The monologue that Lovely reads and the camera angles in the scene where Lovely and Jimmy are in his apartment talking about acting are taken from She's Gotta Have It (1986), also directed by Spike Lee.
Co-stars Quentin Tarantino despite his notorious, long running and bitter public feud with Spike Lee.
Film debuts of Marita de Lara, Gretchen Mol, Andrea Navedo, Dina Pearlman, Joseph Lyle Taylor, and Rolonda Watts. For Mol, Navedo, Pearlman, and Taylor, it was their first on-screen appearances ever.