Trivia for
Nacho Libre (2006)

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• During some of the wrestling scenes they used blow up dolls to replace some of the audience. Supposedly, they cost much less than extras and they looked real.
  
  
• "Chancho" is a Spanish word for "Pig".
  
  
• Esqueleto is a Spanish word for "skeleton".
  
  

• While filming a wrestling scene, Jack Black jumped from the ring and struck his head on a chair. This caused a gash above his right eye which needed stitches.
  
  
• Was sent to theaters under the codename "toast".
  
  
• The little wrestling toy seen in the bus scene near the end is a miniature Nacho and was seen in Jared Hess's other film "Napoleon Dynamite". It is the toy that Napolean ties a string to and throws out the window of the bus.
  
  
• The action figure at the beginning of the movie before we see the young Nacho playing outside the monastery is Nightcrawler, a mutant from the X-men comic. Nightcrawler was also a monk in a monastery and is, like Nacho, a character not entirely fit for his environment.
  
  

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