Filming In Brooklyn

Anyone who has had a film crew take over their block knows that movie and TV shoots have the potential to be intrusive and disruptive. But just how much you’re inconvenienced has a lot to do with how nice the crew is. If today’s I Hate Valentine’s Day shoot in Carroll Gardens was any indication, then director/writer/star Nia Vardalos is steering the nicest production ship that Filming In Brooklyn has ever come across.

It can be especially annoying when you’re trying to get somewhere to have to wait to walk down the street while somebody shoots a scene, and Ms. Vardalos was conscious of that and tried to let as many people pass as possible between takes, even holding things up a few times when parents with small children were trying to pass.

The crew members and production staff were going out of their way to accommodate the businesses affected, even holding a guy’s bike so that he could go into a bodega (chaining it up was out of the question, since it would have been in the shot).

The star herself (who looks fabulous!) was nice enough to pose for a picture, with fellow cast member Zoe.

Filming In Brooklyn was allowed to peek inside the flower shop set (Nia Vardalos’ character is a florist).

And while we managed to miss John Corbett every single time we were on the set today, we did meet two neighborhood crossing guards who had taken pictures with him, and were so excited that they had gotten the photos developed right away.

Coming up next: pics from a walk-and-talk scene down Court Street.

Originally posted on Filming In Brooklyn