The Act Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

The actor who plays Grandpa Joe has a so called 'coke nail' on both his pinky fingers.

Tim Burton used real squirrels in the "Nut Cracking" assembly line. In total there are 40 squirrels which were trained to sit on stools while they opened nut shells and dropped the nuts onto a conveyor belt.

Towards the end of 'The Candy Man Can' in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971) the candy store owner hits one of the girls in the mouth as he opens the counter

Charlie's dad works in a factory that makes Smilex toothpaste. Smilex is also the name of the Joker's deadly laughing gas in Tim Burton's earlier film, Batman.

The lead character is Sean Bateman, the little brother of Patrick Bateman, the protagonist of American Psycho. When Christian Bale turned down a cameo to reprise the role, Casper Van Dien (pictured below as Bateman) replaced him. The scene was ultimately deleted.

The teacher Mr. Turkentine asks for Charlie's help with an experiment to create the "finest wart remover in the world". The ingredients make nitroglycerin.

Charlie's Dad works at a toothpaste factory called Smilex. In Batman (1989) Another Tim Burton Film, Smilex is the name of the poisonous gas The Joker uses to poison everyone.

Charlie's father works in a factory that makes "Smilex" toothpaste. This is a reference to Tim Burton's "Batman," in which the Joker unleashes lethal "Smilex" poison upon Gotham City by hiding it within personal care items such as toothpaste.

Willy Wonka says he was never as short as the children even growing up. This line references Roald Dahl's other novel Matilda where the child hating character Ms. Trunchbull expresses the same sentiment.

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. Instead of using cgi, they trained 40 real squirrels for 19 weeks to sit on a stool and crack nuts and drop them onto conveyor belts. (Trained by micheal alexander and team)

When reading the contract to Charlie and Grandpa Joe, Willy Wonka has to say "etc. etc." in the middle of each sentence because he only has the left half of the contract

Everyone's reactions of the chocolate room were genuine. Gene Wilder suggested to the producers that maybe if the cast didn't see the room until the actual filming of the scene, there reactions would be totally normal. And, he was right.

The "Wonkatania" boat has just enough seats for the 8 remaining guests, yet another proof that everything was planned by Wonka beforehand

The money bills are made to look like a mashup of the american dollar and the british pound. That is done to keep the location of the movie uncertain.

Willy Wonka is shown to hate gum. It is said that chewing gum between meals can prevent plaque, which would remind him of his father.

The Time magazine cover shows Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick as the US/USSR leaders.

Augustus Gloop drops a chocolate bar in surprise, the bar is written in German, as the character is German

8TC) adds up to 23 twice. 9+0+6+8=23 T(20)+C(3)=23

Based on Carl Sagan novel and I got a reference about THAT black hole!

A happy scene of singing mechanisms is interrupted by a fire, but Willy Wonka admits that he liked it better that way. This foreshadows how the rest of the tour goes

The bomb that explodes while Victor tells us about his trip in Italy is in a Louis Vuitton bag - In Glamorama (years later), the terrorist group always stash their bombs in Louis Vuitton or Prada bags.

There's also a dog leaving the factory, which means they could bring dogs to the workplace

Margo Martindale: In the Riches (2007-2008), she was jokingly called Gypsy Rose Lee by Dahlia... and she plays real person Gypsy Rose's grandma in The Act (2019)

Episode 3, Shelley's boyfriend wears a Stormtrooper costume at the convention but wears the 2015-2017 stormtrooper mask whilst the episode took place in 2011