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Anxiety and Gas Station Scouting
When I’m watching a movie/TV show, sometimes it’s hard to shut off the location scout part of my brain that’s analyzing every scene and thinking about how they pulled off their shoot. One location that always triggers instant anxiety is The Gas Station… Gas stations are, unsurprisingly, expensive. But unlike the majority of expensive locations,…
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Sonny and the Tollbooth
As a location scout, I love visiting classic movie locations, because it’s a fun exercise to consider why this of all possibilities was chosen. One great example is the toll booth scene in the Godfather where Sonny is gunned down… This was shot on Long Island, on a runway at the old Mitchel Air Force…
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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
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…