'A Bigger Splash' trivia and fun facts
This is the tenth collaboration between director Luca Guadagnino and editor Walter Fasano.
This is the second of three movies in which Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes appeared together. The others are 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' (2014) y 'Hail, Caesar!' (2016).
Matthias Schoenaerts plays a documentary filmmaker in this film. In real life, he directed the documentary 'Franky'.
Ralph Fiennes's dancing scene was shot in one day. The actor had the song on his iPod and would dance to it in his free time.
It was shot in nine weeks, six days a week.
Margot Robbie was originally cast as Penelope but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and Dakota Johnson replaced her.
The tattoos on Penelope's body are Dakota Johnson's real life tattoos, the director and the actress decided to not hide them because Penelope, like Dakota, is not afraid of regretting something that is permanent.
Initially, Tilda Swinton didn't want to do this movie. Not this one nor others, due to the recent death of her mother, she ended up changing her mind and proposed the idea of this woman unable to speak into the established story of ancient histories and new lives thrown into relief by one another.
Tilda Swinton's wardrobe was created for her by Dior's Raf Simons.
A Sony leaked e-mail revealed that Cate Blanchett was the original choice for the role of Marianne. The part eventually went to Tilda Swinton.
Luca Guadagnino's first English-language film since 'The Protagonists' (1999).