🎬 Fact: In Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009), Cuba Gooding Jr. spent time observing real pediatric neurosurgeons at Johns Hopkins to prepare for the operating-room scenes. The medical advisors noted that he insisted on learning the precise hand positions and instrument movements used in delicate brain surgeries, which is why many close-up shots in the film show Gooding performing the actions himself, not a double. | Hoenest