Pusher II

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1. #001

   Most of the cast were not actors but real criminals. Vasilije Bojicic, the Bosnian who played Vanja, was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2006 and subsequently deported back to Bosnia for heroin trafficking throughout Denmark. He left three children behind.

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2. #002

   According to director Nicholas Winding Refn, the crew shooting the prison scenes was so small that the real inmates thought it was an actual fight and cheered them on.

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3. #003

   Just like Pusher (1996), all scenes were shot in sequence.

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4. #004

   Mads Mikkelsen and Zlatko Buric are the only actors to reprise their roles from the first film in the second.

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5. #005

   In each film of the Pusher trilogy, the protagonist of the previous entry disappears from the series and is replaced by someone else. The practical reason for this is that Kim Bodnia and Nicolas Winding Refn fell out, and Winding Refn preferred to work with his friends Mads Mikkelsen and Zlatko Buric.

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6. #006

   After the box-office failure of Fear X (2003), Nicolas Winding Refn made Pusher II (2004) and Pusher III (2005) to fund his bankrupted film company (Jang Go Star).

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7. #007

   It is dedicated to Hubert Selby Jr. (1928-2004), the co-writer of Refn's film Fear X (2003).

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8. #008

   Leif Sylvester had given up acting for more than seven years, but returned when he was offered the role of 'Smeden'.

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