In The Green Room
RHH: I noticed one of the Bigfoot places on 101 in the movie. Where else did you film?
dJ: We filmed primarily in Eureka, Arcata, Moonstone Beach, Trinidad, a bar in Blue Lake. The main location, which served as the Truman house, is just outside of Eureka. Shooting in Humboldt was never up for debate, we could not use Southern California doubling as Humboldt. We always knew that it had to be shot up there and we’re glad we stuck to our guns.
RHH: How did you go about choosing the actors?
DG: It’s funny, you know — the streets of L.A. are actually lined with actors, outside of malls and Starbucks, and all you really have to do is go up to them and hire them …
dJ: They are essentially day laborers. You hand them a script and they hop on the bed of your truck and drive home with you …
DG: We found Frances Conroy in front of a Home Depot.
RHH: I have been to L.A.
dJ: We spent about nine months casting the film. The experience of getting each actor was different. We tried to cast several L.A. actors, but we found them to be lacking the depth that we were looking for. We didn’t want our main character to have a cookie-cutter movie-star type of face. I have a hard time watching Tom Cruise in a film, because I’m always thinking in the back of my head: “He is Tom Cruise, how bad could it be?”
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