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• Shooting was delayed while actress Elisabeth Shue recovered from an torn Achilles tendon sustained during filming.
  
  
• An anatomically correct, totally working computer model was created of Kevin Bacon's entire body - down to the last capillary. The 3D model has since been donated to scientific researchers.
  
  
• The tranquilizer guns used in the beginning are in fact PGPs, an early model paintball gun.
  
  
• A scene depicting the invisible Sebastian brutally raping his neighbor, then climbing off her as she wept was deleted because test audiences, still identifying with Sebastian, seemed to feel it was too early in the movie for him to have descended to that level of evil. Other deleted scenes included Sarah discussing with Linda and Matt the possibility that Sebastian had fondled her, Sarah confronting Sebastian about the death of the dog, and Linda being stalked by Sebastian. The latter two scenes contain footage that was used in the promotional trailers.
  
  
• During filming, Kevin Bacon wore skin-tight costumes in green, blue, grey or black, to assist with the adding of special effects. Some of his cast mates said that the hardest part of the role was not laughing at someone painted in black, green, blue or grey, pretending to be mean.
  
  
• For the climatic final scene between Linda and Sebastian, four elevator shafts were constructed with the following purposes: - 1. One of the shafts is a small scale shaft with an inoperable elevator used for dramatic part of the scene with floor and ceiling covered with green screen. This shaft was used where Sebastian got up from the lift, Linda was kissing Sebastian before saying "Go to hell" - 2. The second shaft was a ceiling shot of the elevator going up to the top and coming down again. It was composited to the ceiling of the small scale shaft for a height illusion effect. - 3. The third shaft was used for the floor shot a elevator going up and the flames erupting and spreading from below the lab. It was composited with the floor section of the small scale shaft. - 4. The last shaft was used in a shot where the elevator was moving and passes by Linda. Also this shaft was also used when Sebastian plummets down into the flames. The floor section was covered with green screen and has the flame effects composited into the floor.
  
  
• In the scene where the crew carries a half-invisible Sebastian back to the operating table, a metal skeleton was used. It was made of metal in order to make it heavy so the actors would give the impression of carrying a human body.
  
  
• This is the first Hollywood movie of Paul Verhoeven that got an R-rating in its first submission to the MPAA. His previous American films, RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995) and Starship Troopers (1997) initially received X and NC-17 ratings, of which all except for Showgirls were re-cut to receive an R-rating.
  
  
• Creature effects supervisor Tom Woodruff Jr. played the gorilla Isabel, similar to the alien roles he played in the movies Aliens (1986), Alien³ (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997). To obtain a picture in the heat-sensitive infrared light, crew members warmed up the fur of the gorilla suit with hair dryers.
  
  
• Director Paul Verhoeven was investigated by the ASPCA because of the scene in which Sebastian kills the dog. Verhoeven showed them the raw footage which showed Kevin Bacon handing the real dog to a vet and taking a dummy from a crew member.
  
  
• Because of the graphic nature of the invisibility transformation scene, one trailer that included the transformation was given Mature Audiences rating by the MPAA and was allowed to be played only before R-rated films.
  
  
• To achieve convincing visibility underwater in the pool scene, the effects crew made countless experiments with transparent objects and transparent molds of body parts underwater. In the end, the entire body of Kevin Bacon, including hair, was painted black for the scene because black gave the best contrast underwater.
  
  
• Besides the full body suits in different colors for special effects scenes, Kevin Bacon also had to wear full-eye contact lenses the same color as the suits for most scenes.
  
  
• Because of the graphic nature of the layer-by-layer invisibility transformation, some production publicity photos indicated a different type of transformation. One particular publicity photo had Kevin Bacon invisible from the chest down, with the remainder of his body being fully visible, which contradicted with the transformation in the movie where one layer of his body become invisible exposing the underneath layer.
  
  
• To get the right reaction from the cast, Paul Verhoeven had speakers put in different places on the set, and had Kevin Bacon's voice come from different speakers so the cast would genuinely react to the invisible character moving around. For the scene with the invisible gorilla, the director screamed to the microphone imitating gorilla noises.
  
  
• Two-thirds of the 560 special effects shots were completed by Sony ImageWorks effects house, while the remainder was done by Phil Tippett Studios.
  
  
• The small two-way radios the crew uses toward the end of the movie are Alinco "ham" radios, possibly DJ-C5Ts.
  
  
• Three of the Elevator Authorization codes were: - Caine, 0-0-2-7 - McKay, 1-Delta-8-3-5 - Kensington, 2-Romeo-1-5-9 - At first the elevator replies, "Confirmed", but, later, when Dr. Sebastian Caine erases everyone else's codes, the elevator replies, "Authorization Invalid-Request Denied."
  
  
• The defibrillator used on the set is a MedTronic Physio-Control LifePak 8 defibrillator.
  
  
• Most special effects shots involved up to seven different plates. In most cases one plate consisted of an empty shot of the scene background where the movements of an invisible Kevin Bacon were later matched.
  
  
• In order to use the title, producers bought the rights to Dan Simmons' novel "Hollow Man". The novel has nothing to do with invisible men.
  
  

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