Fun Facts: Rob Reiner offered Mandy Patinkin any role he wanted in The Princess Bride. Patinkin chose Inigo partly because his own father died a few years before filming, and for motivation he would tell himself that if he caught the six-fingered man, his own father would come back. Patinkin said that when he stabbed Count Rugen as Inigo, it felt like he was killing the cancer that killed his father, and "for a moment, he was alive. And my fairy tale came true." #movienight