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Asked about his explicit sex scene with Kristina Asmus, Ivan Yankovskiy said: "Yeah, we shot the footage ourselves. We drank wine, we clinked glasses, and started shooting. And it's always very funny. Because the director says to you, 'Come on!' and goes out the door to drink tea. And here you are, and she's here, and you have to shoot it all. And it's like she has a husband, out there in life, and he'll see everything. It's kind of creepy, really. But I understood: either you have to believe in it, or it makes no sense to do it."

In 2019, Kristina Asmus was in the center of the scandal after the premiere of this movie. In the film there is an explicit sex scene in which the actress, as well as her on-screen partner Ivan Yankovskiy, appeared completely naked in a phone video the artists themselves shot. The scene caused a negative reaction from the Russian audience who decided that Yankovskiy and Asmus had unsimulated sex on screen. The actress, who is a wife and a mother, was actively criticized and accused of depravity, and her husband Garik Kharlamov (a famous comedian) was nicknamed a cuckold in social networks. Kharlamov after the release of the movie did not make any claims against his wife, but, on the contrary, supported her. In 2020 Kharlamov and Asmus informed the public that they were getting divorced, but emphasized that this film has nothing to do with it.

This movie is based on the best-selling novel Text (2017) by writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, who adapted the novel into a movie script.