When Robert Downey Jr. was offered the part of playing the husband to Brooke Shields' character, he decided he wanted to play the character as a gay man, who hits on every guy he met in the film. He became a bit nervous when he found out one of those men would be Mike Tyson, but James Toback told him to stick to his original plan.
Slamming Claudia Schiffer's inability to grasp anything, William Lee Scott complained that the supermodel could "hardly get though a door without explicit instructions".