21 Fun Facts About Kingsman: The Secret Service to Keep You Entertained This Monday

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    Text - The skydiving scenes were shot in real life. Acting as stunt doubles were the Red Bull skydiving team, consisting of Andy Ford, Mike Carpenter, Steve Scott, Lucy Maycock, Chris Ivory, Dave Ruffell, Phil Curtis, Andy Duncan, Sean Freeman, Steve Howes, and Ramsey Kent, World-famous skydiving photographer Norman Kent was leading the execution of the shots. @poppingremlins
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    Text - @poppingremlins The pistol carried by the Kingsman, is actually a Soviet Tokarev TT-30 from pre-World War II. Designed and made by Cohort Film Services armory technician, the TT-30s were refinished and reblackened, and feature custom handmade grips, re-profiled slides, hammers, and frames, and an underbarrel shotgun attachment. They can also accept custom suppressors, which were also designed and made by Cohort. Six pistols and suppressors were made for the film.
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    Photo caption - poppingremlins In the film, Professor James Arnold is played by Mark Hamill. In the comic series, Hamill is the first celebrity kidnapped by Dr. Arnold.
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    Gentleman - @poppingremlins Many of the villatns in the James Bond franchise have had some form of physical dysfunction, difference, or abnormality. Samuel L. Jackson's character of Richmond Valentine was originally intended not to have a lisp, However, Jackson completed his first take with a lisp. Matthew Vaughn yelled "cut!", and talked to Jackson, who revealed to Vaughn that, prior to having an acting career, he actually had a lisp, which he eventually overcame. It was also jokingly remarked
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    Underwater - @poppingremligs Taron Egerton worked out very hard for months on end to get in shape for this film eventually developing six-pack abs for his shirtlessiscenes. He said that it required alifestyle change" for him and "total commitment to living acertain way and being very militant about what you eat He said he overall enjoyed the experience and would definitely do it again if there is a sequel. He was thrilled that his body was captured looking that way for the silver screen adding "
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    Photo caption - @poppingremlins Matthew Vaughn wanted the character of Merlin (Mark Strong) to have a Welsh accent, but Strong found the accent too challenging, and persuaded Vaughn to let him use a Scottish accent instead.
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    Photo caption - @poppingremlins Kingsman THE SECRET SE At the "Kingsman" press conference at the San Diego Comic-Con in August 2014, Samuel L. Jackson answered a reporter's cell phone, the table in front of the actors as it was recording their answers. Jackson stayed on the phone with the caller, to the great amusement of everyone in the room. which rang 1 &a-Sol
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    Eyewear - @poppingremlins Actor Colin Firth did eighty percent of his.own stunts, according to Stunt Coordinator and Second Unit Director Bradley James Allan.
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    People - @poppingremlins Colin Firth worked out for around six months, to be in top fighting shape and physical form, in order to portray.gentleman spy Galahad a.k.a. Harry Hart.
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    Social group - @poppingremlins When the Kingsman recruits are going through the basic training program, they still look good, and wear what are known as "siren suits. These outfits were inspired by the one-piece garment famously worn by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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    Font - DO PU IiEE The classic British Gentleman's Wardrobe, featured in the film, is a sixty piece collection that includes suits, watches, ties, umbrellas, briefcases, and more. Some movie posters for thepicture feature the whole of the arsenal. Kingsman FROM THE DIRECTOR OF X-MEN: FIRST CLASS THE SECRET SERVICE @poppingremlins THIS FALL MARV PREMIUM LARGE FORMAT THEATRES LILIL LILIL
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    Organism - @poppingremlins When plummeting towards the earth with only one parachute, Roxy and Eggsy perform a stunt known in the skydiving community as a "Mr. Bill This is where Eggsy hangs on to Roxy, who then deploys her parachute, so both of them hang suspended underneath the one chute. The opening shock, and resulting forces, make this stunt impossible to execute during terminal velocity.
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    Text - Ifyou go to 11 Savile Row on Google Maps Street View, you can actually walk inside Huntsman and Sons. Before you enter howeyer note the "Kingsman" symbol in the right bottom cormer of the front window, and when you go directly to the back of the shop, on the wall in the left hand corner is a picture of Colin Firth, wearing their suft. NTSMAN AM BH NTSMAN&SOR cooDS ENTRANCE @poppingremins
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    Suit - @poppingremlins King's During, and in the lead-up to, the First and Second World Wars, the British Intelligence Services often used tailor shops as fronts for their activities.
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    Pug - @poppingremlins Matthew Vaughn originally wanted the Kingsman Agents to kill the dogs, but Jane Goldman felt it risked losing the audience, Eventually they came up with a compromise of using blanks instead. Harry's stuffed dog' Scene was kept in, but he explains it died of pancreatitis years later.
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    Facial expression - @poppingremlins The church fight action sequence took seven days to shoot, while the underwater dormitory sequence was complex, and complicated to film, and took around a week and half to complete.
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    Leggings - @poppingremlins The film's closing credits dedication statese "In loving memory of my mother Kathy (Kathy Ceaton), who always put the extra into ordinary and taught me what a Kingsman should be Ceaton is the late mum of Matthew Vaughn, and was also the mother-in-law of Claudia Schiffer
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    Facial expression - @poppingremlins When Eggsy returns to the Princess' cell after "saving the world", the code which he enters on the alpha numeric pad are 2,6,2,5 On an alpha numeric keyboard those numbers could spell out the word ANAL' which is a reference to the Princess telling Eggsy that they could 'do it in the asshole' if he saved the world.
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    Hair - @poppingremlins Actress Sofia Boutella had to undergo an intense training schedule to portray the part of Gazelle. Boutella has said: "They taught me Thai boxing, Taekwondo, and how to work with cables. Gazelle uses her legs to kill, so I had to learn different types of kicks. I'd never done anything like it before."
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    Movie - COLIN FIRTH SAMUEL L. JACKSON ANDMICHAEL CAINE @poppingremlins The film was made and released two years after its source comic book was. published in 2012. "The Secret Service" rolled out onto the shelves of comic book stores in February 2012, telling the story of a gentleman spy, training his street punk nephew, to be the next great secret agent, and exploring two co-existing sides of British culture. FROM THE DIRECTOR OF X-MEN: FIRSST CLASS Kingsman THE SECRET SERVICE 25 FEBRUARY 13 AR
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    Suit - @poppingremlins Kingsman ORI Afull Kingsman Secret Service menswear line was created and crafted especially for.the film, with tailoring and manufacturing by some of Britain's most elite, famous, and trusted clothing brands.
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