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Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• This film was made over a 17-year period. The Roberto Benigni and Steven Wright segment was filmed in 1987. The Tom Waits and Iggy Pop segment was shot in 1992.
  
  
• As Jim Jarmusch, together with Tom Waits and John Lurie, is a member of the Lee Marvin look-alike club "Sons of Lee Marvin", a portrait is hanging over Meg and Jack White during the "Tesla" section.
  
  
• Tom Waits improvised his excuse for being late for his rendezvous with Iggy Pop. In it he explains that he had to perform "roadside surgery" to deliver a baby in the back of a car. Waits is known for toying with journalists and is fond of altering his place of birth (barn, elevator, etc.). In one such interview he claimed to have been born in the back of a taxi cab.
  
  
• Because they are very health-conscious, RZA and The GZA (credited as GZA) do not drink coffee. So they are drinking tea in the film.
  
  
• Jim Jarmusch usually took no more than two to three takes for each scene in this film, in which most actors improvised parts of the conversation.
  
  
• Jim Jarmusch shot the scene in which Cate Blanchett plays a double role on two different days. Apparently, and for obvious reasons, this was done so that Blanchett would have the opportunity to portray two totally different characters.
  
  
• In the "Twins" segment with Joie Lee and Cinqué Lee, along with Steve Buscemi, Joie paraphrases a quote commonly attributed to Elvis Presley, "The only thing a nigger can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes." Despite popular belief, Elvis himself, along with several of his friends and family members, have vehemently denied that he ever said this.
  
  
• In the "Those Things'll Kill Ya" there is, hanging on the wall, a picture of Henry Silva, famous for his portrayals of gangsters and evil characters.
  
  

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