Production
Barbra Streisand turned down the offers to direct the film and play the role of Ingrid Magnussen.
Alison Lohman wore a wig throughout filming, having just finished playing a cancer patient in deleted scenes from the film Dragonfly (2002).
The film clip Claire (Renée Zellweger) shows Astrid as an excerpt of her earlier acting career is actually taken from one of Zellweger's own early performances, in The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994).
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