It's absolutely inconceivable to think that The Princess Bride isn't everyone's favorite movie!
It's got everything you could hope for in a film: action, romance, quotable lines, and loveable characters.
Decades later, we are still learning behind-the-scenes secrets that will rock your world! Go forth, as you wish, to discover all 13 of them.
This included many famous actresses we know today, such as Courteney Cox, Meg Ryan, Sean Young, Uma Thurman and Whoopie Goldberg.
In the end, director Rob Reiner chose Robin Wright in her major film debut.
The catastrophic nuclear power meltdown happened only eight hours away from where he was shooting the film, Maschenka.
This caused The Princess Bride co-producers Andrew Scheinman and Rob Reiner, to be scared of visiting him for his final audition.
He also refused to touch the bottled water.
While the actor looked the handsome part of Westley, he had to convince them he was funny.
“Here I was, a British actor working in Berlin, and our conversation revolved largely around my recounting my favorite episodes of All in the Family,” according to LaWeekly. In the end, his Fat Albert impression sealed the deal.
He chose the iconic role of Inigo Montoya because of personal reasons.
Since his father died a few years before filming, he told himself that if he caught the six-fingered man, his father would come back.
"For a moment, he was alive," he said. "And my fairy tale came true."
"He improvised 13th century period jokes, three days straight, 10 hours a day, never the same thing, never the same line twice," Mandy Patinkin told NPR about Crystal.
Meanwhile, Mandy bruised the muscles on the side of his rib because he was so tight from trying not to laugh.
Years before The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner directed the docu-comedy, Spinal Tap.
Since he did such a good job, he landed the role of director in the film. It was also why the film's composer, Mark Knopfler, took the job.
Reiner agreed by putting the hat he wore while filming 'Spinal Tap' in The Grandson's room. See if you can spot it!
“It was as if I were looking at a young Grace Kelly, she was that beautiful,” Elwes once said about meeting Wright for the first time.
“I couldn't concentrate on much of anything after that first encounter with Robin.”
In an interview with Town and Country, Robin said that she had a definite crush on her co-star.
“Cary was so good looking,” Wright said. “I was convinced we were going to be married.”
Since The Princess Bride is his favorite book, he didn't want the studio to screw things up.
So during the first day of filming, he could be heard chanting prayers in the background, which messed up the sound.
Thankfully, she was wearing a flame-retardant dress.
But William Goldman, the author of the book, forgot about this and screamed, “OH, MY GOD! HER DRESS IS ON FIRE! SHE'S ON FIRE!!!”
The night before the big fight scene, the four-foot stunt man inside the rat suit got arrested for drunk driving.
While he begged the officer to let him go because of his scene in the morning, the office refused.
Thankfully, the stunt man was released from jail just in time. He drove straight to the set to film the scene.
While you would think she'd require this since she's from Texas, she had all the training she needed from her father. That's because he's British!
The bodybuilder was relatively unknown when he was Norman Jewison's first pick.
But by the time the movie got made a decade later, he was too famous and expensive to hire. They hired Andre the Giant instead.
Although he died in 1993, he's always looked back on fondly by those who knew him.
Like how the 7'4” and 540 pounds wrestler would call everyone "Boss" to help them relax around him.
He would also warm Robin Wright in between takes by resting his large hand on her head like a hat. Aww!
