Dancer in the Dark

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• During the Scatterheart-sequence, Selma (Björk) lies down on a stack of birch logs. In Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish, "Björk" means "birch". Lars von Trier said he thought it would be fun to put in the movie.
• Stellan Skarsgård was originally cast in the role of Jeff, Selma's would-be boyfriend, but was unable to play a part as large as that due to a scheduling conflict (with Aberdeen). The part of Jeff went instead to Peter Stormare, and Skarsgård ended up playing the substantially smaller (only two scenes) role of Selma's eye doctor.
• When the workers are shown leaving the factory near the beginning of the film, we can briefly see a man and a woman, each holding a baby, waiting in the parking lot. The woman is Bente Frøge Trier, wife of writer-director Lars von Trier; the two infants are their twin sons. Von Trier originally cut these cameos out of the film, but reinserted them following protests from his wife.
• The name of the Judge is A.D. Mantle, a reference to Anthony Dod Mantle. He was the director of photography of three Dogme 95 films (Festen (1998), Mifunes sidste sang (1999), and Julien Donkey-Boy). Director Lars von Trier was one of the founders of the Dogme 95 movement.