Where to watch Erin Brockovich (2000)

Trivia & production notes

• Executive producer Carla Santos Shamberg discovered Erin Brockovich's story through an unexpected connection: they shared the same chiropractor.
• Screenwriter Susannah Grant spent a full year shadowing Brockovich and her children to research the screenplay.
• Three prominent directors turned down the opportunity to helm the film before Steven Soderbergh was approached.
• Julia Roberts was initially considered a long shot for the lead role, but she enthusiastically signed on after her agent received the script.
• Julia Roberts became the first actress to command a $20 million salary for a single film.
• The film was shot over eleven weeks in 1999, with five weeks of filming taking place in Ventura, California.
• Erin Brockovich herself appears in the film as a waitress, and real-life lawyer Edward Masry has a cameo as a diner patron seated behind her.
• An actual judge from the PG&E case played himself in the film, delivering a key ruling scene.
• Soderbergh cut a scene showing Erin becoming ill from toxins, despite it being based on real events where she was hospitalized, because he wanted to avoid suggesting the film would become a terminal illness movie.
• Universal Pictures worried that test audiences would reject the film due to the main character's frequent profanity, despite the film performing well overall with test viewers.

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