumably labour is cheaper there.
** That's actually pretty much true. In a mostly unknown 'making of' documentary for the series, they talk about the awesome Ukranian stunt men who are cheap, plentiful and absolutely insane. Given that the core cast is actually pretty small (6 riflemen, 2 wives, Wellington, Hogan plus a handful of speaking villains du joure) and that any part of the Europen countryside (where all the battles are fought) looks so similar it makes no odds, it makes a LOT more sense to move the production to the stuntmen, rather than transporting and accommodating 200+ psychopathic men and horses to wherever they were needed.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Cooper was supposed to have appeared as a full-time Chosen Man and was originally going to be a long living member of Sharpe's Chosen Men, presumably to feature in either ''Sharpe's Mission'' or ''Sharpe's Waterloo''. He was to have been and would have been the last of Sharpe's Chosen Men along with Harper to survive Waterloo, but plans changed when Michael Mears was called onto other films. His role-play was replaced with Richard Rutherford-Moore playing as Rifleman Moore, a new Chosen Man, whom had no dialogue.