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says LM Michael Wesley/LMGI. "It was just to put us on the same
page and give them an idea of what we were hoping to pull off."
"The people in those initial meetings may not have known that
Glaser was going to push them as far as he was going to, but he
knows how to manage that," West says. "And I valued him as a
partner on this film. He and Michael Wesley knew exactly what to
do at what time, what to ask for, and more importantly, when to
push and when to maybe pull back."
The downtown chase in Sacramento, with cars ripping down
alleyways, slamming through gridlock traffic and French 75
firebrand Perfidia sprinting across bridges and through concrete
government corridors while police units and a helicopter close in,
was made possible through unusually deep civic cooperation.
Stunts, explosions, rolling street closures and aerial photography
unfolding in the government core of a state capital is not typical.
It required an open door.
Says Wesley, "We ended up doing things in Sacramento that
would be impossible in Los Angeles. Sacramento had never
really had that scale of production before, so there was a little
bit of a learning curve with them, but they absolutely bent over
backward to get us everything we needed."
Glaser put it simply: "Jennifer West is part of the reason the
car chase in Sacramento looks so good."
Sacramento gets its close up
