Teen Wolf Trivia | 40 facts about the series

Teen Wolf is a supernatural teen drama TV series, that gained a lot of popularity, and fans around the world.

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1. Teen Wolf is an American supernatural teen drama television series.
2. It was developed by Jeff Davis for MTV.
3. Teen Wolf was loosely based on the 1985 film of the same name.
4. Tyler Posey portrays the title character, a young werewolf who defends his California town from supernatural creatures and other threats.
5. The series premiered on June 5, 2011.
6. It concluded on September 24, 2017, after six seasons.
7. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
8. Teen Wolf won three Saturn Awards for Best Youth-Oriented Television Series.
9. The series also received 13 Teen Choice Awards, nine for the performances of Posey, Dylan O’Brien, Tyler Hoechlin, Holland Roden, and Shelley Hennig and four for Choice Summer TV Series.
10. The plot is about a average high school student and his best friend get caught up in some trouble causing him to receive a werewolf bite. As a result they find themselves in the middle of all sorts of dramas in Beacon Hills.
11. Dylan O’Brien originally went in to the auditions to read for the role of Scott but felt a better connection to the role of Stiles.
12. Three cast members were… hacked!
13. There was talk of a Teen Wolf reboot before the final season even aired, but nothing is official.
14. Creator Jeff Davis has toyed with the idea of continuing the series in podcast form.
15. Getting the actor into full werewolf makeup took as much as four and a half hours every single time.
16. There was an entire team responsible for Posey’s transformation.
17. The wolf noises are actually… gorillas!
18. The creators did not specify the reason why they chose gorillas, but maybe they did because they’re pretty frightening animals. Plus – and we’re sure this was unintentional – it’s kind of a callback to the original film in which the wolf makeup looks suspiciously simian.
19. According to Max Carver, who played Aiden, the cast was given a half hour at most to go over fight scenes.
20. In fact, it was not uncommon for them to have as little as ten minutes to learn the choreography.
21. Holland Roden originally auditioned for the role of Allison Argent twice, before reading for the part of Lydia Martin.
22. According to Jeff Davis (the creator of the series), the cast and crew traditionally watch the season premieres at his house and he usually orders everyone pizza.
23. Tyler Posey is the only main cast member to have appeared in every episode.
24. Holland Roden, though credited for every episode, was absent from episodes in seasons 2 and 3.
25. Following the tragic 2015 terrorist attack that claimed hundreds of lives in Paris, Arden Cho had been tweeting her support. The next day she posted a photo of herself on the set of Teen Wolf to Instagram.Shortly after, she was shaded by fellow costar Ian Bohen, who played Peter Hale.
26. The actor said some unkind words, the gist of which was that it wasn’t the time for smiling selfies. Cho took the high road in response, basically referring Bohen to her earlier tweets. Still, she was uncomfortable enough to add a supportive caption to her previously unrelated selfie.
27. It didn’t take fans long to come to Cho’s defense, slamming Bohen for attacking her. Bohen eventually deleted his original comments, asking that people “please stop hating on each other.”
28. Tyler Posey’s double-banded tattoo was added into the show due to the long process of covering up the many tattoos Tyler has.
29. Tyler Posey says that he spent more time in Beacon Hill High School more than his actual high school.
30. Dylan O’Brien, in an interview, stated that if there is a spin-off of the series that he would not be a part of it at all.
31. On the other side Tyler Posey stated he would love to be a main recurring character on the show.
32. Crystal Reed was the first person to audition for the role of Allison.
33. Holland Roden revealed in the 2015 PaleyFest Panel that the Banshee screams in the show are fake.
34. Roden explained that the screams in Season 2 were real, but for the rest of the seasons she stage-screams and the crew have a lot of her screams banked in the productions.
35. Roden also revealed that most of the actors who portray werewolves have also stopped growling in their scenes, Tyler Posey and Shelley Hennig are method actors and still growl, but Tyler Hoechlin has just been hissing for awhile.
36. Ryan Kelley originally auditioned for the roles of Scott McCall and Isaac Lahey, but the roles went to Tyler Posey and Daniel Sharman.
37. Kelley ended up getting the role as Deputy Jordan Parrish.
38. Dylan Sprayberry originally auditioned for the role of Young Derek Hale; but the creators of the show thought he was too young for the role, the role eventually went to Ian Nelson. Sprayberry later got the role of Liam Dunbar.
39. The Sluagh which appears as a prominent antagonist in season 5 was the creation of an avid fan who entered her media graphic render of the monster through tumblr under #TWCreatureFeature which won a contest set up over facebook.
40. The Nemeton is a real tree known as Nemeta from a Celtic region in real life, a Nemeton is a sacred space.