Milchan was against casting "two Australians" in the American period piece (Pearce wryly commented in a later interview that while both he and Crowe grew up in Australia, he is British by birth, while Crowe is a New Zealander).
Milchan je bio protiv toga da se zaposle "dvojica Australaca" u djelu o američkoj povijesti (Perace je u jednom od kasnijih intervjua izjavio da, iako su i on i Crowe odrasli u Australiji, on je zapravo Englez, a Crowe je Novozelanđanin).