Lino Ventura, middleweight Greco-Roman wrestling European champion in 1950, missed the fake slap. Isabelle Adjani received a real blow that nearly knocked her out. Lino Ventura apologized to the young woman.
In the sequence where the whole family eats the pasta, Lino Ventura actually cooked it. He was a great cook. And during the shooting of all these takes, Francis Perrin ate seven plates - one for each take. And at lunch time, Lino Ventura suggested Perrin to take him out to have lunch together.