During the first season, Aghdashloo used jewelry from her own collection. "Mostly Persian jewelry — and it's real jewelry, not costume. But I don't use my jewelry anymore and this is why: I live in Los Angeles and the show shoots in Canada and I had my husband FedEx the pieces I needed. They didn't arrive in time so I called and they said, 'You have to come and pick them up, it's merchandise and you have to pay for them.' I told them, no it's my own jewelry and they said, 'No, it's merchandise, you have to pay a tax.' They thought I bought this jewelry in the U.S. and I was importing it through Canada! So at 6 a.m. my assistant and I went to the airport and and it took so long to sort it all out that I got to the set only 10 minutes before the shoot. At minimum they're spending $100,000 a day on this TV series and I was thinking, 'I don't want to be the one costing them money because I'm late!' "