One big scene that was cut showed where Aykroyd's character worked -- a factory.
\"It's the only scene where Elwood ... takes off his glasses, he has safety glasses on in the factory,\" he said. \"It was the only time you see his eyes. I remember, John Landis' mother was working in that scene on the line as an extra ... It was a shaving cream factory and I play this little joke where I eat the shaving cream in front of her.\"
3 - Dan and John Couldn't Wait to Get Back to the Bar
Aykroyd and the late, great John Belushi would drive around \"day and night...just talking about everything from literature to theater, and what we were going to do in the future. Talking about the plans we were going to make and the next movie we were going to make.\"
\"Mostly, we were thinking about what time we could get over to the Blues Bar and started jamming,\" he said. \"It was an old wooden house and it was called the Sneak Joint, and we had a jukebox and a bar and that was our first Blues Bar together. Mostly that's what we talked about ... when do we get back there and hang out.\"
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PHOTO: Dan Aykroyd, left, and John Belushi in a scene from the movie, "The Blues Brothers."
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4 - The One Improvised Scene
Most everything in the movie was scripted, Aykroyd said.
\"Landis is a director who works from the script. It was very well written, there was not much improvisation. We pretty much kept to the script because of the rigidness of the Elwood character, the rigidness of the relationship.\"
But there was one scene he remembers was not in the script and it opens the movie - \"John throwing the cigarette lighter out the window. I can remember that was not scripted ... one of the things he made up right there,\" he said.
5 - Aykroyd Kept a Car
Aykroyd said that he held onto a marked Illinois State Police car.
\"I drove it around Manhattan for three years with it fully marked, the lights, sirens, everything,\" Aykroyd recalled. \"That was my car, I would go on dates in that car. I went out on a date with a Broadway actress Betty Buckley. I asked her on a date and picked her up in that car.\"
And true to form \"Nobody batted an eye [in New York],\" he said.
\"[They would think] 'There's the Illinois state police, guess they dropped off a prisoner or something,'\" he said. \"I was never stopped, it sat outside in a parking lot for years. No plates except municipal government, fake plates that we had on the prop cars.\"
June 20, 1980 - \"Blues Brothers\" with Dan Akroyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters. pic.twitter.com/GR0hktaMHo
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