Trivia

The title is presented in reference guides as TRA(SGRE)DIRE and in the film itself with the middle four letters smaller than the rest of the title. The verb "Trasgredire" translates from Italian as "to transgress" while the verb "Tradire" (minus the "sgre") translates as "to betray."

Tinto Brass met Yuliya Mayarchuk while she was a waitress in a pizzeria and invited her to audition for Dream (1999). Mayarchuk remembers that on the day of the audition, along with her, there were many other applicants, including some prostitutes. Finding herself alone with the director, he asked her to undress. "He asked me to show him my boobs and asked me if they were fake," says the actress, who then also had to take off her clothes from the waist down. "He complimented me because, he said, I have a nice butt," the actress adds. Finally Mayarchuk was chosen by Brass also to play 'Carla' in this movie.

Yuliya Mayarchuk revealed that the two most difficult scenes for her were the one in which she has sex in a gondola (she had to put a fake penis inside her vagina and she started crying) and the infamous anal sex scene on a beach with Mauro Lorenz. "I didn't sleep the whole night before," Mayarchuk recalled. "I had straight hair. Shoot a scene like that! I had some kind of psychological block. An anguish inside, until the take. It was too private a situation, even if it was a fiction. Then I calmed down and everything went well."

Tinto Brass said that with Yuliya Mayarchuk, he found a willing accomplice toward his goal of shedding light on the psychology of modern women. "Each woman is the ass that she has. Actually, in addition, the ass is the mirror of the soul; in this specific case, it's the mirror of that gorgeous Slavic soul, Yuliya Mayarchuk, who's the lead actress of the movie. She's very good-natured, she has a great temperament, and she has a very cute little ass."

Tinto Brass said his intent with Cheeky! was, first and foremost, to advance the cause of feminism through the character of Carla. "She's a modern woman who is fully aware of her sexuality and sensuality, and of her right to enjoy it without subduing herself to a chauvinist mentality. It's an old habit, a fixation of mine, a belief that in order to discover women's lies, all you just have to do is look at their ass. Because, as opposed to the face, which is a hypocrite mask capable of faking and lies, the ass doesn't lie."