Lisa Ann Walter, who plays Chessy, later told Bustle about the lengthy experience of doing the scene, which took a couple of days to get right, and how it made her question her acting abilities.
"About halfway through all those takes, people were giving me different directions and Charles [Shyer] started to have other ideas and started to ask Nancy [Meyers] to ask me to do different things," she said. "I started to question what I was doing and thought, 'Oh, my god. I'm f*cking this up. Maybe I'm doing the wrong thing and maybe I suck, maybe I'm a terrible actress, maybe I'm just awful.'"
Walter said that when she took a break from doing the scene, Dennis Quaid "put his hands down on either side of me."
"He put his forehead against mine, and he said, 'I think the work you're doing is magnificent,'" she said. "And I burst into tears. It's just little things like that — it's how many years later, and I'll never forget how that made me feel."