andy warhol interviewed spilsbury during his promotion tour, later describing the interview as "nutty," because spilsbury was "blowing his whole image" during their conversation. spilsbury told warhol that, before making the movie, he had been an art student married to a rich woman and that they had a baby together. he went on to state that they did not spend much time together because he needed too much time with his own thoughts, a detail that warhol found amusing. spilsbury told warhol that he was a friend of actor dennis christopher and had fallen in love with him, and that he also had later fallen in love with actor bud cort. warhol described spilsbury as "very drunk" during the latter part of the interview, and the latter also mentioned that "he'd been picked up by halston and woke up in bed with halston."