Atlantic Trivia: Poor Form and Banned Books
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Three more trivia reps for you today—don’t forget to hydrate after.
And by the way, did you know that Charlie Sheen was at one point considered for the titular role in the above film? “Can you imagine?” Megan asks, encouraging us to consider how the movie might have differed with a bona fide bad boy rather than a “paragon of low-stakes disobedience.”
In the end, Sheen got his cameo as (hint!) a delinquent teen detained at a police station—and leaned Method-style into the role: He slept through his alarm on his shooting day and arrived an hour late to set.
Until tomorrow!
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Three more trivia reps for you today—don’t forget to hydrate after.
And by the way, did you know that Charlie Sheen was at one point considered for the titular role in the above film? “Can you imagine?” Megan asks, encouraging us to consider how the movie might have differed with a bona fide bad boy rather than a “paragon of low-stakes disobedience.”
In the end, Sheen got his cameo as (hint!) a delinquent teen detained at a police station—and leaned Method-style into the role: He slept through his alarm on his shooting day and arrived an hour late to set.
Until tomorrow!
Find previous questions here, and to get Atlantic Trivia in your inbox every day, sign up for The Atlantic Daily. If you think up a question yourself, send it my way via [email protected].