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Newcomers to the cast included Jorma Taccone, Shea Whigham, Rachel Dratch and Jason Schwartzman, several of them coming from a comedy background, which fits given how much of the film's humour comes from small, quirky side characters rather than just the main heroes.
A throwaway dream sequence in The Rickshank Rickdemption, where Rick rants about a 1998 McDonald's promo tie-in dipping sauce, turned into one of the strangest fandom moments in TV history. When McDonald's actually brought Szechuan Sauce back for one day in October 2017, the tiny supply sent to stores caused genuine chaos, with police called out to calm crowds chanting for more.
While a Marvel production was shooting nearby, Samuel L. Jackson wandered onto the Los Pollos Hermanos set fully dressed as Nick Fury and asked if he could sit in the background as a joke cameo. Vince Gilligan had to turn him down — no Nick Fury eating fried chicken while Walt and Gus have their standoff, sadly.
Normally the game scolds you and resets the checkpoint the instant you turn a gun on an ally, and Reznov is no exception, at least at first. Players eventually noticed that shooting him during his introduction in Vorkuta gets the usual 'you betrayed your comrades' warning, but doing it in any of his later appearances triggers different dialogue entirely, a subtle nod to the fact he isn't really there anymore.
While guarding the Falcon during New Alexandria, keep listening and you'll catch Sergeant Buck's voice chiming in over the radio, on loan from ODST. He also shows up as one of the selectable Firefight voices, so his lines followed the game long after the campaign wrapped.
According to DJ Pooh himself, it was his encouragement that got his friend Young Maylay to audition for the role of CJ in the first place. He talked about it years later, crediting his own enthusiasm for the series as part of what pushed his friends toward Rockstar.
The giant statues found in Sovngarde, the Nordic realm of the honored dead, will quietly rotate to face the player whenever they aren't being watched directly, a subtle detail that most players never catch happening in real time.
Craig Fairbrass pulled double duty on this one, voicing both Gaz and a character called Wallcroft, before going on to become a very different fan favourite as Ghost in Modern Warfare 2.
Season one traveled across Hungary, Poland, and Spain, but the pandemic made that kind of globe-trotting impossible for season two. So the entire season, including the witchers' stronghold Kaer Morhen, ended up being built and filmed at Arborfield Film Studios, a converted former army barracks outside London.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and retired Marine lieutenant colonel Oliver North, of Iran-Contra fame, both appear in Black Ops II's campaign, with North voicing his own character. It's a strange bit of casting even by Call of Duty's usual standards, mixing real-world figures with controversial pasts directly into the fiction.
