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JamesG · 09-09-2015, 04:39 PM

Dickens cooked up another great performance as a chef struggling with finances in David Simon’s ode to post-Katrina New Orleans.

New Orleans is just a beautiful city. You will fall in love with it, and you can turn the corner, and it’ll break your heart. I mean, it’s a really special, one-of-a-kind city, and we went down there relatively soon after Katrina, and we were going to be portraying characters inspired by real people there and playing their experience of picking themselves back up in the few shorts months after Katrina.

I remember being there for the pilot, and we shot the pilot during Mardi Gras, and they put us in the Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter during Mardi Gras. First of all, we were never able to sleep. It was so loud there. But I remember, none of the locals were interested in us being there telling their story. They just hated the idea. Like, nobody ever got New Orleans right.

They heard we were coming, they’re not excited about that, and they tell it like it is down there. So we shot the pilot, and we got picked up, so we were shooting season 1 when it first aired, and you know, not everybody had HBO. That’s not down there. So they all went to certain bars that were advertising they were going to show it, which I think is illegal, but people started to see it while we were there shooting, and it was kind of nerve-wracking because you knew they didn’t want you to be there to start with. And then they saw it, and they just sort of cheered for us. We were kind of like The Beatles for a second because we got it right in their eyes, and, you know, thank God, but it was an interesting experience.

Steve Zahn and I talk about it a lot, because it was a unique experience like I’ve never had before because it was kind of like performance art because you were playing these characters that were inspired by real people there, and you were in their town in pretty close to real time, and so we were living there and playing them.

And then we’d be at art gallery openings, or in restaurants, or just walking down the street, and they’d yell out at us and try to get in fights with Steve, you know, because his character was his character. But it was a very unique experience, and I’m very proud of it. I’m glad that they embraced us.

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JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,291	Kim Dickens Looks Back on "Treme" *Dickens cooked up another great performance as a chef struggling with finances in David Simon’s ode to post-Katrina New Orleans.* New Orleans is just a beautiful city. You will fall in love with it, and you can turn the corner, and it’ll break your heart. I mean, it’s a really special, one-of-a-kind city, and we went down there relatively soon after Katrina, and we were going to be portraying characters inspired by real people there and playing their experience of picking themselves back up in the few shorts months after Katrina. I remember being there for the pilot, and we shot the pilot during Mardi Gras, and they put us in the Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter during Mardi Gras. First of all, we were never able to sleep. It was so loud there. But I remember, none of the locals were interested in us being there telling their story. They just hated the idea. Like, nobody ever got New Orleans right. They heard we were coming, they’re not excited about that, and they tell it like it is down there. So we shot the pilot, and we got picked up, so we were shooting season 1 when it first aired, and you know, not everybody had HBO. That’s not down there. So they all went to certain bars that were advertising they were going to show it, which I think is illegal, but people started to see it while we were there shooting, and it was kind of nerve-wracking because you knew they didn’t want you to be there to start with. And then they saw it, and they just sort of cheered for us. We were kind of like The Beatles for a second because we got it right in their eyes, and, you know, thank God, but it was an interesting experience. Steve Zahn and I talk about it a lot, because it was a unique experience like I’ve never had before because it was kind of like performance art because you were playing these characters that were inspired by real people there, and you were in their town in pretty close to real time, and so we were living there and playing them. And then we’d be at art gallery openings, or in restaurants, or just walking down the street, and they’d yell out at us and try to get in fights with Steve, you know, because his character was his character. But it was a very unique experience, and I’m very proud of it. I’m glad that they embraced us. http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/09...-house-cards/6 Attached Images