Men in Black 3/Trivia

• Actor Allusion:
  • Hinted at. J doesn't like being called a dumbass in some dialogue reminiscent of Hancock.
  • When J takes a little girl's chocolate milk, she mistakes him for "the president" (Barack Obama). Will Smith has spoken of a desire to portray Obama in a biopic.
  • Griffin's love of baseball. Michael Stuhlbarg's other best-known role, Arnold Rothstein of Boardwalk Empire has quite a bit to do with the development of baseball in America.
• Billing Displacement: Although Tommy Lee Jones gets second billing, he's only on screen for 15 minutes.
• Dawson Casting:
  • K is supposed to be 29 in 1969. He's played by Josh Brolin, who was 43 during the filming. J lampshades this, looking incredulously at K and snarking "Got some city miles on ya, huh?"
  • Inverted with Will Smith as Smith was born in 1968. We learn J was at least 4-5 in 1969 making J a few years older than Will Smith.
  • Also inverted with O. Emma Thompson was born in 1959 and thus would have been ten in 1969. The younger version of O looks to be in her mid to late twenties and is played by Alice Eve who would have been 28 to 29 during filming.
• McLeaned / Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Zed was killed off because Rip Torn had been arrested for drunk driving.
• Throw It In: The Funny Background Event by one of the guards when J, K and Griffin are talking to the colonel.