François Civil and Karim Leklou had previously co-starred with director Gilles Lellouche in The Stronghold (2020), in which they all played police officers who worked together. In this film, Leklou and Civil play father and son.
Several of this film's actors (and also the director) often co-star together in at least one film by year nearly every year since 2020. Some of them have appeared together in two films and/or TV series released in the same year.
The May 2024 issue of Vanity Fair France featured 17-year-old actors Malik Frikah and Mallory Wanecque in a sexually charged photoshoot in bed with François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos (who are both in their 30s) to promote this film.
Based on the 1997 best-selling Irish novel "Jackie Loves Johnser OK?" by Neville Thompson, whose French title is "L'Amour Ouf".