George Clooney signed onto the project less than 24 hours after receiving the screenplay. His only hesitation was the fact that Noah Baumbach prefers to shoot numerous takes with his actors, which Clooney thought wouldn't work for an actor of his age and style.
This is co-writer Emily Mortimer's first feature-film screenwriting credit. Noah Baumbach first got to know Mortimer while she was chaperoning her children May Nivola and Sam Nivola on the set of Rumore bianco (2022).
The cast includes three Oscar winners: George Clooney, Laura Dern, Jim Broadbent, and one Oscar nominee: Greta Gerwig.
The sixth film collaboration between Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig after Lo stravagante mondo di Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), Mistress America (2015), Rumore bianco (2022), and Barbie (2023).
Kyle Soller and Alaïs Lawson both co-starred on the second season of Star Wars: Andor (2022), where they played Syril Karn and Enza Rylanz respectively.