nickcarr

  • Euphoria Locations: How To Accidentally Find The Hotel Los Gatos

    Euphoria Locations: How To Accidentally Find The Hotel Los Gatos

    How about a bit more Euphoria S3 locations chat? One of my absolute favorite locations that I helped scout, the ominous Hotel Los Gatos, was also the most surprising for me to see on screen…because I thought it’d been rejected! In the show, Alamo sends some of his crew to a medical clinic in Mexico…

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  • CASTLES IN NEW YORK

    CASTLES IN NEW YORK

    When I was first assigned to find Gargamel’s castle, I thought I was going to get fired (a good example, incidentally, of the very unique professional concerns us location scouts grapple with). This was for the first Smurfs movie, and while it was unclear if an exterior was even needed, better to get ahead of…

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  • Solitary

    Solitary

    Once, I was scouting a decommissioned wing of a still-active prison when the guard asked if I wanted to try being locked in the solitary confinement cell with the lights off to see what it felt like. Nope.

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  • On Gold Mines

    On Gold Mines

    When I’ve scouted desert properties with old mines, the owners will tell me how people trespass and break into the mines in search of undiscovered gold, with no regard to deadly odorless gases or cave-ins. Later, owners will find tire tracks, discarded tools, and liquor bottles.

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