A majority of the extras for "The Apple" were students at Berlin American High School. Ray Shell, who portrayed Shake and described making the film as "big fun," was replaced by a stunt double for his dancing shoots four times, and a scene for a song titled "Slip and Slide" was cut from the final product due to Shell's poor dancing. Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick served as choreographers for "The Apple", Warwick featured in the film dancing in the sequence for "Coming." Lythgoe described making "The Apple" as "really, really depressing on some days" and "very, very stressful," adding that most of the cast and crew "didn't really like the script. I mean, we really didn't." Lythgoe and Warwick later both started working in singing competition shows like "American Idol", which led to conspiracy theories by multiple people that "The Apple" predicted their later work. Lythgoe shrugged these off: "There were a lot of singing competitions going on at the time. So it never really hit me that 'the search for talent' was "Popstars" and "Pop Idol" and "American Idol", as much as just thinking that "The Apple" was kind of a Eurovision-style song competition.