The Film:
- Romance on the Set: A real-life development that took place during the shooting of Irma Vep is that its director Olivier Assayas and Maggie Cheung started dating and got married soon afterwards. They later got divorced but have on another occasion worked together again on Clean.
- Throw It In!: Mireille bluntly asks Maggie
, "Have you sex with girls?" Maggie, surprised, doesn't say no outright. Word of God has it that the scene was improvised.
The Series:
- Actor-Shared Background: Mira turns out to be Swedish like actress Alicia Vikander is, though she's "become American" (it's left unclear if this means she's now a US citizen or just has played so many American roles it's rubbed off).
- Self-Remake: A TV adaptation of Assayas' 1996 film of the same name.
