Trivia / Monte Carlo (2011)

• Actor Allusion: This is not the first time Leighton Meester has gone to France.
  • Nor Katie Cassidy.
  • "This is me. Back up to the old Grimaldi suite."
• Acting for Two: Selena Gomez as Grace and as Cordelia.
• California Doubling: Although partly averted as some filming was indeed done in France and Monaco, the credits reveal most of the movie was shot in Hungary.
• Star-Derailing Role: Between the failures of this, Country Strong and That's My Boy, Leighton Meester's career never really recovered.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Nicole Kidman (who still served as one of the film's producers) Julia Roberts, and Sandra Bullock were considered for the lead roles as "one of three Midwestern schoolteachers who decide to ditch a disappointing no-frills holiday in Paris and pose as wealthy women vacationing in Monaco", before the executives decided to have the film rewritten again so that they can make the film more youthful.
  • Jez and John Henry Butterworth were the original screenwriters, before Thomas Bezucha was hired to direct and co-write the movie with April Blair.

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