'Ocho apellidos catalanes' trivia and fun facts

Berto Romero, Pau in the film, waited to read the script before deciding whether or not participate in the film.

The great expectations for this film has made that 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2' fall behind one week to premiere for not compete with them.

Although the original cast will be present in the second part there will be new characters played by Berto Romero, Rosa Maria Sarda or Bethlehem Cuesta.

On its first day it has become the best Spanish film release of the year.

'My Best Friend's Wedding' and 'Good Bye, Lenin!' have inspired the director when writing the script of ''Ocho apellidos catalanes''.

During filming, the film was named '9 apellidos vascos'. After, it was changed for '8 apellidos catalanes'.

The filming of the sequel started May 11 in Catalonia and ended on Sunday July 5 in Seville.

The third act of the film was not closed in the script, so Emilio Martínez-Lázaro ended up shooting different endings and then decide which of them would be the one.

Karra Elejalde, Koldo in the film, lost the script of the movie and never recovered it.

When the director began to consider the possibility of a sequel to 'Ocho apellidos vascos', he thought it could be set in Catalonia or Bilbao.

Pau (Berto Romero) and Judit (Belén Cuesta) mimic the dance starring John Travolta and Uma Thurman in 'Pulp Fiction'.

Just will pass 1 years and 8 months between the release of the first, '8 apellidos vascos' and '8 apellidos catalanes'.

Such was the syncretism with the title of the film that, during filming, on the cover of the scripts put 'Martians on Earth' if the actors left him forgotten.

Antonio Resines and Carolina Ferre shared a brief scene in the film but Emilio Martínez-Lázaro decided to cut it.