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In November 25 1992, was released one classic movie of all time, ‘The Bodyguard’. The movie is about a former Secret Service agent who takes the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President’s.

Stars: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp
Director: Mick Jackson

To celebrate the 30th anniversary, here are some of the curiosities about this movie.

  • It was Kevin Costner’s idea for Whitney Houston to start “I Will Always Love You” a capella.
  • Rachel’s mansion is the same mansion as the “horse’s head in the bed” mansion in “The Godfather (1972).”
  • Dolly Parton wrote and sang the song “I Will Always Love You”. In an interview on the Graham Norton show, she said that when they asked to use the song for the movie, she sent it in and forgot about it. Then one day she was driving from her office to her house in Nashville when she heard Whitney Houston’s version on the radio. She had to pull over to the side of the road in order to finish listening to it, because she was blown away by how beautifully the song was done, and by how beautifully Whitney Houston sang it.
  • Whitney Houston would give Kevin Costner singing lessons on set in exchange for acting advice.
  • Kevin Costner revealed in 2019, almost 27 years after the release of The Bodyguard (1992), that the woman he is carrying on the movie poster wasn’t Whitney Houston, but her double. Whitney had left the set to have some rest, so Kevin Costner decided to shoot the picture with her double. He only told her to keep her face hidden, so she could show the fear that the character was experiencing. Costner himself picked the definitive photo that was later used in the movie poster.
  • As of 2015, with over 37 million albums sold, the film had the best-selling soundtrack of all time. “Saturday Night Fever (1977)” places second–with nearly 10 million fewer albums sold.
  • Crew driver Bill Vitagliano was killed in an on-set accident when he was crushed between two colliding scissor-lifts, during the preparation for an underground parking garage scene.
  • This film was originally proposed in the mid-’70s, starring Diana Ross and Steve McQueen, but was rejected as “too controversial”. The film concept was to be attempted again in the late 1970s, with Ryan O’Neal and Diana Ross cast as the leads. The project fell through after only a few months because of irreconcilable differences between O’Neal and Ross, who had been dating.
  • Rachel and Frank go and see “Yôjinbô (1961),” which was released in the United States as “The Bodyguard”.
  • Pat Benatar, Olivia Newton-John, Madonna, Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, Janet Jackson, Terri Nunn, Kim Carnes and Dolly Parton were considered for the role of Rachel Marron. Kevin Costner, who was also producer on the film, reportedly denied Madonna an audition because she had made a gag joke at his expense in Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991).

Source: Imdb