Sophie Favier quit high school in Lyon at the tender age of 16 and headed to the Cannes Film Festival, where she was spotted by the famed figure photographer Francis Giacobetti. He asked the teen to perform "a very sexy little dance sequence" in an underground video he was making, to be sold only in Japan. Hesitant, Sophie agreed to do so only if she could use the pseudonym "Tamara". That's how the segment "Tamara" of this movie was born.