Lola FX did the special effects for Christian Bale's glass eye in the film. Director Adam McKaydid not want it to be too obtrusive since "in reality, you're not that aware of someone's glass eye, except the odd occasion when it doesn't move," so they painstakingly went through every shot to get it just right.
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Nancy Valen screen tested for the role of Madame de Tourvel, but lost to Meg Tilly.
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The film's sole Oscar nomination was for Best Costume Design, a category which its predecessor, Dangerous Liaisons (1988), had won the previous year.
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The leading actors Colin Firth and Annette Bening were both at the beginning of their film careers and unknown to a wider audience at that time.
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David Duchovny was considered for the role of Valmont.
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Fairuza Balk was 14 years old during production. She had a body double for scenes which contained nudity.
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The film's release in territories such as UK was deliberately delayed to allow time to pass following the release of Dangerous Liaisons (1988). According to Christopher Hampton, the screenwriter of "Dangerous Liaisons," Milos Forman attended several performances of his play, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," in London, and decided to film his own version of the Choderlos de Laclos novel. The competing production prompted Lorimar Films to rush "Dangerous Liaisons" into production, in order to beat "Valmont" into theaters. It worked, and "Dangerous Liaisons" was a critical and moderate box office success, while "Valmont" received mixed reviews and was a box office failure.
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Milos Forman: [Schiavelli] Vincent Schiavelli, Forman's good-luck charm, appears as a servant named Jean.
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Marcia Gay Harden auditioned for the role of Merteuil.
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The film represented a reteaming of several of the cast and crew of Amadeus (1984): director Milos Forman, producer/executive producer Michael Hausman, actor Jeffrey Jones, actor Vincent Schiavelli, cinematographer Miroslav Ondrícek costume designer Theodor Pistek, musical conductor Neville Marriner, makeup designer Paul LeBlanc and editor Nena Danevic.
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Meg Tilly and Colin Firth fell in love while they were making the film. A year later they had a son together.
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Fabia Drake's last credited film role.
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Michelle Pfeiffer was offered the role of the Marquise de Merteuil at the same time she was offered the role as Madame de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons (1988).
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Wil Wheaton was originally chosen to play Danceny, but the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) would not release him from his commitments, and the role went to Henry Thomas. (Ironically, Drew Barrymore, who played Thomas' little sister in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was nearly cast as Cecile de Volanges, Danceny's love interest, in the competing film, Dangerous Liaisons (1988).)
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Henry Thomas's last film of the 1980s.
Valmont - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Valmont - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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