Sin City: A Dame to Kill For - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[sandra]

In the dancing scene before Nancy talks with the dead John Hartigan, she dances to a song that was also featured in Criminal Minds: True Night (2007). The episode shows Frankie Muniz playing a graphic novelist who creates graphic novels similar to the way the segments in the movie are shown. The episode also includes a Frank Miller quote at the end of the episode.

[gerald]

The lead role was originally offered to Johnny Depp, but he declined due to scheduling conflicts. Joseph Gordon-Levitt later replaced him, despite offers to star in other movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Godzilla (2014). In 2006 when Rodriguez first started putting together ideas for "Sin City 2", he considered Depp for the part of Wallace, the lead character of "Hell and Back", which he was hoping to adapt as one of the film's three segments. The idea to adapt "Hell and Back" was scrapped, however, and Rodriguez chose to adapt "Just Another Saturday Night", "A Dame to Kill For", and the never-published "The Long, Bad Night" instead.

[linda]

When Nancy is ascending the stairs in Senator Roark's mansion, the portrait seen behind her is Sir Andrew Mitchell (1708-71), British Ambassador to Prussia during the Seven Years' War.

[nina]

The last film of Powers Boothe.

[harry]

DIRECTOR CAMEO (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez When Nancy has the television on in her apartment, the two bums in the show she is watching are played by Miller (writer and honorary director) and Rodriguez (director).

[manuel]

In an Aug. 2014 interview with Elle magazine, Eva Green was asked if she ever had any trepidation about being naked so much in the movie. She said "Any actor and any actress are very nervous when we have to do that kind of scene. It is not gratuitous [with Ava], the way she uses sexuality to get men and use men is part of her character. But also it's not realistic. It is art. Robert lights it in such a way. He promised me there would be lots of shadows and stuff and things would be added in post. That was very important. But on the day you feel nervous. It's very strange. You're so stressed that it's like, 'I'm not naked. I'm not naked. I'm not naked.' And then you kind of forget that you're naked." She then talked about what she did to prepare for being naked in front of cast and crew. "A lot of actors get drunk. But I was cast a week before shooting so I didn't have time to do much prep at all: So no time to go to the gym. I put myself in the hands of Robert and asked him to remove the cellulite in post-production ... I mean, can you imagine a femme fatale with really bad cellulite? That would be another version of 'Sin City'!" She joked. When asked what she thought about Americans being so prude when it comes to nudity and sex, she replied "It's very subjective. In this movie it's so not pornographic. It's very decent, I think."