Trivia / To Rome with Love

• Creator Backlash:
  • Elliot Page, in a post where he opened up about harassment that he had faced in his career and called out the epidemic of sexual harassers in the industry, admitted that doing the film was his biggest regret due to his discomfort with Woody Allen and his personal scandals.
    "I did a Woody Allen movie and it is the biggest regret of my career. I am ashamed I did this. I had yet to find my voice and was not who I am now and felt pressured, because 'of course you have to say yes to this Woody Allen film.' Ultimately, however, it is my choice what films I decide to do and I made the wrong choice. I made an awful mistake."
  • Greta Gerwig made a similar statement in an interview with the New York Times.
    "I would like to speak specifically to the Woody Allen question, which I have been asked about a couple of times recently, as I worked for him on a film that came out in 2012. It is something that I take very seriously and have been thinking deeply about, and it has taken me time to gather my thoughts and say what I mean to say. I can only speak for myself and what I’ve come to is this: If I had known then what I know now, I would not have acted in the film. I have not worked for him again, and I will not work for him again. Dylan Farrow’s two different pieces made me realize that I increased another woman’s pain, and I was heartbroken by that realization. I grew up on his movies, and they have informed me as an artist, and I cannot change that fact now, but I can make different decisions moving forward."
• What Could Have Been:
  • Noomi Rapace was considered for Anna.
  • Robert Pattinson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson auditioned for Jack.
• Working Title: The film was originally titled The Bop Decameron, before being changed to Nero Fiddled and eventually to To Rome With Love. Woody Allen changed it when he realized that few people understood the title's loose reference to The Decameron, a medieval collection of novellas.

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