Badalato recalled of Hancock's direction: "He was always responsible to our budget and was very confident with the actors. He felt close to the material as it spoke to him in some bizarre way. John actually used to take his own pulse while he was shooting and I was completely intrigued by this." Because the film was shot in the fall months, the sequences that were shot in the lake required the actors to swim in very cold water. The scene in which Costello's character emerges from the lake in a wedding dress was filmed in late November on a day in which it had snowed.