“Again, those bedrooms and kitchens all had to have story function. We wanted a certain kind of sprawl and topography and flavor to this ranch where they used to be much heavier into equestrian sort of work, but they’ve fallen on leaner times. We wanted to find views of the mountains if we could. “The Blackledge property was extremely difficult for us to find because we could only find bits and pieces that worked. We had to take into consideration the safety elements because of what happens to it, so it was a massive undertaking.ĭiane Lane, left, stars as Margaret Blackledge and Kevin Costner stars as George Blackledge in director Thomas Bezucha’s “Let Him Go.” Kimberley French “We could not cheat as we often do in set design by having the main floor in one place and the second story in another place, so we built the whole house with the two floors. There was that double swinging door and all of it had to be worked through. There’s so much action on the page with George dropping the boy over the railing, we had to look at who was sleeping where, and there was the central staircase which would feed the upstairs and downstairs relationship. “The rest of the interiors were built-in studio, and that was a challenge for us because we knew it was going to take a long time to build. “We built the exterior of the house on location knowing what was going to happen to it in the end, so it was a shell with just enough connective tissue to get us in and out of the back porch covered. There’s a level of Victorian decoration so you can feel how nice it used to be and the audience can imagine the beauty that it used to be. “So, we talked about his sense of wounded pride. Blanche’s boys aren’t exactly what she had hoped, and Blanche talks about it in her dialogue. “It was a fourth or fifth-generation home that has fallen on hard times. “The idea was that we wanted it to be like an Andrew Wyeth painting or the house in ‘Days of Heaven,’ with this gothic prairie Victorian quality to it in the middle of nowhere, and the house needed to have this austerity to it. As an audience, they wait so long to get there but it’s talked about and so it was going to be so important to the story. It’s the dragon’s den and the lair of the villainess. “The Weboy house is where we had to wind up.
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