Lauren Lee Smith recalls getting a call from her agent on the requirements for the role of Leila, which clearly included not only nudity but on-camera live sex. "I said, 'Are you kidding?'" Then she read the script and recognized its origins. Then director Clement Virgo asked her to audition with Eric Balfour, whom he'd interviewed in Los Angeles. Virgo got them into a room to check their chemistry because he knew that without chemistry they had no movie. "There was apparently chemistry," Smith affirmed giving a giddy laughs.