After seeing Aidan Quinn in this film, director Martin Scorsese hired him to play the lead central role of Jesus in the original Paramount Pictures development of The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) (which later got canceled). Quinn has said: "Marty quite liked Reckless (1984). I mean, he said, 'I hate this kind of movie,' but he thought Jamie Foley did a real good job for a first try".
In one scene we see that Tracy has a Jackson Browne poster in her room - Daryl Hannah was dating Browne at the time.
Aidan Quinn was cast in this film after, according to The New York Times, "a casting director wending her way through Chicago had taken a Polaroid picture of Mr. [Aidan] Quinn, and that was how he came to be submitted to James Foley, director of Reckless (1984) who hadn't been able to find the actor he needed to play the lead in the picture".