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John Roger, Executive Producer: By the way, can we talk about how we stole this entire patio set?
Chris Downey, Executive Producer: Oh that’s a great story.
Dean Devlin, Executive Producer and director of this episode: Go ahead.
John: Alright, so this is very Leverage-y. So we get to the location at some ungodly hour of the morning, and we were supposed to be in a cafe across the street. Pretty standard, they’re watching from the cafe across the street. We get there, and they tell us, “You cannot use our property.” We couldn’t use the cafe.
Dean: We had lost the location.
John: We had lost the location. At 7 o’clock in the morning. As we’re about to shoot. And so there is a coffee shop that is in the base of the building where we’re shooting, that had all that patio furniture chained up outside. I was like, “I mean, I know these people would give it to us if they were here, they just don’t open for another half hour.” And Dean says, “Cut the chain.” … “What?!?” He says, “Cut the goddamn chain, I’ll pay them back when they get here.” So we cut the chain, take the patio furniture, move it across the street, we turn what I believe is the exit to the subway, uh and interchange, into an outdoor patio. If you look at those tables, there’s no servers around.
Chris: So for you aspiring filmmakers: Genesis camera and bolt cutters.
Dean: … and bolt cutters.
Chris: Really the two most important things.
John: Absolutely. And then, you were absolutely right. The guy showed up, ‘what the hell’d you do?’, ‘hey, we’re shooting a pilot, would you like to meet the actors? Here’s Tim Hutton.’ Shook his hand, ‘here’s a pile of cash’, and we were fine. Yeah see the same furniture’s over there, because that’s where we stole it from. Uh yeah, sometimes even on a big budget TV show, you gotta go a little guerilla.
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