For the film:
- Homegrown Hero: The US President gets blown up during a visit to Salamanca, yet the other leads are an American bodyguard, an American newscaster, and American tourist and some Spanish cop respectively.
- Retroactive Recognition: Zoe Saldaña plays the reporter in the opening chapter who is killed in the blast. She would be more prominent in her next film with Sigourney Weaver.
