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TIL Brian Helgeland, the director of A Knight's Tale, had the cast arrive in Prague a month early to rehearse & bond. Although Heath Ledger noted that it was mostly to bond, "we just spent a month drinking together. So rehearsals were just drinking & getting to know each other...we hit all the bars"

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