Catherine Breillat revealed that Delphine Zentout turned 16 just 3 days before they started shooting the movie: "It was a miracle, because when I cast her I had never asked her age, or her birthday. If she had not had her 16th birthday three days before we started production, I would not have been able to show the movie around the world - because it is against the law to show explicit images of a girl who is not yet 16 in many countries."
Catherine Breillat said she didn't like Etienne Chicot at all. "I had not chosen him, but he was the only one who agreed to make the film. He was a very good actor, but he was not in my desire. I saw him the day before and he asked me lots of questions about the staging of the next day, to which I couldn't answer, because we weren't on the set and that I don't see what one can answer until I get there. I remember very well, I went to pick him up at Bayonne airport, I saw him from afar and objectively in life, I did not like him at all. I thought he had a horrible physique, but I thought to myself that I wouldn't see him as he is in life, that he would be beautiful because my movie had to be, so I couldn't film him and seeing him as I saw him in life. It's weird, but in reality you can very well film his gaze, that objective reality does not exist. I think the 'image doesn't exist', even the image of people, it's only what they project and in the case of a movie, that's what you project on them," Breillat said.