Editing The Crying Game (section)

== Production ==
[[Neil Jordan]] first drafted the screenplay in the mid-1980s under the title ''The Soldier's Wife'', but shelved the project after a similar film was released. 
A 1931 short story by [[Frank O'Connor]] called ''[[Guests of the Nation]]'', in which IRA soldiers develop a bond with their English captives, whom they are ultimately forced to kill,<ref name="conversation">{{cite video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2lhfB53Bs  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/HD2lhfB53Bs| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=In conversation with The Crying Game cast |author=British Film Institute |author-link=British Film Institute |publisher=YouTube |date=2017-02-21 |access-date=2018-05-23}}{{cbignore}}</ref> partly inspired the story.

Jordan sought to begin production of the film in the early 1990s, but found it difficult to secure financing,<ref name="conversation" /> as the script's controversial themes and his recent string of box office flops discouraged potential investors. Several funding offers from the United States fell through because the funders wanted Jordan to cast a woman to play the role of Dil, believing that it would be impossible to find an androgynous male actor who could pass as female.<ref name="Watkins2017">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/21/how-we-made-the-crying-game-neil-jordan-stephen-rea-miranda-richardson |title=How we made The Crying Game |author=Jack Watkins |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2017-02-21 |access-date=2018-05-23 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612184958/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/21/how-we-made-the-crying-game-neil-jordan-stephen-rea-miranda-richardson |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Derek Jarman]] eventually referred Jordan to Jaye Davidson,<ref name="Watkins2017" /> who was completely new to acting, and was spotted by a casting agent while attending a premiere party for Jarman's film ''[[Edward II (film)|Edward II]]''.<ref name="conversation" /> Rea later said, "'If Jaye hadn't been a completely convincing woman, my character would have looked stupid'".<ref name="auto5">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/jaye-davidson-oscars-big-surprise-172819/ |title=Jaye Davidson: Oscar's Big Surprise |first1=Jeff |last1=Giles |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=1 April 1993 |access-date=21 June 2019 |archive-date=7 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607103911/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/jaye-davidson-oscars-big-surprise-172819/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The film included full-frontal "male" nudity on Davidson's part; he was filmed nude in the notable bedroom scene in which Dil's sexual anatomy was revealed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/12/stephen-rea-on-the-crying-games-sex-surprise.html |title=Stephen Rea on The Crying Game's Surprise Penis |work=Vulture.com |last=Vineyard |first=Jennifer |date=5 December 2014 |access-date=21 June 2019 |archive-date=7 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607102917/https://www.vulture.com/2014/12/stephen-rea-on-the-crying-games-sex-surprise.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The film went into production with an inadequate patchwork of funding, leading to a stressful and unstable filming process. The producers constantly searched for small amounts of money to keep the production going, and the unreliable pay left crew members disgruntled. Costume designer [[Sandy Powell (costume designer)|Sandy Powell]] had an extremely small budget to work with and ended up having to lend Davidson some of her own clothes to wear in the film, as the two happened to be the same size.<ref name="conversation" />

The film was known as ''The Soldier's Wife'' for much of its production, but [[Stanley Kubrick]], a friend of Jordan, counselled against the title, which he said would lead audiences to expect a [[war film]]. The opening sequence was shot in [[Laytown]], [[County Meath]], Ireland, and the rest in London and [[Burnham Beeches]], Buckinghamshire, England.<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Film Programme |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tq1vt#synopsis |series=The Film Programme |series-link=The Film Programme |credits=Presenter: [[Francine Stock]] |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC Radio 4]] |location=London |airdate=17 September 2010 |access-date=17 September 2010 |archive-date=26 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026121254/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tq1vt#synopsis |url-status=live }}</ref> The bulk of the film's London scenes were shot in the [[East End]], specifically [[Hoxton]] and [[Spitalfields]].<ref name="Oliver Lunn">{{cite news |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/crying-game-london-locations |title=How London has changed since the Crying Game |author=Oliver Lunn |publisher=British Film Institute |date=2018-01-26 |access-date=2018-05-26 |archive-date=26 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526190057/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/crying-game-london-locations |url-status=live }}</ref> Dil's flat is in a building facing onto [[Hoxton Square]], with the exterior of the Metro on nearby Coronet Street. Fergus's flat and Dil's hair salon are both in Spitalfields. Chesham Street in [[Belgravia]] was the location for the assassination of the judge, with the now-defunct Lowndes Arms pub just around the corner.<ref name="Oliver Lunn"/>