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  • All right, guys, I'm going to level with you.

  • We have no solid reasoning for doing this one, except that we just wanted to.

  • We have no idea how you guys feel about this movie, but

  • we love it, so we're doing it.

  • Here are seven things you didn't know abouton, aka The Professional,

  • probably.

  • (Music)

  • Many of you may know thatonwas inspired by Jean Reno's character in Luc Besson's

  • 1990 film La Femme Nikita.

  • In that one, Reno plays another cleaner named Victor.

  • >> Victor (Foreign).

  • >> But what you may not know is the

  • overall story ofon's relationship with Mathilda is based on Besson's real life

  • relationship with his then-girlfriend, the French actress known as Maiwenn.

  • She played the diva in his next film, The Fifth Element, and here she is inon.

  • >> I'll talk to you later, sweetie,

  • okay? >> Anyway,

  • Maiwenn met Luc Besson when she was only 12 years old but he was 29 at the time.

  • Sound familiar?

  • Nonetheless, Maiwenn says that she was in love with Besson by the time she was 15.

  • By then, he would have been 32.

  • So the story ofon and

  • Mathilda isn't shocking to Maiwenn because she feels that it's her story.

  • And Maiwenn isn't the only person who doesn't see the film as shocking.

  • >> A girl's first time is very important.

  • It determines the rest of our life sexually.

  • >> Even though the film was fairly

  • controversial in the US, the French generally didn't get bent out of

  • shape abouton and Mathilda's relationship.

  • I'm sure plenty of you have strong opinions and

  • a whole lot to say about it in the comments.

  • So while you all do that, I'm just going to move on to our next thing.

  • (Sound) >> Let's play a game.

  • >> What kind of game?

  • >> You know this part, where Mathilda and

  • on play charades?

  • Well, aside from Gene Kelly, which was written into the script, all of the stars

  • Mathilda impersonates came from Natalie Portman doing them in her audition.

  • Luc Besson asked her what impressions she could do and

  • these were the three she came up with.

  • She'd been a fan of Madonna in real life so that one was no brainer and

  • she knew of Charlie Chaplin just from watching movies at home.

  • But the best story is Marilyn Monroe, and

  • it's the best because she's not actually doing an impression of Marilyn Monroe.

  • She's doing an impression of Mike Myers doing an impression of Marilyn Monroe.

  • >> Happy birthday Mr.

  • President. >> Natalie Portman had

  • seen Mike Meyers do the Happy Birthday, Mr. President shtick in Wayne's World and

  • thought it was hilarious, obviously, and it stuck with her.

  • So she basically just ripped it off for

  • heron audition. >> Mr.

  • President. >> This is just one of those impressions

  • that never has to be particularly good to be still pretty good,

  • you know, like Christopher Walken or Seinfeld or Arnold.

  • Now get to the chopper so we can move onto our next thing and

  • I can stop doing these goddamn voices.

  • Next thing!

  • (Sound) Filming onon was split between the U.S.

  • and France.

  • All ofon's apartment interiors are on a set at Epernay Studios.

  • But parts like this, in the hallways and on the stairs,

  • were done at the famous Chelsea Hotel on 23rd Street in New York.

  • So, right here,

  • on has actually gone from New York to Paris in a matter of seconds.

  • But going back to the Chelsea Hotel, it's famous for artists like Andy Warhol,

  • Dylan Thomas and Mark Twain staying there, as well as Sid Vicious, who,

  • coincidentally, Gary Oldman played in his first major movie role in Sid and Nancy.

  • (Laugh) >> And

  • that is (Sound) Our obligatory bonus thing you didn't know.

  • (Sound) >> I think we can all agree that the guns

  • inon are pretty major.

  • Buton went into production just a few months after

  • Brandon Lee was killed while filming The Crow.

  • The tragedy cast a certain apprehension over the entireon production, And

  • not least of all,

  • over Natalie Portman's parents. >> (Sound)

  • How's that?

  • >> Since Mathilda handles so

  • many weapons in the film Portman's parents hired a weapons expert to teach her how to

  • assemble the guns herself, how to check to make sure there wasn't live ammo in there,

  • how to tell the difference between a bullet and a blank,

  • all of that kind of stuff.

  • So, for the most part, when we see Mathilda doing her gun chores in the film,

  • Natalie Portman pretty much knew what she was doing for real.

  • And since she was only 11 at the time that makes her, pretty much,

  • the most badass tween ever. >> A little left, please.

  • >> I mean,

  • (Bleep) I was still wetting the bed. >> Ahh!

  • Ahh! Ahh!

  • (Sound) >> Learning how to handle guns properly

  • and safely wasn't the only requirement that Natalie Portman's parents had for

  • her participation inon.

  • They also took issue with Mathilda's smoking.

  • In the end they worked out a pretty detailed agreement with Besson on how

  • the whole underage smoking thing was going to work.

  • For one, we could see no more than five cigarettes in Mathilda's

  • hand throughout the film.

  • Two, they couldn't be real cigarettes.

  • Third, we could never see Matilda actually inhale.

  • That's why we only see her bring the cigarette to her lips, but

  • it always cuts away before we see her take a drag.

  • The final rule was that the Portmans wanted Mathilda to quit smoking during

  • the course of the film, which she does. >> I want you to

  • stop smoking, okay? >> I wonder if this means

  • that the Portmans should get co-writing credit.

  • (Sound) >> What's happening out

  • there? >> Okay,

  • let's talk about this old lady here in the hallway.

  • And I'm not being rude, by the way.

  • She is actually credited as Old Lady.

  • The actress is the late Jessie Keosian, which I'm almost certain you didn't know.

  • But that's not the thing you didn't know for this thing you didn't know.

  • This thing is about how that actress playing the old lady

  • was also Woody Allen's high school biology teacher.

  • Crazy weird coincidence, right?

  • And I don't have anything else to add here, so let's move on.

  • (Sound) Léon is easily one of Luc Besson's best

  • works and that makes it really hard to believe how quickly he wrote the script.

  • It took only one month for him to writeon.

  • If it only took him 30 days to writeon then he must have spent just 30 minutes

  • writing that piece of (Bleep) Lucy, am I right?

  • (Laugh) Anyway, that's a whole other thing I've got.

  • Besson had actually been working on The Fifth Element after La Femme Nikita but

  • the project was too big and was taking too long.

  • So he decided to take on something more manageable until

  • he could make The Fifth Element.

  • He spun off La Femme Nikita intoon, banged out the script and

  • invited Jean Reno to dinner once it was done.

  • After dinner, Besson and Maiwenn presented Reno with a gift.

  • And once Reno opened the box, it was the script foron.

  • Reno was so touched he actually started to tear up and

  • he told Besson, I'm already ready.

  • Turns out he was right.

  • Also turns out he was talking about the threesome they had that night.

  • That's a wrap on this episode so let us know if you liked this one and

  • if you loveon.

  • Thanks for watching and be sure to check out cinefix.com and subscribe for

  • more truish things about movies and sometimes people doing impressions of

  • Mike Myers doing another impression, right here on Things You Didn't Know.

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