As he wanted to focus on directing, Joel Edgerton filmed his own scenes as Gordo after two weeks of shooting and completed them in seven days.
The first title of this movie was Weirdo, but executives changed it because they could sell it better with strategic marketing if they called it The Gift.
Joel Edgerton not only directed and starred in this movie, he also produced it and wrote the script.
The couple cannot figure out how Gordo knew their address. Gordo actually hears it repeated by the sales clerk arranging delivery in the first scene.