Sharon Stone and the film's producer James G. Robinson fell out over her refusal to do a nude scene.
Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Irons and Jack Nicholson all turned down the role of Guy Baran, where it ultimately went to Chazz Palminteri.
In The Flintstones (1994) there is a character named Sharon Stone and the real Sharon Stone was asked to play herself, but Stone had already signed on to appear in this film and had to decline. A decision that she later claimed to regret
Kathy Bates plays a woman who had a single mastectomy due to breast cancer. Years later, Bates herself contracted breast cancer and had to have a double mastectomy.