Anna Cathcart plays young Drizella. She has previously played Drizella's daughter Dizzy in the Disney Channel movies Descendants 2 and Descendants 3.
This is the first episode in which Andrew J. West (since he became a series regular) and Lana Parrilla don't appear.
(Matty Finochio), who plays Marcus, also appeared as Tweedle in several episodes of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
In prison, when Drizilla/Ivy (Adelaide Kane) says to her mother Victoria (Gabrielle Anwar) "Orange looks better on the women on the Netflix show" she is talking about the famous show Orange is the New Black.