 During the bar scene with Wood, Orson Welles (qv) (Vincent  DOnofrio (I) (qv)) complains that Universal Pictures wanted him to  make a film with Charlton Heston (qv) cast as a Mexican, a  reference to _Touch of Evil (1958)_ (qv). In reality, Welles was  first approached by Universal only to act in that film, but Heston  was the one who insisted that Welles be allowed to direct it, too.