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as they would be letting the map reveal itself.
Recalls Glaser: "I would get a phone call while they were at the
airport or in the car on a drive, and they'd tell me where they were
or where they were going and then I would feverishly pick up the
phone and start calling people, whether it be film commissions or
trying to suss out who owns a building, tracking down management
companies or people in various municipalities, and I would try to
get them in the door of some places."
Doing this on the fly wasn't easy. The team also had to quickly
and regularly pivot for a variety of reasons.
"I would say this project … shape-shifted a lot," laughs
Martin. "When we handed off to Glaser, we just said, 'This is the
groundwork that we've laid, and these are some of the contacts
we made along the way' because as you start to go into a city and
start to talk to people, they do start opening doors for you."
"Paul and Flo are pretty good about getting in the doors most
of the time, to be honest, but it's also like a location manager's
nightmare to have a production designer and director on their
own trying to, like, kick open the door to some of these places,"
laughs Glaser.
Martin, who had previously worked with Glaser on Anderson's
Licorice Pizza, praised him and his team.
"Michael and the entire team just really blended into Paul's
style of working," she says, "and so I felt deep gratitude for them
and, in particular, for the way they worked with locations that
haven't been filmed before. We're always looking for the best
location to fit the story which is not always the most logistically
easy. But Glaser and his crew never got phased by it."
"The unspoken mantra between Florencia and me was to
never search for a location out of convenience," says Glaser.
"Florencia reminded us that we can—and eventually did—find
the right locations for the story."
