Trivia / Snatch.

• Awesome, Dear Boy: Brad Pitt really wanted to work with Guy Ritchie after loving Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.
• Cast the Expert:
  • Gorgeous George is played by real life boxer Adam Fogerty.
  • Mickey's last opponent is also played by a real boxer, Scott Welch, who challenged for a heavyweight title just a few years before the film was made.
• Cast the Runner-Up: Brad Pitt was originally going to play Turkish. When he couldn't master the Cockney accent, Mickey was created.
• Completely Different Title: Averted. The U.S. distributors considered changing the title to Snatched or Snatch'd.
• Deleted Scene: Scenes cut from the film:
  • Turkish and Tommy go to a pub to meet Brick Top for the first time.
  • Sol and Vinnie try to open Franky Four Fingers' briefcase before Boris the Blade comes to pick it up. They finally get Franky to open it and he manages to get the gun Boris gave him out of it, but the gun doesn't work.
  • Errol and John (Brick Top's henchmen) go talk to Mullet to find out who robbed the bookies.
  • Bullet Tooth Tony and Avi go to Brick-Top's pub to meet him. Tony has a beef with Errol and has to draw a sword to keep Brick Top's henchmen at bay.
  • Brick Top tries to sell Avi the diamond that Sol and Vinny gave him. Avi examines the stone and immediately figures out it's a fake (the same one Lincoln tried to pawn at the beginning of the movie). He throws it into a wall, where it smashes into little pieces. Meanwhile Sol and Vinny, who are locked into Brick Top's office, keep arguing and trying to escape.
  • Vinny and Sol go to the pikeys' camp to find the dog and ask Mickey if he's seen him, but the dog's not there.
• Fake Irish: Brad Pitt. (with a bizarre version of the Traveller accent). Supposedly, Pitt was originally offered the role of Turkish, but proved incapable of learning to speak with a 'proper' British accent, so Guy Ritchie decided to go with that instead. English actor Jason Flemyng has a smaller speaking role as another Irish Traveller.
  • To Pitt's credit, his accent isn't too far off some rural Irish accents, and considering American actors' track record on Irish accents, his attempt is like a breath of fresh air.
• Fake Nationality:
  • Rade Šerbedžija, a Croatian, plays the Uzbekistani Boris. He doesn't look particularly like an ethnic Uzbek. Boris could be an ethnic Russian from Uzbekistan, making all of those times people call him Russian (including his own brother) actually true.
  • Also, Puerto Rican Benicio del Toro as Jewish American Frankie Four Fingers.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Brick Top is involved in dog-fighting. Alan Ford is a vegetarian and animal rights activist in Real Life.
• Method Acting: As he was playing a particularly scummy character, Brad Pitt made a point of rarely washing during the film's production.
• Never Work with Children or Animals: According to the DVD Commentary, Bow, the dog was very difficult to work with. During the car scene with Vincent, Sol and Tyrone, the dog was actually attacking Lennie James (it seemed to think James' leather jacket was another animal), and James was bitten in the crotch by the dog but didn't suffer any serious injury. The dog was replaced after that incident.
• No Budget: The producers couldn't afford enough extras for the boxing match sequences. Whenever a camera angle changed, the extras had to move around to create an impression of a crowded house.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Considering how well known he is nowadays as a dangerous bruiser in Hollywood action movies, it can be a little surprising to see Jason Statham using his natural accent and playing a weaselly petty criminal and one of the few people in the movie who's not ever involved in violence.
  • Handsome Hollywood leading man Brad Pitt plays a grubby, unpleasant, and unstable Irish Traveller, with bad teeth, worse hygiene and a nigh-incomprehensible accent.
• Production Posse: Returning from Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels are Guy Ritchie, Matthew Vaughn, Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Alan Ford, Jason Flemyng, cinematographer Tim Maurice-Jones, composer John Murphy and many others.
• Throw It In!: Lennie James actually hit himself in his private parts with the shotgun while blasting a hole in the wall at the bookies, but continued the scene. That footage was used in the film.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The role of Brick Top was originally offered to Sean Connery. He liked the script and was curious to see Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, so producer Matthew Vaughn hastily arranged a screening for him at extreme short notice. Connery duly turned up and watched the film, before emerging with his judgment: "That is a good film", he said, "and (in a stage whisper) you're not going to be able to afford me." Cue Alan Ford.
  • Behold the original script.
• Word of God: Guy Ritchie said at the 2015 Comic-Con that Bullet-Tooth Tony hesitates killing the dog because he grew up with dogs and had his dog shot by the police

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