Over the course of dinner at Halston's lavish apartment, Liza Minnelli (Krysta Rodriguez) recounts her dreadful experience shooting a movie on location in Mexico with Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds. She never actually mentions the film's title, but it was Stanley Donen's disastrous Lucky Lady (1975), a film that was plagued with problems on a daily basis and turned out to be a critical and box office bomb.