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Owen Wilson’s Nose (And 9 Other Hollywood Imperfections Explained)

So you're just hanging out, watching a movie with a bunch of friends - nothing unusual to these proceedings at all. And then, woah, you're suddenly distracted. And not because the movie is bad and your attention is waning and you find it hard to sit still for two hours, but because you've noticed something about an actor on-screen. Is that thing you've noticed actually part of them, or is it something they've adopted for the sake of the movie? Because Owen Wilson's nose really does look like that, but Brad Pitt's neck scar in Inglourious Basterds is just part of an unexplained backstory.

10) Sean Bean

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You’ll no doubt know of the old joke about Sean Bean dying in nearly every one of his roles – which is all the more amusing since he’s had his fair share of scrapes in real life, too, and lived to tell the tale.

For instance, he was once involved in a bar fight after someone made lewd comments about his then-girlfriend, Playboy model April Summers. Bean ended up with his arm stabbed with a broken glass. Did he call for an ambulance? No, of course not. He told the bar staff he was OK and simply ordered another drink.

The scar that’s most obvious in his movies, though, is the small one above his left eye. He got this while filming an action scene with Harrison Ford in Patriot Games. While fighting on a speedboat, Ford accidentally caught Bean over the eye with a boat hook. Ouch!

Tell us, which of these Hollywood curiosities did or didn’t you know about? Got anymore of interest for us? Let us know in the comments section below.

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