In his autobiography, Giovanni Lombardo Radice recalled an incident he had with director Sergio Martino because of Patrizia Pellegrino:"In one episode I was a young aristocratic scoundrel, the grandson of Caterina Boratto, a great beauty of the 1930s, and in love with a girl played by Patrizia Pellegrino, a young Neapolitan starlet who wasn't Bette Davis, but who I found very sexy. We had a love-sex scene in an open car, and when I suggested rehearsing it, she heartily agreed and reacted to my heavy petting with some delighted laughing. But, raising my head from her bosom, I saw Martino towering over us with flaming eyes and immediately understood that I had made a blunder - he was bedding her."