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| Soon after we arrived at the Presidio in San Francisco, we parked our two vans so the camera crew could get everything set up inside. (Note the date: August 4, 1997.) Corin, posing here with make-up artist Stefanie Owens, was in fine spirits. I was just worried about getting caught - though I deny any illegal activity! Scott Spears, our cinematographer, played dumb tourist in front of the video camera, in order to distract a park security van that was watching us suspiciously from a couple hundred feet away: "We're not a film crew! Honest!" |
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| The camera was loaded and we were ready for the shot. We piled in the vans and drove closer to the bridge. I was still a little too timid to go directly under the bridge, even though that was the shot I really wanted, so we parked along the road where the two vans (and several burly crew members) could discreetly hide our activity away from any park security or passing tourists. We filmed the scene twice, and all was well. But I wasn't thrilled with the angle and decided we might as well go for it and head directly under the bridge, right next to the heavily touristed Fort Point. |
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| Here's Bill Millsap, our trusty Unit Production Manager, taking a moment away from the video camera to pose in front of it. He was impressed that we were filming on the exact spot where Kim Novak threw herself into the Bay in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. My decision to try the shot again under the bridge turned out to be a necessary one: Clint Canada, the assistant director, gave us the bad news that the previous shot was completely ruined: the film hadn't been loaded properly into the camera! There was no choice; we had to get the shot and it had to work. We did and it did.
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