'Marriage Story' trivia and fun facts
Inspired on a real character
Laura Dern 's character is loosely based on a real life female Los Angeles attorney who represented Scarlett Johansson and Laura Dern during their respective divorces.
Driver and Baumbauch, together again
This is the fourth film in which Adam Driver works under director Noah Baumbach. In addition to this film, we have been able to see Driver in 'The Meyerowitz Stories', 'As long as we're young' and 'Frances Ha'.
Driver and Dern
Adam Driver & Laura Dern also co-stared in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The fourth
Adam Driver's fourth collaboration with Noah Baumbach.
The Bowie's costume
When Nicole is dressed up as David Bowie for Halloween, Charlie mistakes her outfit for Bowie's "Station to Station" outfit. Nicole swiftly corrects him by saying "Let's Dance". However, neither of them are right. Nicole is wearing David Bowie's outfit from his 1983 Serious Moonlight tour.
In one take
Adam Driver's performance of Sondheim's Being Alive from the musical Company, was recorded live and done in 1 take.
The cast collaborated on the writing process of the script
Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Laura Dern were cast before Marriage Story's script was complete. Hence, throughout the script writing process the cast collaborated with Noah Baumbach on certain character aspects.