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I'm like, 'sorry, you're gonna have to drive an extra 20 miles…' You're probably not gonna be happy about it. "Early on, I had asked to close down Highway 78 on a weekend, and CalTrans basically laughed and said, 'doing that will require a 150-mile detour," Glaser says. "Interestingly, they didn't say no, they just said it's a 150-mile detour. I was like, 'noted.'" The same geography that isolates the characters also forces them into choices they can't undo. The people who have been running for 16 years run out of road. Without spoiling what takes place, the desert becomes the place where Bob's story and Willa's story stop being separate and where the sins of the father and mother are finally visited on their child. The End of the Road Among the other major California locations used were the La Purisima Mission in Lompoc for a compound of sympathetic nuns—which took ages to find due to the majority of the missions in California being under the control of the Catholic diocese—courthouse interiors filmed in Stockton, and various exteriors in Lancaster, Tracey and Folsom. All in all, the film shot roughly more than 100 locations with only seven of them on stage. Glaser began the project full time in April of 2023 and wrapped in July of 2024. "Outside of LA, there is a willingness and an eagerness to make things happen," Glaser says. "So whether it was Jen West in Sacramento or Cassandra Hesseltine in Eureka or Jacob in El Paso just putting us in the right rooms with the right people, you feel like you're working with people who want it all to succeed and to work safely and smoothly— and all of them prove that to you again and again, every day." Thinking over the entirety of the experience, Glaser is quick to shower praise on his team. "I mean, you can't do better than the group of people we had on this film. Just across the board. Having guys like Wesley and Daoussis and Cena means you can relax a bit because you know things are going to be handled and handled in the right way. Nothing on this shoot was easy, but it was all easier than it should've been, and that is a testament to the entire team. I couldn't be prouder of what we were able to pull off." ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER LOCATION DEPARTMENT SLM Michael Glaser/LMGI LM Michael Wesley/LMGI KALM/Location Coordinators Alyssa DiMare/LMGI • Keomanee Vilaythong/LMGI KALMs Mike Re/LMGI • Tristan Daoussis/LMGI • Golden Swenson/LMGI • Eric Crocombe/LMGI • Colleen Coviello/LMGI • Ron Haynes Tyler Brock • Kevin Danchisko • William O'Brien Rich Heichel • Kris Kreeger • Celia Fogel ALMs Susan Hennessy • Leon Henderon Jr. Location Assistants Jacob Cena/LMGI • Kyle Cox • Teo Kim Derek Bond • Jonathan Angel • Tyler Semons Unit Assistants Owen Legendre/LMGI • Levi Lokey Clockwise: Leon Henderson, Tristan Daoussis, Michael Wesley, Ron Haynes, Colleen Coviello, Celia Fogel, Will O'Brien, Mario Hernandez, Michael Glaser, Kyle Cox, Teo Kim "Texas Dip" Michael Glaser/LMGI