Montana’s own ‘Coral Gables’ estate is El Fureidis (‘Little Paradise’), 631 Para Grande Lane, a Mediterranean villa set in 10 acres of grounds, built for Waldron Gillespie, a wealthy upstate New Yorker, by Bertram Goodhue. Sosa’s ‘South American’ estate, where Omar ( F Murray Abraham) is ousted, is Casa Bienvenida, Park Lane at East Valley Road, a rococo Italianate villa designed by architect Addison Mizner for magnate Alfred E Dieterich. The movie’s two estates, one supposedly in ‘Bolivia’, one in ‘Florida’, are both in the town of Montecito, on the California coast a few miles east of Santa Barbara. The ‘Sun Ray Apartments’, where Montana’s brother is dismembered by chainsaw, has been revamped to become Johnny Rocket’s, 728 Ocean Drive between the Beacon and Colony hotels near 7th Street. Montana’s arrival in the art deco district of Miami Beach is impossible to fake, though, and was shot on Ocean Drive at 13th Street. Miami’s ‘Little Havana’ district, where Montana starts out working at the ‘El Paraiso’ lunch stand, was recreated at Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. The ‘Florida’ internment camp, where Montana wins his freedom by killing a Castro agent, was constructed under the knot of freeway interchanges at the intersection of I-10, the Santa Monica freeway, and I-110, the Harbor Freeway, downtown Los Angeles behind the New Los Angeles Convention Center. Set in Miami and Bolivia, the movie’s locations are mostly divided between Florida and California. Smalltime thug Tony Montana ( Al Pacino) grabs the opportunity to make it as a big-time drug lord. When Cuban leader Fidel Castro opened up the harbour at Mariel in May 1980 to allow 125,000 Cubans to join relatives in the US, he took the opportunity to export some of the country’s toughest criminals. Trashed on its first release, Brian de Palma's updating of the old gangster story – it's basically Richard III with coke, scripted by Oliver Stone – is now regarded as a classic. The filming of the show was hit by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, but cast and crew were able to reconvene after the first lockdown and get it completed.Another one of those movies where the critics got it totally wrong. You’ve never seen a lake so big, it is absolutely ginormous and it is incredible to see it on camera.” We do a lot of filming with and in water which is exciting and fun but also tough because we did shoot in Lough Dan, which is the lake in Ireland. “Some of the practical challenges were huge. "It gave us the opportunity to really push the cinematic boundaries, which we would have struggled to achieve with the resources and time we had in England. “We wanted locations that people may not have seen before and that needs beautiful architecture, incredible vistas and Dublin offered all of that," he said. Maza explained that filming in Ireland rather than England was ideal for the show. The Drowning was filmed in Dublin and the surrounding areas, including Lough Dan, the location for the lake scenes. “With Jonas Armstrong, again he is someone I have admired for many years and he was so good in The Bay last year and I really wanted to work with him, he was our first choice and we were lucky that the people we wanted said yes.” Where was it filmed? “And then with Rupert Penry-Jones I had actually worked with years ago on Silk for the BBC and he has been off in America but he is such a good actor. She goes on such a journey and so I think this is up there with her best performances. “I have been a fan of Jill Halfpenny’s for a long time, the work she has done has been consistently brilliant, but I do think her performance in this has blown away all of us. Jodie’s friend and partner Yasmin is played by Jade Anouka and Babs Olusanmokun plays Ade.Įxecutive producer Jason Maza said: “We knew we had a fantastic script, so we really wanted a show that felt like we were getting premium talent on the screen. Cody Molka plays Daniel, the boy Jodie has become fixated with, and Daniel’s father Mark is played by Rupert Penry-Jones.
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