Trivia

Minnie Driver's father was from Swansea, Wales.

Port Talbot was chosen as one of the filming locations because it had working steel mill. This provided a good background for the working class poverty of Welsh miners and factory workers the producers wanted to portray.

Minnie Driver did her own singing and guitar playing.

Weather was very bad during the shoot, with rain and showers every day. Things were so bad that the producers started joking that every scene that was shot in sunshine would be in the final cut.

Producer Jon Finn said Minnie Driver was as much fun on the set as she is in the film.