After the shoot, in July 2010, Josephine Decker sent Joe Swanberg an email, enthusing over their work together while also saying she felt uncomfortable with that opening scene. "I'm still brewing over the beginning close-up of my hand putting the condom on and then rubbing Kent's penis," she wrote, referring to her co-star Kent Osborne. "I wanted to say something," she continued in the email, "but I didn't want to interrupt the creative flow with fears or worries and put up restrictions. I really wanted all of our energy to just flow. And I kept being like, 'Just get over it, it's not a big deal.'" Decker focused on her aesthetic concerns: "That kind of image just says porn to me," she wrote.