Erika Anderson does not like to remember the filming of the most difficult sequences: "If I think back to the first day of working on Zandalee, I still get goose skin. It was the scene in which Nicolas Cage paints my naked body, the sun and the moon on my breasts and a river that flows down beyond the navel. And since Cage is an actor who loves improvisation, to show the domination of the male over the woman he put in such brutality and such participatory violence, that I was terrified, I felt really violated. We had to stop shooting and do it all again the next day. The rushes were pure pornography, they traumatized me."
According to the May 1991 Premiere Movie Magazine story on Zandalee. - Originally Cage's character was supposed to paint Zandalee with red paint, but after watching the love scene prior to this scene, it was decided that a more tender side of the relationship be shown, so he painted Zandalee using light blue and yellow.
Filmed under the title "Adios, Thierry".
Nicolas Cage and Steve Buscemi later star in Con Air together.