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walls then had to be tested for
asbestos and, once that was done,
they punched a hole in the back wall
of the kitchen and installed a new
sliding patio door and deck. Once
again, it seems the owners made out
alright.
As with the Pyre house location,
the tenants in the duplex were
moved out, but this time for an
additional month, allowing the
company to keep the location
dressed and to come and go as
needed over a seven-month period.
The location team also had to stay in
constant contact with the residents
of more than 60 neighboring homes
as, with each visit, they needed to
completely take over the streets,
dress them with period cars and
also have a place to hide work
trucks and other support vehicles.
The Bishop's House
Though not an anchor location, the Bishop's house which appears
in episodes four and ve was another that ended up being pivotal
and just as much for how the team got it as for what it provided
for the story.
"We had picked a location and were prepping it but when Lance
got to see it in person for the rst time, he just felt like it wasn't
quite right. It needed to be … grander," says Matt.
This was on a Monday, and the location was scheduled for Friday.
"I nally get to this location and the art department is already
there and looking around and I just said, 'Matt, I don't know if this
is the place,'" says Lance, "and I should qualify that by saying most
of the time I'd walk into a location and immediately go, 'you nailed
it, Matt.' But this one … I just wasn't sure, so I turned to him and
said, 'What can we do?' And every other producer was like, 'Lance!
What are you doing to him? What are you doing to us and our
schedule? It shoots in four days!' But that's why I love Matt … he
doesn't stress out. Or, OK, he's probably stressing out a lot but he
never lets me know about it."
For the record, Matt was stressed, and it was a massive scramble,
but once again, the scouts came through.
"One of our scouts had gone to this area west of Calgary called
Artists View," Matt recalls, "and he had knocked on these people's
door a couple times to try to get a look inside their place but they
just weren't interested."
The house had been built in the '70s and really hadn't changed
much so it would be perfect for the show. The trouble was that it
was owned by a retired couple, one of whom was a former plastic
surgeon, so they weren't the kind of people who were in need
of money or interested in having a crew traipsing through their
home. Undeterred, the scout eventually left the couple a letter
and, surprisingly, he got a call back.
