FILM SETS WILL SURPRISE YOU

Shockingly (not shockingly), the Iron Throne is really rather uncomfortable.

Christopher Nolan never sits down on set.

Big, expensive explosions don’t always go to plan. When they blew up the mountain fortress in Inception, it fell the wrong way.

If you try on Michael Fassbender’s Frank Sidebottom head, it might get stuck (it did).

When he’s not filming, Jim Broadbent does the crossword. He’s always doing crosswords. He is half-man, half-crossword.

Roads in films always look so lush and shiny because teams with hoses leap out between takes, furiously spraying them, even in summer.

You can fly 4,700 miles to Vancouver to watch a welding scene with no dialogue, then get flown back again.

If Jason Flemyng pays a visit to a Guy Ritchie set and hasn’t seen him in a while, he might treat him to a massage in the director’s chair.

When you’re on set of Shining sequel Doctor Sleep and the woman from Room 237 walks past and smiles, it can be... discombobulating.

Being on a precise replica set of the Overlook Hotel in general is about as trippy as it gets. It’s difficult to stand beside that typewriter and not feel blissfully weirded out.

Watching Rik Mayall dance around a corridor in a melted-red-rubber bikini was a joy.

The set of an X-files movie is as inventive as you’d imagine. Especially when children in pyjamas are replaced by little people in pyjamas, so that the production can keep shooting through the night.

If you’re invited to visit the set of Entourage, it will be on a day when they’re filming Turtle parking his car.

Peter Jackson sometimes drives to set in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

On set, Peter Weller might, unprompted, give you an hour-long lecture on classical civilisations. And you will like it.