Erika Anderson does not like to remember the filming of the most difficult sequences: "If I think back to the first day of working on Zandalee, I still get goose skin. It was the scene in which Nicolas Cage paints my naked body, the sun and the moon on my breasts and a river that flows down beyond the navel. And since Cage is an actor who loves improvisation, to show the domination of the male over the woman he put in such brutality and such participatory violence, that I was terrified, I felt really violated. We had to stop shooting and do it all again the next day. The rushes were pure pornography, they traumatized me."
According to the May 1991 Premiere Movie Magazine story on Zandalee. - Originally Cage's character was supposed to paint Zandalee with red paint, but after watching the love scene prior to this scene, it was decided that a more tender side of the relationship be shown, so he painted Zandalee using light blue and yellow.
One German version of the movie was titled "Love Affair", but it is the same movie. According to the May 1991 issue of Premiere magazine, the movie was originally called Adios, then "Adios Thierry", and finally it was settled on Zandalee.
Although the film played theatrically in some countries, it was released direct-to-video or straight-to-video in the United States due to it being panned by critics and audiences.