The waitress who brings Jack and the detective coffee is played by David Lynch's wife, Emily Stofle.
The film was released worldwide on Netflix on Lynch's 74th birthday.
The film's existence was hinted at in 2014 when Lynch said in an interview that he was going to be working with a monkey called Jack.
David Lynch surprised the audience of the first Festival of Disruption in NYC in 2018 with the U.S. premiere of the film.
"What Did Jack Do?" is a Black & White film that David shot back in 2016. It was premiered in Paris at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in November 2017, also screened at Festival of Disruption in New York on May 20th, 2018. It was distributed online by Netflix on January 20th, 2020.