Inside the most expensive shoot of the year
Night crews, a closed bridge and a director who insisted on doing it for real.
The production spent eleven nights shooting a sequence that will last four minutes on screen, and everyone involved insists it was worth it.
The budget line that raised eyebrows was not the cast. It was the decision to build a practical set rather than composite it later.
The three a.m. problem
Crews describe the strange rhythm of night work: full energy at two, collapse at five, then the long drive home into rush-hour traffic going the other way.
Local businesses were compensated for the closures, and several report their busiest fortnight of the year serving the unit.
The finished sequence screens for the first time this autumn, with the director already telling anyone who will listen that they would do it again.
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