Shame

Shame

Brandon

Woman on Subway Train

Alexa

David

Marianne

Steven

Samantha

Elizabeth

Rachel

Loren

Sissy

Hostess

Cocktail Waitress

Skype Son (as Jake Siciliano)

Waiter

Live Chat Woman (as Charisse Merman)

Muscular Boyfriend

Bouncer

Late Night Lover #1

Late Night Lover #2

Conductor

Police Officer

Subway Rider (uncredited)

Neighbor (uncredited)

Waitress (uncredited)

New Yorker (uncredited)

The Standard Hotel Guest (uncredited)

During the 2012 Newsweek Magazine Oscar roundtable, Michael Fassbender said that he really urinated on camera during a scene in which his character was seen urinating (usually these sorts of bodily function scenes are simulated during the filming of a movie, if only because of the difficulty of replicating them over multiple takes). George Clooney, who was also participating in the roundtable, asked Fassbender how many takes he had to do of the urination, and Fassbender said three.

The sex scene with Michael Fassbender and Amy Hargreaves pressed against the glass of a room window in Manhattan's The Standard hotel was actually filmed above a busy street during the day. Spectators watched while the two actors, in the nude, smiled and waved at them from the hotel room above between takes. Since the Standard Hotel opened in New York in 2009, it has become notorious for its guests engaging in public sexual activity in front of their rooms' windows, sometimes for the entertainment of audiences on the street or in the High Line park below the building. This phenomenon has been documented in articles in New York Magazine, The New York Post, and The Observer, among other publications. In 2013, a Chinese couple fell to their deaths while reenacting this scene, when the window they were leaning against gave way.

Steve McQueen changed the location to New York because he couldn't get the money to make the movie in the UK.

The healing progress of Brandon's bruise on the cheek is completely random. Sometimes it's almost open and bloody, sometimes it's almost closed. At most only a few days pass between him receiving it and the last scene.

In the restaurant Brandon orders a bottle of pinot noir. When it comes the bottle is not a typical pinot-shaped bottle. When the wine is poured it's a very dark, inky coloured wine unlike a pinot noir.

When Brandon is on the subway looking at the woman we see Fulton behind him on the wall of the subway tunnel. The train moves and a few minutes have passed. Next, when the woman exists the train and he follows her, we see that they are again at Fulton station.

Brandon Sullivan: If you had a choice to live in the past or the future, and you could be anything you wanted to be , what would you be?

Sissy Sullivan: I'm trying, I'm trying to help you.

Brandon Sullivan: I'll fucking kill you!