Kathleen Quinlan, Jessica Lange, Debra Winger and Barbara Hershey were considered to play Lindsey Brigman. According to James Cameron, he almost cast Jamie Lee Curtis, but Kathryn Bigelow (his future wife) had already cast her in Blue Steel (1990). Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was finally chosen on the strength of her performances in Scarface (1983) and The Color of Money (1986). Cameron would cast Curtis in True Lies (1994) a few years later.