Trivia / Sharp Objects

• Actor-Inspired Element:
  • Amy Adams specifically lowered her voice for Camille, wanting to make sure she sounded different from her more famous roles.
  • Amy also suggested Chris Messina for his role, after he'd played her husband in Julie & Julia, which also makes their relationship a case of Production Posse.
• Ascended Fancast: A variant. Amy Adams was a major fan choice for It: Chapter Two to play the adult Bev. There, she would've played the adult version of Sophia Lillis. While Jessica Chastain ultimately played Bev, Lillis and Adams are each other's Time-Shifted Actor here.
• California Doubling: Wind Gap is in Missouri, but the series was filmed in Georgia.
• Dawson Casting: Eliza Scanlen was eighteen during filming while her character Amma was thirteen in the book. However she was aged up to be about fifteen in the series, making this a minor example.
• Deleted Scene: According to Elizabeth Perkins, a scene was filmed where Adora is cleared of the crimes due to lack of evidence, and Amma becomes the main suspect, but the producers opted to leave it out.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Amy Adams stopped exercising and changed her diet - drinking lots of coffee and eating more sodium - specifically to get the body tone for Camille.
• Enforced Method Acting: In order to prepare for the sex scene, Amy Adams drank quite a bit beforehand.
• Fake American: Eliza Scanlen (Amma) is Australian.
• Follow the Leader: The miniseries was noticeably greenlit on the heels of Big Little Lies, which was itself following the trend set by Gone Girl.
• Hostility on the Set:
  • There was a lot of tension between director Jean-Marc Vallée and showrunner Marti Noxon over Creative Differences - he would opt to focus on telling stories through imagery and visuals, while she described having "toe-to-toe screaming matches" over getting him to stick closely to the series scripts. Amy Adams, Gillian Flynn and Jessica Roades would support her in these efforts.
  • In an interview about the series, Eliza Scanlen said that Amy Adams had taken her under her wing and "stood up for [her]" during filming, implying that there was tension between the actors and the director.
• Separated-at-Birth Casting:
  • Sophia Lillis is extremely believable as the younger version of Amy Adams.
  • Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson are also very believable as mother and daughter.
• What Could Have Been: An adaptation had been greenlit in 2008, with Andrea Arnold set to direct.