The Crew
Payne’s crew prepares a shot: “Forty-five people on Alexander’s set ?have worked every day on every movie he’s ever made,” says Dern. “You can’t help but be good with these guys.”
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Father-Son Scene
Dern (left) and Forte ?in a scene set up by cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, who says: “We don’t work with storyboards; we leave room for discovery, block and rehearse on location, 100 percent real locations. We see what the actors do, and we do our coverage afterwards.”
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Fight Scene
Payne, second from left, shows, from left, Bob Odenkirk, Tim Driscoll and Devin Ratray moves for their fight scene.
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Director Payne
Says SAG? and Globe nom June Squibb (with Payne), who played Jack Nicholson’s wife in About Schmidt and Dern’s in Nebraska: “Alexander said? 10 years ago Bruce and ?I wouldn’t have been ready to play these parts.”
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‘Best Experience of All Time’
From left: Papamichael, Dern, Forte and Payne on set. Says Forte, “It was ?the best experience? of all time, and? Bruce told me great stories about film history and gossip I’ll never divulge — I’m ?a secrets-holder.”