Art & Crafts LIVE: Grace and Glamour on 'Étoile'

In this episode recorded live on May 8 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, production designer François Audouyon (whose credits include A Complete Unknown) moderates a conversation with three of the creators behind Amazon Prime Video’s 'Étoile': production designer Bill Groom, choreographer Marguerite Derricks and director of photography M. David Mullen, ASC. For the comedy set in the rarefied world of professional ballet, the team cast 20 professional dancers in both Paris and New York — not to mention as many as 80 SAG-AFTRA dancers for company class scenes — and shot primarily on location and in real theaters in the two cities. "I said to our producer, if we can't go to Paris and find locations to shoot in, we should all be fired," Groom says. "But we ended up building so much there, because Paris is a really difficult place to shoot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices