Half-Assed Internet Research
DeSean Jackson, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Marcedes Lewis and six other future NFL players went to Long Beach Poly; Butler gained 20 to 30 pounds, ate a real donut across 20 takes and took up smoking; Pablo Schreiber used his prior weapons training; Big Nick is loosely based on technical advisor Jay Dobyns
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- Going beyond Wikipedia, the research is who else went to Long Beach Poly: Deshaun Jackson (as transcribed), Juju Smith-Schuster, Mercedes Lewis and six other future NFL players, while nobody famous went to South Torrance.
- Long Beach is called the most underrated part of California, right on the water and no different from Orange County or Manhattan Beach, and big things are predicted for it; whether Jake in Training Day went to the same school is wondered.
- Butler gained twenty to thirty pounds for the role, ate the real donut on every one of twenty takes, and picked up smoking; Pablo Schreiber used weapons training he had received.
- Big Nick is loosely based on Jay Dobbins (as transcribed), a technical advisor on set, whose Slashfilm interview described police work as a nasty, grimy, scab of a life rather than Miami Vice, which the film tried to honor in its details even though the story is fantastical.
- More is wanted on whether the Fed really destroys money and whether it could be taken right before shredding, a device Logan Lucky also uses; a giant feature on it is requested.