Trivia / Away from Her

• Creator-Chosen Casting: Sarah Polley envisioned Julie Christie as Fiona from the start. She turned the role down at first, as she had gone into semi-retirement, but was convinced to sign on after seven months.
• Fake Nationality: Julie Christie (British) puts on a Canadian accent for Fiona.
• What Could Have Been: Sarah Polley had been intending for her first feature to be based on a script she wrote about a twelve-year-old actress on a TV series, but struggled to get it off the ground, and turned to adapting Alice Munro's The Bear Came Over The Mountain.