Editing Coal Miner's Daughter (film) (section)

==Production==
Lynn chose Spacek to portray her, making the decision based on a photograph of the actress despite being unfamiliar with her films, a story Spacek recounts in a [[Audio commentary|DVD audio commentary]] for the collector's edition of the film. Initially, Spacek was reluctant to participate, and asked to do her own singing in the film in hopes of scaring the studio from pursuing her for the role. At the time that Lynn prematurely announced on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' that "Sissy Spacek is going to play me," the actress was torn between friends who advised her to do Lynn's film and those who advised her to choose instead a [[Nicolas Roeg]] project due to start filming at the same time. Talking it over with her mother-in-law that evening, Spacek was advised to pray for a sign, which she did. She and her husband subsequently went for a drive in his mother's car, where the radio was tuned to a classical music station that changed formats at sunset every evening. As the couple pulled out of the parking garage, the title line of the song "Coal Miner's Daughter" came from the radio.<ref name="dvdcomm-apted">Sissy Spacek and Michael Apted. Feature commentary track, ''Coal Miner's Daughter'' 25th Anniversary/Collector's Edition, 2005.</ref>

In her 2012 memoir ''My Extraordinary Ordinary Life'', Sissy Spacek states that she became fast friends with Loretta Lynn and worked to emulate her unique accent and speech patterns by spending an afternoon tape-recording the singer while she told stories of her life, some of which made it into the script. She then listened to the tapes and repeated the lines until she captured her own version of Lynn. Though Spacek had started out as a singer, the producers considered dubbing Loretta's vocals over her performance. Lynn encouraged them to allow Spacek to do all of her own singing in the film and helped the actress learn to sing and play guitar in her style. The film's soundtrack featured Spacek's singing all of Lynn's hits sung in the movie, including "Coal Miner's Daughter".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Spacek|first=Sissy|title=My Extraordinary Ordinary Life|publisher=Hyperion|year=2012|isbn=9781401304270|location=New York|pages=185–187}}</ref>

The locations included [[Blackey, Kentucky|Blackey]], [[Eolia, Kentucky|Eolia]], [[Flat Gap, Kentucky|Flatgap]], Bottom Fork, [[Redfox, Knott County, Kentucky|Redfox]] in [[Knott County, Kentucky|Knott]] and [[Letcher County, Kentucky|Letcher Counties]] in Kentucky; and [[Pardee, Virginia|Pardee]], a former coal camp on the Virginia side of [[Black Mountain (Kentucky)|Black Mountain]]. Interiors of Lynn's childhood home were shot in a warehouse in [[Norton, Virginia]]. Scenes were also shot in Loretta Lynn's Madison, Tennessee, home on Barbara Drive.<ref name=samadams>{{cite news |author=Adams, Sam |title=Good memories still linger for 'Coal Miner's Daughter' |url=https://www.themountaineagle.com/articles/good-memories-still-linger-for-coal-miners-daughter// |newspaper=The Mountain Eagle |location=Whitesburg, Kentucky |date=April 5, 2017 |access-date=September 24, 2018 }}</ref>

The replica of Lynn's home in [[Butcher Hollow, Kentucky|Butcher Hollow]], built at Bottom Fork, Letcher County, Kentucky, was burned by arsonists. It was on the front porch of that house that [[Levon Helm]], drummer and singer of the rock group [[The Band]], made his acting debut as Lynn's father.<ref name=samadams/>

In an interview with [[Merv Griffin]] broadcast on November 7, 1978, Loretta Lynn said that Harrison Ford had been originally cast.