Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 18:41:30 GMT
American Hustle producer recalling key memories on set:
Can you share a memorable moment on sets?
Good or bad? (laughs) let me think. I have a bad one. I will never forget it. We were shooting a big street scene with several hundred extras and maybe 100 cars in the street, we were 45 minutes north of the city of Boston, we were not filming in Boston that Monday because the Boston Marathon was on. The city was sort of shut down. Shortly after lunch I came back to the set, we weren’t filming. I asked what is going on and somebody pointed to Christian Bale who has never held us up. He is very professional. He was on the phone pacing back and forth on the sidewalk, we were ready to shoot… he was talking to his wife. He put his hand up and said ‘I can’t work now.’ He hung up the phone and walked up to me and said ‘My wife was next to a huge bombing.’ I will never forget the rest of the day, it was so tragic that was a bad, bad moment…
Now for a good moment. Well there were so many! We laughed at a lot. David likes to have fun on the set. We were in New York City. The scene had Jeremy Renner having a conversation with Christian Bale at Central Park in front of the Plaza Hotel. The hotel and the city had given us till nine in the morning to finish. We had rehearsed the scene somewhere else the day before so we were ready to go. We had 150 crew, 200 extras, cars, it was complicated but the excitement and the energy that morning was magical and the scene turned out fantastic. There was another scene where Christian Bale and Amy Adams are dancing across Park Avenue, another gigantically busy street in New York City. There was music playing and they were dancing across the street and I was walking next to the director and I thought this is why I make films, for moments like this, it was magical.
www.thehindu.com/entertainment/interview-with-american-hustle-producer-george-parra/article8029344.ece
Can you share a memorable moment on sets?
Good or bad? (laughs) let me think. I have a bad one. I will never forget it. We were shooting a big street scene with several hundred extras and maybe 100 cars in the street, we were 45 minutes north of the city of Boston, we were not filming in Boston that Monday because the Boston Marathon was on. The city was sort of shut down. Shortly after lunch I came back to the set, we weren’t filming. I asked what is going on and somebody pointed to Christian Bale who has never held us up. He is very professional. He was on the phone pacing back and forth on the sidewalk, we were ready to shoot… he was talking to his wife. He put his hand up and said ‘I can’t work now.’ He hung up the phone and walked up to me and said ‘My wife was next to a huge bombing.’ I will never forget the rest of the day, it was so tragic that was a bad, bad moment…
Now for a good moment. Well there were so many! We laughed at a lot. David likes to have fun on the set. We were in New York City. The scene had Jeremy Renner having a conversation with Christian Bale at Central Park in front of the Plaza Hotel. The hotel and the city had given us till nine in the morning to finish. We had rehearsed the scene somewhere else the day before so we were ready to go. We had 150 crew, 200 extras, cars, it was complicated but the excitement and the energy that morning was magical and the scene turned out fantastic. There was another scene where Christian Bale and Amy Adams are dancing across Park Avenue, another gigantically busy street in New York City. There was music playing and they were dancing across the street and I was walking next to the director and I thought this is why I make films, for moments like this, it was magical.
www.thehindu.com/entertainment/interview-with-american-hustle-producer-george-parra/article8029344.ece