In the case of Foulkes' latest credit on director David O. Russell's newest film, the WWI and
Depression era-set Amsterdam, what the movie would look like depended very much on his ability to
match period locations for a story already slated to film in and around Boston playing for New York
with those in Los Angeles.
"They had a lot of locations lined up in Massachusetts, which, honestly, a lot of them would have
been really authentic, beautiful East Coast locations of the period," explains Foulkes. Russell's previous
films—The Fighter, American Hustle and Joy —had all been filmed in the area.
Supervising art director Alexander Wei says, "I think from that familiarity came an understanding
that there's a lot of architecture, a lot of buildings, a lot of locations that haven't been touched in a very
long time." Wei estimates they were about seven weeks out from principal photography when COVID
hit. Over the summer of 2020, "We had to retool and figure out what the other options were," he says.
All photos courtesy Robert Foulkes/LMGI unless otherwise noted
