Les Miserables (2012)

Trivia: During production, all of the crew members wore period costumes, just in case they accidentally got caught in a shot.

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Trivia: Anne Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Fantine, even though she only had 15 minutes of screen time.

Trivia: The Bishop of Digne is played by Colm Wilkinson, who was the original Jean Valjean on both the West End and Broadway.

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Trivia: Almost all film musicals have the singing overdubbed later, but in this movie the singing heard was actually being performed live on set. The actors all wore hidden earpieces, and a pianist played the music for them live, as well.

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Trivia: Frances Ruffelle, who played Eponine in the original London and Broadway casts of Les Miserables, makes a cameo during Lovely Ladies.

Trivia: Anne Hathaway's mother played Fantine in the musical's first national U.S. tour, and it was the last role she played before retiring to raise her children.

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Trivia: Eponine was supposed to be in Jean Valjean's death scene, just like in the stage version. Some of it was filmed but was eventually canceled.

Trivia: Cameron Macintosh, Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Michael Le Poer Trench made a cameo in the finale.