The cast and director expressed some regret over the scene in which Sebastian blackmails Cecile for sex. "What they're doing to her is horrible. We could never make that scene today, let's put it that way," Gellar said. Although he didn't feel the scene was very "lascivious" at the time, Phillippe said, "I'm not sure I saw it the same way you would see it in retrospect."
Blair, on the other hand, argued in favour of the scene. "Cecile enjoyed almost every moment of it! She was so odd. She wasn't a shrinking violet. She wasn't upset," Blair said. "She was almost delusional, for the better."