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Theyre proud of the place and so wanted to have it onscreen.
In time, we realized snow is actually better.
Amazons workplace conditions have been thesubject of scrutinyandprotests, and they are described as strenuous in Bruders book.
The movie does not serve up a judgment in its depiction.
We made it clear that Chloes never going in with her films with an agenda, Asher said.
Its about Fern, and this is one of the places where she works.
It also wasnt open enough for the shot they hoped to get of McDormand swallowed by the landscape.
With that structure in place, they could then capture whatever developed naturally.
Chloe creates this environment thats actually quite rigid.
Its like a sandbox, and then inside we can play.
(Older versions of the Park Service uniforms were used to accommodate trademark concerns.)
Wall Drug let theNomadlandcrew film while they were open, with McDormand serving customers who often didnt recognize her.
That was probably as documentary as this movie got, Richards said.
It was too big, producer Mollye Asher says, and they had no reason to have us there.
Asher says, Chloe wanted it to be clearly the coast and sort of the end of the line.
At one point in the script, Zhao described a scene where Fern watches a bison from her van.
But they couldnt just bring in bison to shoot, since theyre so large and notoriously hard to herd.
We would drive through and everyone was like, did you get the bison, Josh?
Richards said, and I was like, I think so!
and then we would move on.
