M. Emmet Walsh and Milo O'Shea each appeared in a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Walsh played the apothecary in the 1996 adaptation and O'Shea played Friar Lawrence in the 1968 adaptation.
Annette O'Toole had previously played Lana Lang in Superman III and would later go on to play Martha Kent on Smallville, in addition to voicing Atlanna in the unsold Aquaman pilot for the WB. Tommy Lee Jone would go on to play Two-Face in Batman Forever.