Nashville/Trivia

• Actor Allusion: Sort of. Haven Hamilton's song "Keep-a Goin'" is taken from a poem Henry Gibson had first performed in a guest appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show a decade earlier.
• Contractual Purity: Juliette dislikes how her fanbase are almost entirely teenage girls and how she is restricted to performing with sparkle machines and dancers. When she tries to perform a more mature and low-key song at a concert, alongside the others, a critic smashes her, but her fans like it.
• The Danza:
  • Timmy Brown as Tommy Brown.
  • Charlie Bewley as Charles Wentworth.
  • Hal Phillip Walker is voiced by Altman associate Thomas Hal Phillips.
• Dawson Casting: Averted with Rayna's daughters Maddie and Daphne, as Lennon and Maisy Stella are the right ages. A borderline case with Layla Grant, "a 19-year-old twit" played by Aubrey Peeples - who though actually 19 when she got the part was 20 by the time her character's age was stated onscreen.
• Fake American: Sam Palladio (British) as Gunnar, Clare Bowen (Australian) as Scarlett, the Stella sisters (Canadian) as Maddie and Daphne, and Michiel Huisman (Dutch) as Liam.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Juliette Barnes, played by a well-known Friend to All Living Things, having difficulty with cute critters in "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)."
• Name's the Same: There was a show on FOX in 2007 also called Nashville. It was a reality show that taped only six episodes, four of which never aired.
  • It's also totally unrelated to the Robert Altman film (although at least one British journalist, writing in The Times, seems to think it's a remake).
• Non-Singing Voice: Averted - all of the actors do their own singing (as demonstrated in the special Nashville: On The Record).
• Throw It In: The breaking off of the airport parking lot gate by an exiting vehicle was not intentional.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Jack Coleman auditioned for a role, but the producers had already cast Hayden Panettiere and they didn't want audiences to be reminded of their previous association on Heroes. But they didn't know (or perhaps they did) that another cast member (Burgess Jenkins) had already worked with Miss Panettiere more than ten years previously in Remember the Titans...
  • Robert Duvall was Altman's first choice to play Haven Hamilton, but proved unavailable.
  • Gary Busey was supposed to play Tom, but quit before filming began. Keith Carradine, who was originally cast as Bill, took over the role. Even though he left, one of the songs Busey wrote for the movie ("Since You've Gone") stayed.