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TIL Before shooting Dogma, Kevin Smith warned Jason Mewes that he needed to be on point due to the involvement of actors such as Alan Rickman. Mewes then memorized the dialogue for every character in the entire screenplay. His motivation? Because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude.”

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