Trivia / Tightrope

• Dawson Casting: Clint Eastwood was nine years older than his character.
• Real-Life Relative: Clint Eastwood's daughter Alison played Amanda Block.
• Romance on the Set: Clint Eastwood was concurrently having affairs with several actresses who appeared in the film, including Jamie Rose.
• Wag the Director:
  • Clint Eastwood reportedly did the majority of the directing after Richard Tuggle was too slow behind the camera. Contractually, Tuggle still retained the director's credit.
  • Geneviève Bujold felt that there shouldn't be a love scene with Clint Eastwood. He was receptive of this, and no love scene between the two was incorporated into the movie.
• What Could Have Been: Susan Sarandon turned down the role of Beryl Thibodeaux. She explained to The Los Angeles Times in 1992:
  The link between violence and sex was very strong. I met with Clint Eastwood and I said, "Aren't you worried, especially you, who everybody thinks is like Man Personified, (that) when your character starts to do some of this stuff, that it's going to have a link between sex and violence and treating women badly?" And he said, "I don't think that it's my job to worry about that, I'm an actor".
  • The film was originally set in San Francisco, but it was deemed too similar to the Dirty Harry films, so it was changed to New Orleans.

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