![]() ![]() I can imagine there’s that feeling now of, you know, ‘Man, even the basics of this are mystifying to me, and now there’s all this new stuff I need to deal with.’ It’s a really interesting time. Whether it was the sexual revolution or the entwining of technology and romance, there’s always something. “The rules of courtship change for any generation. I couldn’t have asked for anything better.” There was no TV, no internet, so they had no choice but to keep each other company and entertain each other. They were basically having a candle-lit campout every night. The crazy thing is that where Miles and Analeigh were staying, they were without power. It was extremely helpful for the cast and the crew to maintain that mindset. Everyone was basically retuning to their little bubbles at the end of the night. Whether we were down for two days or back up to work, the city was anything but business as usual. Everyone’s been through a version of that. Then dawn comes and sort of pops the bubble and you can’t believe that it ever happened. So we found an amazing loft in Brooklyn and cut it in half with a false wall: one half became our set and the other half became our home base for our production. The mood or the vibe that we strived to create with the movie was reminiscent of when you’re first falling for someone and you stay up all night together for the first time and you’re in this bubble and you feel like the rest of the world has melted away. “ I can’t quite imagine how we would’ve pulled it off if we hadn’t found such a great location. A huge part of our film takes place at Alec’s apartment, so it was key for us to find a space where we could set up camp because we were going to be there for so long and we were doing something so quick that you couldn’t be racing all over town for equipment or wardrobe or art. ![]() ![]() ‘SNL’ Season 48 Hosts: Megan Thee Stallion, Miles Teller, and Brendan Gleeson Make Their Debuts I was pretty much ready to collapse at the end.” It was this wild thing as a lifetime New Yorker to see my city transformed by this completely singular happening and at the same time be desperate to get back to work on shooting the movie. Going forward, I will have to work with a trainer or something…. We were losing locations because huge parts of Manhattan were blocked out for weeks afterwards. People may remember that there were crazy gas shortages in the region at the time, so it was a question of whether we could even get gas for our generators or our trucks. It was a crazy thing where public transportation was down, so it was really difficult for people to get to set. We were in a situation where all production in New York went down for a couple days - I think we were one of the first productions to go back up. “Making a small budget film in 19 days in New York City is challenging enough without throwing in a natural disaster, so I don’t encourage anyone else to stack the decks against themselves quite to that degree. ![]()
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