Tom Hiddleston received a letter from Woody Allen, along with fifteen pages of the script, offering him the role of F. Scott Fitzgerald. "It was three sentences long," Hiddleston told Entertainment Weekly. "Dear Tom, I'm making a movie in Paris this summer. I attached some pages. I'd love for you to play the role of Scott." Hiddleston now has the letter framed and hanging up in his home office.
Ernest Hemingway and Gil Pender visit Gertrude Stein, who is arguing with Pablo Picasso. In the background there is a portrait of her on the wall, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1906.
Corey Stoll was understandably not only nervous about playing the famous Ernest Hemingway, but also this particular version of Hemingway. Adding to that the fact that Woody Allen doesn't rehearse, when Stoll had to do his first scene, he didn't know whether or not he was making the right choices as an actor. When the scene was shot, Allen put him at ease as he told him, "That was perfect. That was exactly what I wanted." Allen is known for not giving many compliments to the actors, arguing that the fact that he cast them proves he trusts their talent.
Carla Bruni, who plays the tour guide at the Rodin Museum, was also the First Lady of France at the time of filming, being married to then-President of France Nicolas Sarkozy since February 2008.
The story that Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) discusses with Luis Buñuel (Adrien de Van) is the plot of Buñuel's film El ángel exterminador (1962).