Trivia / CAM

• Acting for Two: Madeline Brewer plays both Alice and the fake "Lola."
• What Could Have Been:
  • Isa Mazzei originally wanted to do a documentary about her time as a cam girl to help provide sympathetic portrayals of cam girls and sex workers, but ultimately decided that a genre film would be easier to help audiences empathize.
  • Daniel Goldhaber apparently originally wanted the story to go "weirder," involving a climax that involved the main character literally entering a computer to fight the doppleganger.
• Write What You Know:
  • Isa Mazzei is very open about how much of the story is drawn from her actual experience working as a cam girl. In particular, the plot of the doppelganger was heavily inspired by seeing her videos pirated and reuploaded on sites like Pornhub without credit.
  • Mazzei has noted in several interviews that, while the scene of Alice going to the cops and not being taken seriously is based on actual experiences with law enforcement. The specific scene of a police officer asking a clearly disturbed and frightened Alice "what's the weirdest thing you've ever had to do?" is actually based on encounters with Hollywood executives in professional environments when trying to get the movie made.