- Some of the film’s creative inspiration comes from director Sophia Coppola’s childhood experiences.
- The film’s soundtrack was produced by the Phoenix Band. Director Sofia Carmina Coppola and the band’s lead singer Thomas Mars are a couple.
- Director Sofia Carmina Coppola's father Francis Ford Coppola and brother Roman Coppola both served as producers in the film.
- Although the story of the film is fictitious, theappears in the film is actually a luxury hotel in Los Angeles; and the actor Stephen Dorff once stayed at the Marmont Hotel 5 months and spent my 21st birthday there.
- In order to prepare for the skating scene of the heroine in the film, Mary Elle Fanning conducted a 6-week skating training.
- The title of the film "Somewhere" was originally just a temporary title of the film, but until the film was completed, the director did not think of a better title, so "Somewhere" became the official title of the film .
Somewhere behind the scenes gags
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Johnny Marco: Hi, Cleo.
Cleo: Hey.
[beat]
Cleo: Why are you taking a bath next door? Is yours broken?
Johnny Marco: ...yeah.
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Johnny Marco: What's that book about again?
Cleo: It's about this girl that's in love with this guy. But he's a vampire, and his whole family's vampires. So she can't really be with him.
Johnny Marco: Why doesn't she become one too?
Cleo: doesn't she become one too? Cleo: Because she can't. He doesn't want to turn her into a vampire. And if she gets too close to him, he won't be able to help himself.
Johnny Marco: Oh, man.