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8 8 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 3 Childhood Home: I had done an extensive amount of research into Al's actual childhood home, looking at old photos and watching or reading various interviews Al had given about his upbringing. Despite all I had learned, I decided to disregard the tasteful midcentury rattan furniture that Al's real mom had decorated their home with and replace it with a more utilitarian, lower end furniture of that period to reflect our earnest biopic despondency. The set decorator Laura Harper did an amazing job of sourcing the perfect mix of items that were probably very nice when the Yankovics purchased the home in the early fifties but were feeling their age at the start of the film in the early seventies. We also recreated a number of period wallpapers from the late forties and early fifties to adorn the walls of the living room, dining room and kitchen. All were given a heavy age to reflect the depression that had set in since the birth of their unwanted son (another untrue tenant of our story). One room in the house that I really wanted to recreate authentically as possible was Al's childhood bedroom. Unfortunately, there were no good photos of his room from his youth, so the Art A. YOUNG AL MEETS THE ACCORDION SALESMAN. PRODUCTION STILL. B. CLOSE-UP OF SET DRESSING FROM AL'S CHILDHOOD BEDROOM SET, INCLUDING RECREATIONS OF AL'S FAVORITE MAD MAGAZINES FROM THAT PERIOD. C. JULIANNE NICHOLSON AS AL'S MOM. VINTAGE WALLPAPER WAS PRINTED BY ASTEK WALLCOVERINGS. D. THE YANKOVIC DINNER TABLE. PRODUCTION STILL. A B C D