10. While most people believed Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam or David Lynch would direct the film, Sonnenfield, a cinematographer with no directing experience, landed the stressful job…and let the 25-week haul of a shoot get to him. “I lost 13 pounds in the first 10 weeks alone,” he told Empire. “And the tension was just incredible.”
And three weeks into production, he fainted on set during a conversation about the budget, explaining, “I was standing behind a chair when I started to feel this tremendous pressure in my chest, as if someone was blowing up a balloon inside me. Before I knew what was happening, I got very dizzy and tried to sit down and – wham! – I’d passed out.”
11. Likely not helping with his anxiety? Rubin playfully changing the name on the back of the director chair to a new name each time a reporter was on the set, often including directors who had been in talks to direct the film at one point.
12. The sequel’s title, Addams Family Values, was directly taken from a controversial speech made in 1992 by then-Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle, who said a breakdown of “family values” was to blame for the Los Angeles riots.
