'Big Fish' trivia and fun facts

French actress Marion Cotillard's first American feature film.

Helena Bonham Carter (Jenny / The witch) was pregnant during filming.

Steven Spielberg was attached to this project and wanted Jack Nicholson to star, but dropped out due to his full schedule, soon after which Tim Burton signed on.

Tim Burton is one of the clowns sitting close to Mr. Calloway's trailer.

When Norther Winslow shows his half finished poem to Edward, (Grass so green / Skies so blue / Spectre is really great!) the handwriting is director Tim Burton's.

Even though Young Edward lands in Korea, the ventriloquist and his puppet speak in Tagalog (language of the Philippines) while the Siamese twins and Edward speak in Cantonese (a Chinese dialect). The soldiers who pull the ventriloquist off the stage speak Mandarin Chinese (language of mainland China and Taiwan) while the other soldiers speak in Korean.

Young Edward becomes a traveling salesman for a company that sells hands with metal tools as fingers, all held together by a plastic base. The crew were aware that people would draw connections between it and Eduardo Manostijeras (1990), and therefore purposely did not include scissors in the design.

Daniel Wallace, the author of the original book, appears as Sandra's economics professor at Auburn.

Miley Cyrus's feature film debut. She is one of the girls who accompany Edward to the witch house.