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Nacho Libre (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• 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 (2004). It is the toy that Napoleon ties a string to and throws out the window of the bus.
  
  
• During film, Jack Black got a black eye from accidentally hitting his head on a metal chair.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The film was partly inspired by Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez - a Mexican priest who became a wrestler to raise money for his parish.
  
  
• The lyrics to the song that Nacho is forced to sing at the party, was completely ad-libbed by Jack Black.
  
  
• The creative foodstuffs made by Nacho are are homage to 'Jared Hess'' previous film Napoleon Dynamite (2004), where plates of food introduced actors in the opening credits
  
  
• The "Nachomobile" is a "customized" version of a pedal's tricycle commercialized in Mexico, which then gets an after-market upgrade by adding a scooter motorcycle without the front wheel and by adding wider tires.
  
  

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