Facts + Trivia from Commentary

Said by McG himself.

• The lady with the torch (Columbia pictures logo) was originally going to have her hair animated to look like Farrah Fawcett, but was switched for the torch opening because of cost purposes.
• The general who lights his cigar with the ax and throws it is the martial arts choreographer for the film.
• The line that he says is, "I burned my freaking nose" in Mandarin.
• The beginning is made to look like one long, steadycam shot, but actually has small, hidden cuts. [The wall, when the shot goes into the floor; when the lid of the crate comes off and the shot is going up it; Alex flipping her hair after getting out of the crate; Dylan pushing through the guys after stealing the keys]
• The crate that Alex is in has a rig that makes the screws unscrew.
• When Alex slides out of the crate, it's actually a contortionist. The hair flip is actually a jump cut to Lucy Lui.

• The guy in the basement whose head is covered with the mask is Robert Patrick, whose knees were bleeding after shooting due to being thrown on the floor.
• The dust in the shot going through the hole in the floor is CGI.
• The guys stomping their feet on the floor is an homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• The dice in Dylan's hand, as she's rolling them, are CGI.
• The set for the bar was built on a sound stage in Sony Pictures Studios.
• The boots that Dylan wears were custom made.
• The stunts that the Angels do in the bar (the flips, chair spin, slide under the table) were all done by Cameron, Lucy and Drew with wires.
• When the Angels jump out of the windows of the bar, the glass is CGI.
• The scene of the Angels rolling down the hill was discussed as not being long enough, but was kept.
• The shots of the background and the foreground surrounding the bridge was CGI. The bridge is actually a dam in the North Valley of Los Angeles.
• The bullets that come out of the tanks are CGI.
• The tank explosions are real; not CGI.
• When the Angels drive of the bridge, the shot of the helicopter, before they get in it, is CGI.
• The shot of the helicopter flying off in front of the explosion was CGI, with CGI adding Drew and Lucy onto the wings.
• McG never felt comfortable putting the "Directed by McG" title in it's place, but was talked into it. He thought it was ridiculous.
• The guy who gives the unshown Madison Lee the cell phone is Randy Emmers.
• When Madison is speaking Mandarin on the phone, the voice is actually the film editor's wife. They wanted Madison to be so proficient, that she can speak Mandarin and have no accent.
• Béla Károlyi (Alex's gym coach during her introduction) was flown in for like four hours to film.
• In her introduction, Dylan's make-up and hair was inspired by David Bowie's "Aladdin Sane" period. Which is why her shirt says "Lady Insane."
• The wrestler that Dylan backflips on is Dwayne Johnson's cousin.
• Dylan's introduction was filmed in the Grand Olympic Auditorium
• The monster truck that Dylan is "driving" is actually being driven by the film's special effects supervisor Matt Sweeney. It was built just for the film by Bigfoot.
• When Natalie is delivering the baby cow, Cameron Diaz is actually digging into a prosthetic cow. The blood that she's spewing and splashing was a KY Jelly like substance and food coloring.
• The shot of Dylan on the on the roof of the car, banging on the window, is an homage to Starsky and Hutch.
• The scene of Alex roping the guy on a horse was filmed on a street in Century City.
• The bathroom shot of Dylan and Natalie is a cut scene from the first film.
• The scene right before the title, of the Angels running for the exploding car, features the car from Fantasy Island.
• Bruce Willis wasn't paid for his cameo as William Rose Bailey. In exchange for his not getting paid, Cameron, Drew and Lucy did a PSA for AdoptUSKids.org.
• A hairpiece and a prosthetic nose was put onto Bruce Willis.
• Drew picked the guy who runs pass Dylan and Alex while unpacking the UHAUL truck.
• Bosley's "I date fat women…" line was ad-libbed by Bernie Mac. Lucy Lui's laughter to the line was real and unscripted. McG liked her reaction so much that he decided to it in.
• In the shot of the two boys riding their bikes up the street, the red Corvette is from Boogie Nights.
• Andrew Wilson plays the police officer on the scene at Alan Caulfield's house. He also play Corwin's chauffeur in the first film.
• Andrew's hair was much longer, but it was cut for a sense of realism because real cops who were there said that police officers can't have hair below their collars.
• "Porcine byproduct" was associate producer Stephanie Savage's super-scientific technical way of saying pork rind.
• In the shot of Alex speaking into the tape recorder, actor Eric Bogosian, who plays Alan Caulfield was blinking and some of them had to be erased.
• Alex's house is the Sheats-Goldstein Residence, designed by John Lautner.
• Alex's lie of being a neurosurgeon isn't completely a lie. She was a neurologist, but left to become an Angel because being a neurosurgeon was satisfactory.
• McG wanted Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford to be in the film, but couldn't pull it off. Dylan wears an Judas Priest t-shirt. • In the shot of Natalie surfing, Cameron's face was superimposed onto a woman surfing in Hawaii. McG calls it "the best visual effect in the whole film."
• The woman who Bosley hits with his surfboard is Carmit Bachar from the Pussycat Dolls.
• The guy on the beach who uses grape Sex Wax (the one who Bosley slaps on the stomach) is Travis Bobbitt, the son of the film's prop master Russell Bobbitt. They didn't have a character, so he just went out there and took his shirt off.
• Bernie Mac came up with the idea of Bosley licking the surfboard.
• Madison's Enzo Ferrari was the first Enzo to ever be brought into the United States.
• In their Hot Dog on a Stick disguises, Dylan was Annie and Alex was Iris. Homages to Cherie Currie's character Annie in Foxes and Jodie's Foster character Iris in Taxi Driver.
• When Dylan's old in her "replacement Angel" sequence, she ad-libbed the falling asleep act.
• Bernie Mac ad-libbed the whole scene about his nuts.
• William Orbit wrote "Feel Good Time" for the film.