Ashley Nicole Blevins (one of the carnival scene extras) was dubbed "The Sledgehammer Girl" by one of the directors. Ten years old at the time, they had her playing the game where you swing the sledgehammer to test your strength and try to ring the bell.
The actors were freezing their butts off in the carnival scene. Even though it was filmed in the south near Birmingham, Alabama, it was freezing. It was shot through the night into the next morning. Temperature was 32 degrees with 10 mph wind gusts.