Diane Kruger appears as an interviewee in this documentary. Although it is not mentioned during the film, Kruger was at the time preparing to produce a TV miniseries biopic on the life of
Hedy Lamarr, with Kruger herself starring as Lamarr. The biopic was to be an adaptation of the 2012 biography Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by
Richard Rhodes. All three projects (the Rhodes book, the documentary "Bombshell," and the development of the screenplay for Kruger's miniseries) were awarded grants by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic organization that normally supports science and technology experiments and endeavors.