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• Charlize Theron gained 30 pounds for her role in the film.
  
  
• Christina Ricci gained about 10 pounds for her role in the film.
  
  
• Steve Perry from the band Journey was the music consultant.
  
  
• Charlize Theron won the academy award for playing Aileen Wuornos on 29 February 2004, Aileen Wuornos's birthday.
  
  
• The skating rink is called Semoran Skateway, in Casselberry, Florida. Fun World, where Selby and Aileen ride the ferris wheel, is in Orlando, Florida on the tourist strip, International Drive.
  
  
• Aileen Wuornos, a notoriously uncooperative person, gave director Patty Jenkins access to hundreds of letters she had written and received in order to gain insight into Aileen's life.
  
  
• Patty Jenkins has said that she knew Charlize Theron was perfect for the role of Aileen Wuornos when she awoke to a scene of The Devil's Advocate (1997) on television. Jenkins at the time was writing her film Monster. She said that an actress that would allow a closeup of her nose running, as Theron did, would be open enough to pull off the challenging role of Wuornos.
  
  
• The word "fuck" and all permutations of it are spoken 189 times.
  
  
• According to Patty Jenkins, the movie was shot in 28 days, sometimes with as many as four scenes, or nine pages of script, being shot in one single day.
  
  
• Patty Jenkins wrote the screenplay in only 7 weeks, while the production itself only took 2 months to be set up.
  
  
• The biker bar scenes were filmed at "the Last Resort" - a bar frequented by the real life Aileen Wuornos, and the site where she was actually arrested. The bar owner (who capitalized on Wuornos' infamy by hanging a sign out in front of the bar advertising "cool beer and Killer Women") makes a cameo as the bartender who threatens to cut off Wuornos for being over her tab limit.
  
  
• Kate Hudson was originally offered the role of Selby but turned the role down.
  
  

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