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Ralph Fiennes was originally attached to this project when Oliver Stone was still slated to direct, according to an interview with Fiennes on Charlie Rose (December 28, 2000).
All the villages in exotic locations were authentic. The crews installed real running water for the grateful villagers. Some of them had never even seen a white man until then.
This is the movie that inspired its lead actress Angelina Jolie to become interested and active in third world aid and relief work causes.
Amputees shown in the scene at Khmer Rouge were actual land-mine victims.