Of the casting of the two leads, producer and director Taylor Hackford said: "Each knew and admired the work of the other but I knew that it would require a story of substance to attract them to a project. (Mikhail) Baryshnikov had turned down films time and again, and he had declined to film the story of his defection. As for (Gregory) Hines, it called for him to play an American deserter. I was concerned that each might feel the story was too touchy, too close to sensitive areas; too near the edge for a black American to play, too close to reality for a Russian who has defected to the West to play."

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