Trivia / Julius Caesar

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: There's no evidence he really said Et Tu, Brute? when he noticed Brutus among his attackers during his murder. According to the Roman historian Suetonius, he said "you too, my son?" in Greek; according to the Greek historian Plutarch, he didn't say anything.
• On-Set Injury: In the 1937 production, Orson Welles (Brutus) decided to use a real dagger as a prop because it looked more dramatic than a fake one. The potential for disaster should be obvious. Sure enough, on 6 April 1938, Welles accidentally stabbed Joseph Holland (Caesar) for real. Holland was rushed to hospital, bleeding profusely from wounds to his chest and arms. Luckily he made a full recovery.

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