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-At 82 years of age, Christopher Plummer won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this film and became the oldest person to ever win an Oscar for acting.

 

-The film is partly autobiographical because many of the events that happened to Hal and Oliver are based on Mike Mills' experiences when his own father came out as gay and began a homosexual relationship after Mike's mother died.

 

-Mélanie Laurent claimed that the canine star of the film, Cosmo, did not like her very much because he was jealous of Laurent's relationship with co star Ewan McGregor and director Mike Mills.

 

-Early in the movie, Oliver comments that his dog, Arthur (and other dogs in the same breed, Jack Russell terrier),are very cute to humans and people love them so much that they often put them in TV shows and movies. The most famous "acting" Jack Russells of recent years (Moose, who played "Eddie" in the TV show Frasier (1993) and Moose's son Enzo, who was the title character in Mon chien Skip (2000)) were both owned and trained by the same professional animal trainer, Mathilde de Cagny, whoowns and trains Cosmo, the dog playing Arthur.

 

-The role of Hal was intended for Max von Sydow, who declined due to the nature of subject in favor of appearing as a mute in Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près(2011). He also was the first choice to play Henrik Vanger in the English version of Millénium: Les hommes qui n'aimaient pas les femmes (2011). Christopher Plummerreplaced him in both of these films. However, both men lend their voices together in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011).

 

-'Melanie Laurent' was cast after director Mike Mills saw a video of her on Youtube giving an interview where she was smoking and wearing no makeup.

 

-Mike Mills did not originally intend for Anna to be French but after asking 'Melanie Laurent' if she could completely lose her accent and finding out she could not he changed the character for her.