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  • Writer/director Celine Song’s name is listed as the playwright for John’s play on a poster outside the theater because the play is actually a real one she wrote back in 2016.
  • The leg-lengthening surgery discussed in this movie is real, although far less common than procedures such as rhinoplasty or breast augmentation. The $200,000 cost mentioned in the film is also generally accurate.
  • John Magaro, who voices Mark P. (never seen on screen), played Arthur, Nora's husband, in Past Lives, also written and directed by Celine Song.
  • While Lucy and Harry’s apartments were filmed on-location, John’s apartment was built in-studio. Director Celine Song shared photographs of a place where her husband, Justin Kuritzkes, once lived as a reference for the dilapidated apartment.
  • First thoughts for the film began around 10 years ago, when writer/director Celine Song worked for a professional matchmaking service for about six months.
  • The film was shot during peak wedding season, which restricted location options. Rather than filming the wedding sequence in one venue, production was split across four locations.
  • The makeup desk where Lucy sits at the start of the film once belonged to Norman Rockwell, according to set decorator Amy Silver.
  • At the end of the credits, a scene shows people getting married, and the cave people are seen happily walking out of the room together.