Mr. Miller: "It led me to have this sort of scene of Marie Antoinette in a tumbril, trying to comfort her maid, sobbing on the way to guillotine. And saying: "It is alright, Vivi, I know that I am going to be Shirley MacLaine! Whoever that is." The thing is, that there's no room in Shirley MacLaine for Marie Antoinette. Shirley MacLaine is working flat out of being Shirley MacLaine. And she can't entertain a lodger! Particularily, a disembodied lodger."