The only time Thomas Shelby is shown on screen to consume food in the entire series is in this episode, where him and Charles are eating leaves while in Wales.
Gaite Jansen plays Tatiana Petrovna, and while her character is Russian, the actress herself is Dutch.
Some of the filming took place at Seacombe Ferry Terminal, Merseyside - literally down the road from where actor Sam Benjamin grew up, and where his boyhood Sunday league football team Bebington Rovers F.C. trained during their off season.