According to cast and crew, working with Mike Myers on this film was a "horrible, nightmarish experience". Actors would wait for hours for Myers to come out of makeup, he only spoke to his handlers and director Bo Welch during down time on set, he had his handlers dress his trailer, and his area was all covered with tenting because he didn't want anybody seeing him, he also had a male assistant who sole job was to feed him chocolates from a Tupperware container, and the film ended up having long and pointless additional takes of scenes because Myers overruled Welch on whether they were good enough or not. This is not the only film set where Myers was prone to being a diva. Penelope Spheeris, director of Wayne's World (1992), did not have good things to say about her experience working with him either. One day, infuriated that there was no margarine for his bagel, only butter, Myers-who suffers from hypoglycemia-flipped the snack table over in a rage and stormed off into his trailer. "He was emotionally needy and got more difficult as the shoot went along," Spheeris says. "You should have heard him bitching when I was trying to do that 'Bohemian Rhapsody' scene: 'I can't move my neck like that! Why do we have to do this so many times? No one is going to laugh at that!'" To manage Myers' moods, Spheeris put her daughter in charge of making sure he had whatever snack he needed at any given moment (which she loathed doing). This is exactly the reason why she declined returning to direct Wayne's World 2 (1993), stating, "I just didn't have a good experience with Mike and I didn't want to do it again".

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