- Actor-Inspired Element: Adam Driver is a fan of the musical Company, so Charlie and Nicole sing songs from that in the film. Adam also suggested Charlie being a theatre director.
- Actor-Shared Background: Adam Driver grew up in Indiana and moved to New York, like his character.
- Approval of God: Noah Baumbach based the film in part on his divorce with Jennifer Jason Leigh. According to him, he showed Leigh the film (along with its script) and "she [liked] it a lot."
- The Danza: So close it deserves mention: Ray Liotta plays Jay Marotta.
- Dawson Casting: One of Nicole's old movies as shown in the film has her playing a college-attending Ms. Fanservice in a sex comedy. Scarlett Johansson was 33 when that scene was filmed and looked it.
- Enforced Method Acting: While filming the argument scene in Charlie's apartment, Noah Baumbach would give separate notes to Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson to surprise the other.
- Reality Subtext: Nora is loosely inspired by a real-life divorce attorney who helped both Laura Dern and Scarlett Johansson in their divorces.
- Throw It In!: Charlie's collapse to the floor during the argument scene was an improv moment by Adam Driver.
- Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: The script wasn't finished when the film started production, so many of the cast contributed some of their personal experiences to it; Laura Dern and Scarlett Johansson both divorced their husbands (Scarlett was going through her second divorce when she was approached to star in this), and Adam Driver is a child of divorced parents.
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