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added a new round of cactus, power lines, and rock formations—this time all in the scale of the train. Of course, there's more to Asteroid City than just the town. I've been ignoring the black-and-white sequences in the theatres. The farm site for the town was located between Chinchón and the neighboring town of Colmenar de Oreja. In these two small towns, we found spots to shoot all the stage sets and backstage scenes. Each town has a small theatre—we took over both—making one into the Tarkington Theatre where Augie exits the crater scene and the Chinchón's theatre we stripped bare to become the broadcast stage where Bryan Cranston first introduces the show. The stage houses didn't have all the romantic bricks and radiators of a Thornton Wilder play, so we painted them. The whole stage house is covered in faux A. BACKSTAGE WITH THE REAR OF CRATER SET LOCATION IN COLMENAR DE OREJA, SPAIN. SET PHOTO. B. THE WRITER'S STUDY. ILLUSTRATION BY ALEXIOS CHRYSIKOS USING 3D STUDIO MAX WITH PHOTOSHOP. C. BACKSTAGE WITH FAUX PAINTED BRICK WALLS AND CATWALK. LOCATION IN COLMENAR DE OREJA, SPAIN. SET PHOTO. D. THE ALLEY OUTSIDE THE TARKINGTON THEATRE. BUILT SET WITH IN-CAMERA MINIATURE BACKGROUND. PHOTO BY ROGER DO MINH. A B C D