5/17/2023 0 Comments No time to dueAlso, it was supposed to be a cloudy, moody sequence and it was bright blue skies and sunshine almost the entire time. We had to push up our shoot schedule because otherwise the house we had built on the ice was going to sink away into the ice completely. At the beginning of March, we got an alert that the month was going to be unseasonably warm, which meant that we didn't have as much time as we thought we had. Because of its height in the world, we had a window in March to shoot it and after that it was going to melt. Norway provided some really difficult challenges, just based on time because we wanted to shoot at this frozen lake and the lake we chose for logistical reasons was near Oslo. And then we were in Windsor Great Park for the whole fern and woods sequence. We used a loch in Scotland for what would be a fjord, and VFX added in the height of the sides of the fjords so they looked more like the mountain sides you'd see in Norway. We actually shot that over three different locations in three different countries: Norway, Scotland, and England. I just used my inspiration of what I saw to construct a journey out of home, which became that chase sequence in the film. So, to me, it made sense with the story point. There's a lot of respect for privacy in Norway. It's very common to have these little country cabins that you might escape to, where no one really bothers you. When we were trying to imagine where Mr White might hide away in his multiple escape cabins, Norway seemed like an interesting and fun place because no one's gonna bother you up there. I saw the Atlantic Ocean Road, which ended up featuring in the movie, and I saw these fjords where they do a lot of salmon farming and I was just taken away by the beauty. I had done a road trip through Norway with a buddy of mine about two weeks before I even found out that this Bond job was a possibility – it was before Danny Boyle dropped out – and we ended up around Molde. What inspired those real-life filming locations? I’m guessing the winding highway, fjords, and forests of the movie’s car chase scenes weren’t built on a studio lot. It was also an amazing piece of street set. Whether it’s the first place we shoot or the last place we shoot, it has a special significance. It ended up being the last shoot in the movie. So it was very lucky that we were able to keep it on lot. Had we been dependent on a location, I can't even imagine what it would have cost us to have to go out there again. We ended up shooting part of it in May, and then saving the set for about five months until the end of production when we could come back to it again and complete the sequence. ![]() So, the whole set was built and ready to go and then suddenly we could only shoot certain parts of it. We actually ended up building it on Pinewood Studios lot and it was a fortuitous choice because we made that decision prior to going to Jamaica – and in Jamaica, Daniel injured himself. We couldn't shoot in Cuba, even though I really wanted to shoot there, because production requirements meant that we had to either stay in Jamaica or move back to the UK. ![]() It seemed like the whole reason that the CIA was reaching out to Bond was because they couldn’t go in, but he could, so it made sense to use Santiago as the sister city since Port Antonio was the jumping off point. I specifically wanted to Santiago, Cuba, because Santiago faces Port Antonio almost directly. ![]() We had scouted Kingston – and there are some parts of Kingston that have a similar architectural relationship with different parts of Cuba. Speaking of something out of nothing, how did you and your team create a replica of Cuba to film in? There wasn’t even a road to get to it so we had to fake the Land Rover departure and the scooter arrival. There was an old pool there that we rehabilitated, but other than that there was nothing else down there. There were no other houses built around it in fact we built that house on the beach so that's a complete set construction. I felt like it had to be just the right mixture of remote, but still somewhat linked to civilisation, and that little cove in particular offered that. I'd spent some time around GoldenEye a couple years prior and had gotten a sense of the mangroves and the waterfront there and how beautiful it can be. There was an image I had in my mind of what I wanted this place to look like. We found this little cove just outside Port Antonio - we did a couple of scouting trips down there. Where did you find Bond’s open-air waterfront villa?
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