Dith Pran, the New York Times stringer who was the subject of the film The Killing Fields, worked with the crew as a translator.
In her book, To The End Of Hell, Denise Affonço notes that her late husband Phou Teang Seng (a victim of the Khmer Rouge) worked on Lord Jim as a stage manager and was responsible for the entire crews' canteen. Denise spent a month on the set (in Siem Reap) when she was pregnant with her son, Jean-Jacques.