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** Prowse was very upset after the premiere, and told Lucas his body language would have been completely different if he'd known the truth.
* In the film ''Smile'', none of the actresses playing the pageant contestants were told who the winner was until the scene was being shot.
* In ''[[The Shining]]'', Kubrick was able to film the whole movie without the young actor playing Danny Torrence being aware that he was in a horror film. Pretty amazing, considering ever-darkening tone of the film and some of the horror scenes he is in.
* The actresses for the main cast of ''[[The Descent (film)|The Descent]]'' were not told about the crawlers. When they finally met one in the movie the first take was of them all running off the set screaming.
* Legend has it that during the filming of ''[[Casablanca]]'', after each scene was filmed, Humphrey Bogart and the writers would sit down together and decide what should happen next. Ingrid Bergman had no idea until the very last scene was filmed whether her character would leave with Victor or stay with Rick.
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== Live Action TV ==
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** Specifically, the character who turned out to be the murderer {{spoiler|(Henry, the character played by star Christopher Gorham)}} wasn't told {{spoiler|he}} was the bad guy until eight episodes into a 13-episode season.
* ''[[24]]'' thrives on this one. Notably, {{spoiler|Sarah Clarke}} was not told that {{spoiler|Nina}} would be the Season One mole until about episode 12.
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* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' did this with, well, everybody. Specifically to avoid the actor getting influenced by [[Character Development]], since these changes were caused by organic growth. It was supposed to be a gradual change, and it worked. Characters weren't "revealed as suddenly evil" so much as gradually became as such.
* In Season 5 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]],'' the actor playing Ben wasn't told the exact nature of Ben's relationship to Glory until very late in the game.
* Similarly, on ''[[Dollhouse]]'', Harry Lennix wasn't told that {{spoiler|he was the Big Bad}} until the middle of the second season.
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)]]'' did this with the departure of Henry Blake. The whole episode was filmed with the entire cast being under the impression that Blake was going home to America. After they filmed Blake's departure, [http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mash.asp the cast was given a changed script] for the [[Downer Ending|last scene]]: Radar delivers the news that Blake's plane was shot down with no survivors.
* ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'': During most of Season 1, the audience was wondering if redneck racist Boyd Crowther had really Found the Lord and become a (fairly nutty) backwoods preacher, or was just scamming everyone. It turns out Walton Goggins, who played Boyd, didn't know either. In this case the writers/producers did this to force him to play it ambigiously.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': Alexander Siddig only found out that his character was actually a Changeling impersonator for several episodes until the episode where it was revealed.
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