Director Amos Gitai said in an interview that he convinced the cast and crew to literally camp out in the desert where the opening sequences were shot. This began because he was tired of the long daily commute from the location to Tel Aviv, but he believes that the fact that most of them agreed to join him, living in tents without running water for days, added to the gritty realism of these scenes, because the actresses were just as unwashed and uncomfortable as their characters.
Amos Gitai had troubled relationships with these actresses. Anne Parillaud described: He's a tyrant, he's someone who humiliates you, who puts you in a state of humiliation, of control.
TV Interview may 16th 2021
On n'est pas couché