The main reason Kaige Chen was keen to make the film was because he would never have been allowed to do so in his native China owing to all the sexual content.
Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes spent seven days in bed filming the sex scenes, where Graham refused to wear a 'modesty pouch'. "We couldn't be too explicit, because the scenes would have had to be cut. But it had to tackle sex in such a way to make the audience feel it had not been cheated," Fiennes said.
Supposedly the film has more sex scenes between the characters of Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes, but they were removed or destroyed due to being too explicit.
#2 on the list "15 Garbage Movies With A Ton Of Skin" published by website TheClever.
Heather Graham and Natascha McElhone again appeared together during the final season of Californication (2007).