Although the film's 32-day shoot may have helped give the actress a haggard edge, Waters admitted this was a concern. It's not a Hollywood budget. It was a whole action movie in 32 days, so she had to kick ass, basically, to get through. She had to really let us give her a makeover, so that she was a John Waters star, a Cecil B. DeMented star. She has to look fairly demented.
Movie stars are worried about that.
But everything seems to have worked out. She didn't bat an eye doing the scene in the porno theater where extras are, like, fake masturbating for three days. That was never an issue. As for Cecil, played by Dorff, Waters said there is a bit of himself inside of the character, whose name was inspired by a moniker a reporter gave Waters. But the match is far from perfect.