Generation Kill

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1. #001

   In the DVD commentary, David Simon recalled Neal Jones's somewhat unusual audition for the role of Sergeant Major Sixta. According to the story, Jones entered the audition room, immediately began screaming his lines unintelligibly — just as his character does — and then left the room without saying another word. As he opened the door to leave, he winked at casting director Alexa L. Fogel, who realized she had found the right actor for the role.

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2. #002

   Rudy Reyes, the muscular Marine who runs around camp wearing a gas mask, plays himself in the series.

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3. #003

   Eric Kocher plays not himself but Gunnery Sergeant Rich Barrett in the series.

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4. #004

   Throughout the miniseries, Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright is never referred to by name. He is called only the Scribe, Rolling Stone or the Reporter.

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5. #005

   The real-life First Sergeant John Joseph Sixta was sentenced in a California court to 30 years to life in prison for molesting his two stepdaughters when they were children. He was also found guilty of molesting another child in Arizona and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

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6. #006

   The unusual tattoo on First Sergeant Brad Colbert's back appears to be based on a landscape by the Spanish artist Luis Royo. In the series, the tattoo was recreated by makeup artists.

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7. #007

   At the very beginning of the fourth episode, as the camera moves under the truck, a voice is heard from off-screen: "Hey white boy. What you waiting for? That hole ain't gonna dig itself. Go on and put your dick in that thing son and dig, dig." It is a line spoken by Junior in Platoon.

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8. #008

   The actors Eric Laden ("Cpl. James Chaffin"), Chance Kelly ("Lt. Col. Stephen 'Godfather' Ferrando") and Owain Yeoman ("Sgt. Eric Kocher") would once again play US soldiers in the Iraq War six years later in the biographical war drama American Sniper (2014).

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9. #009

   Andrea Calderwood was hired as a producer because of the experience she gained in Africa while working on The Last King of Scotland (2006).

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10. #010

    James Ransone played Eddie Kaspbrak in It: Chapter Two, in which Bill Skarsgård played Pennywise. Bill is Alexander Skarsgård's younger brother.

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