SPAIN: We were having such a great time running in the halls of the Ramada from room to room.BROWN: I think we’d get in a little bit of trouble becau
SPAIN: We were having such a great time running in the halls of the Ramada from room to room.
BROWN: I think we’d get in a little bit of trouble because there’d be other guests in the hotel, and we might be making a little too much noise. People were knocking on our door more than once to be peaceful.
PHILLIPS: At one point we had two days off, so we had a huge party in Effie’s room.
BROWN: Kat narc’d! [Laughs] I will say this: I am [18] years sober now. But I remember I threw a blowout party.
TOWNE: I think there’s some things that we probably can’t tell you.
LABARTHE: I have no comment at all. Those are stories I tell in private. People are sworn to secrecy.
BROWN: I’m super glad there were no iPhones back then.
CREEL: I think hindsight is 20/20. I’ve smoothed out all the rugged edges, and I only remember the positive stuff.
DAVIS: We were all in it together, going through the hell that was Palmdale.
DUVALL: It was cool.
SPAIN: We were out in the desert, all wearing skimpy suits.
PHILLIPS: As soon as they would say “cut,” people would race up to us and throw coats on us.
BABBIT: There was a cool going around.
BROWN: Everybody, my whole staff, literally got pneumonia. Walking pneumonia. The crew was falling like flies.
MICHAELY: I remember Cathy got infirmed. She was coughing. And she had one line in this scene, and they were like, “Cathy, go home. Go rest.” And she was like, “No, I’m not going home. I do not leave my fellow actors.”
BROWN: When we left, the hospital was sort of melancholy to see us go because we sent so many people to them.
BROWN: Then the set blew down.
SPERLING: It was really windy in Palmdale.
KAMERMAN: I forget—there’s a French term that Jamie used.
BABBIT: I said, “Wouldn’t it be so cool to do a total Magritte reveal at the end? Where the camera pulls back from the sets to see them all lined up outside, with the sky behind them?” So we brought them out to Palmdale.
LABARTHE: I mean, it’s like a sailboat with the sail up.
BROWN: We couldn’t do anything besides watch it blow away.
SPERLING: I thought, Oh God, Jamie’s gonna freak out. And she was like, Oh, okay, well, moving on to the next thing.
MORIARTY: She was so tranquil.
BABBIT: I had a thousand more things to shoot that day.
BROWN: The catering. That’s a terrible story.
DAVIS: I chose the caterer, and failed miserably on the first try.
BROWN: That’s the only time I think the crew revolted.
DAVIS: Somebody found a band aid in the lunch.
SPERLING: Literally disgusting.
DAVIS: I had to replace them halfway into the shoot.
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