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Winter 2026
last time?'" says Glaser, "and there's just a flash … a moment …
and she goes, 'Leonardo's coming here isn't he?' 'I took half a beat
and I look at her and her friends and I go yes.' And as soon as I said
that, literally that second, I hear the car door slam outside and it's
Adam walking up to the door with Paul and Leo.
"So, we all look toward the door and then she and her friends
look back at me and I'm like, 'just be cool. Just be cool, guys.' And
that was the time that I crashed a Christmas party with Leonardo
DiCaprio."
In an interview with Fandango, DiCaprio recounts that when he
went to that house he immediately "knew who this character was:
massively paranoid, protecting his child, everything is a danger,
everyone is not to be trusted. And when that template is there, you
go, 'OK, what if his past came back to haunt him and he's in the
middle of his living room getting stoned like The Big Lebowski and
Lockjaw comes back? What skills does he have that he remembers
or does not remember?'"
The house became a months-long anchor, rented from Melissa,
who was relocated for the duration. She had also agreed to one
pivotal change to the structure: "We ended up blowing out one
of the walls and adding Willa's room on the front of the house,"
Glaser says. Anderson wanted the house to feel like a place
someone lived in for protection, not comfort. A place where the
world stayed outside while Bob stayed inside.
Key ALM Tristan Daoussis/LMGI ran point in Humboldt,
managing the house construction during torrents of rain and
bringing neighbors on board for production support. "Paul didn't
want to know about basecamp," says Daoussis, "so we had to find
a place to put it and, as luck would have it, there was a guy right
next door named Dave who actually ended up being our medic…"
Bob & Willa's "Baktan Cross" house, Eureka, CA
