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After asking Reese Witherspoon to get pregnant for the role (as a joke, because she thought Reese was too thin), director Mira Nair was delighted when Witherspoon announced that she actually was pregnant.

In the early 1970s, Stanley Kubrick wanted to direct an adaptation of this book, but found it to be too big to make it into a three-hour movie. He instead made Barry Lyndon (1975).

Shot in 55 days.

Robert Pattinson had his scenes as Becky's son Rawdy deleted in the final edition.

Most of the costumes were purposefully made a little smaller than necessary, to slightly alter the overall look of them.