Behind the Scenes of And Just Like That - Filming Insider Tells All

01/24/22 • 53 min

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Did you know our friend Stefan from MLVC (the Madonna podcast) spent the summer working as a background actor for And Just Like That!? Well, Stefan is here and ready to SPILL on... the scenes he filmed, experiencing Che Diaz in the wild, Cynthia Nixon’s wig, the erasure of Chris Noth/Big’s flashback scenes, 14-hour days, being directed by Michael Patrick King, how much background actors are paid, production’s deal w/ paparazzi and more. PLUS, how his And Just Like That experience compared to filming the upcoming season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel!

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