This is the feature film directorial debut of choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied.
Benjamin Millepied and Elsa Pataky had worked on a Natalie Portman movie, Millepied was the dance choreographer for Black Swan (2010) and Pataky actually kissed Chris Hemsworth in the end-credit scene of Thor: The Dark World (2013) instead of Portman, and Pataky would later cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).