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PRIMETIME www.postmagazine.com 15 POST SEPT/OCT 2020 I like it…It's not thousands of takes. I try to edit as I direct. So it was quite easy to be sent a scene and give notes. It was not tough at all." What was the timeframe for editing episodes? "I think it was about three days to provide me with the rough cut to give notes on. I was in the writers' room the whole summer before we started shooting. Then, right when we began prepping, I went to New Orleans and began pre-production and shooting there. My co-show runner — Abe Sylvia — we made the decision for him to stay up there and stay on top of the writers' room, notes and editorial, and I would be the one that was the work horse, boots-on-the-ground, director, producer in New Orleans. It was a wonderful way to do it." How would you describe the show's soundtrack? "It's not unusual, but it's definitely not the New Orleans 'expected' sound. It can get quite cliché when you score something for the city that it's set in, so I had hard fast rule: Nothing that sounds like 'When the Saints Go Marching In' — ever! It's a very cool, modern film score in many ways." Were there VFX needs? "It's not too heavy. A lot of it is to fix things. We had some skyscapes put in. We shot New Orleans for Colorado, so we plopped in mountains [in the background]. There were some burning effects that we had to do, but there are not heavy, heavy visual effects. They were mainly there to aid in storytelling and make things cleaner." Did the pandemic affect the post process? "We had to do the ADR remotely. We had to have microphones delivered to people's houses. It was crazy! I couldn't be there." Did the show turn out the way you had initially envisioned? "It was fantastic. It met every expectation and beyond. I'm very happy." Filthy Rich airs on Fox on Monday nights at 9pm (EST). Christina Voros served as DP on the series. Shot in New Orleans, Filthy Rich was edited in New York City.