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Glenn Ficarra

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252 total appearances

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That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Well, it's just interesting. We went to art school, and we liked to complain about we were the worst kids in the class. But those lessons we learned in our foundation classes, which were drawing, light color design, and 3D, we use every day when we direct. So it's a good thing to learn about that.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

But mainly it was about building that set and making it really safe and making it filled with gas elements, just like you have at the bottom of your barbecue, a gas pipe with all these holes in it that just starts pumping out gas.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

But mainly it was about building that set and making it really safe and making it filled with gas elements, just like you have at the bottom of your barbecue, a gas pipe with all these holes in it that just starts pumping out gas.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

But mainly it was about building that set and making it really safe and making it filled with gas elements, just like you have at the bottom of your barbecue, a gas pipe with all these holes in it that just starts pumping out gas.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So the gas would come as a clean flame like gas does. It burns clean. And then the smoke would come from a smoke machine. So you have two separate things. And the smoke isn't smoke. It's that kind of oil-based stuff. It's not really smoke. It's like Roscoe Fogger. Bodega incense.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So the gas would come as a clean flame like gas does. It burns clean. And then the smoke would come from a smoke machine. So you have two separate things. And the smoke isn't smoke. It's that kind of oil-based stuff. It's not really smoke. It's like Roscoe Fogger. Bodega incense.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So the gas would come as a clean flame like gas does. It burns clean. And then the smoke would come from a smoke machine. So you have two separate things. And the smoke isn't smoke. It's that kind of oil-based stuff. It's not really smoke. It's like Roscoe Fogger. Bodega incense.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Yeah, there's no, so there's no, you can never build up carbon dioxide or whatever. It is so much fun. It was like those kinds of things, like the White House set in Paradise. It's just like, it's just like, it's just a thrill. A kid in a candy store, yeah.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Yeah, there's no, so there's no, you can never build up carbon dioxide or whatever. It is so much fun. It was like those kinds of things, like the White House set in Paradise. It's just like, it's just like, it's just a thrill. A kid in a candy store, yeah.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Yeah, there's no, so there's no, you can never build up carbon dioxide or whatever. It is so much fun. It was like those kinds of things, like the White House set in Paradise. It's just like, it's just like, it's just a thrill. A kid in a candy store, yeah.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

You sign a contract, and they make you do it. I got you. You know how it is. I do indeed. We would have loved to come back. We would have loved to come back every season, but it just didn't work out.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

You sign a contract, and they make you do it. I got you. You know how it is. I do indeed. We would have loved to come back. We would have loved to come back every season, but it just didn't work out.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

You sign a contract, and they make you do it. I got you. You know how it is. I do indeed. We would have loved to come back. We would have loved to come back every season, but it just didn't work out.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Because we came up with some tricky little directory shot. You remember that? Yeah. Yes. We put a blue screen behind you so that we would shoot the people running to the emergency room to save Jack in slow motion.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Because we came up with some tricky little directory shot. You remember that? Yeah. Yes. We put a blue screen behind you so that we would shoot the people running to the emergency room to save Jack in slow motion.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Because we came up with some tricky little directory shot. You remember that? Yeah. Yes. We put a blue screen behind you so that we would shoot the people running to the emergency room to save Jack in slow motion.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So that you would be talking on the phone and you'd see these people running in slow motion behind you. The shot is dope. It's so cool. You're spilling your guts. So you wanted like, you know, so we felt bad about that.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So that you would be talking on the phone and you'd see these people running in slow motion behind you. The shot is dope. It's so cool. You're spilling your guts. So you wanted like, you know, so we felt bad about that.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So that you would be talking on the phone and you'd see these people running in slow motion behind you. The shot is dope. It's so cool. You're spilling your guts. So you wanted like, you know, so we felt bad about that.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Just like Memphis. By the way, we talked about that making the pilot. We talked about Like, well, what are we gonna do? How are we gonna reveal the actual death? And we were sort of on the pilot. Dan was like, what am I gonna do? And we're sort of like trying to figure it out. And so like the kind of the beginnings of it were happening while we were shooting the pilot on the set.