'American Crime' trivia and fun facts

Regina King shot season 2 simultaneously with the second season of The leftovers.

For the first season, John Ridley came up with the idea of Felicity Huffman, who has naturally blue eyes, wearing brown contacts for the part for the added effect of giving her shark eyes. Her character was shut down and became somewhat impenetrable.

In the first season, Richard Cabral's character Hector Tonz talks about how he would like to work with computers as a job. That's exactly what his character, Sebastian, does for a living on season two.

John Ridley was so impressed with Lili Taylor's performance on the first season, in which he didn't envisioned as an important role, that he was determined to have her back for season 2 with a lead part.