‘WeCrashed’ Production Designer: ‘The Set Was So Big It Needed Fire Sprinklers and an HVAC System’
21.04.2022 - 17:13
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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen it came to recreating the offices of WeWork, the company that made and lost billions of dollars, production designer Amy Williams was told she could go as big as she possibly could.The communal office space world is depicted in the Apple TV+ series “WeCrashed,” which comes to an end on Friday. The show charts the rise and fall of founders Adam Neumann, played by Jared Leto, and his wife Rebekah Paltrow Neumann, played by Anne Hathaway.Williams was excited as a designer to dip into the big, luscious extravagant world. Creators Drew Crevello and Lee Eisenberg mentioned she would have to build the main headquarters set.
“I had this idea that I wanted it to be this confusing, M. C. Escher-type staircase [place] that was three stories and confusing,” says Williams.
When she pitched it to the showrunners, they loved it. The set ended up being so big, it was treated as a real-building that needed sprinklers and a HVAC system. When designing the workspaces, Williams credits WeWork architect Miguel McKelvey.
“We cast the net worldwide,” she says for inspiration. “They have a really good pattern at the Paris location. The New York location has the multi-level thing, but with staircases,” she explains.The staircases were important because she wanted to give Leto’s Adam a pulpit which he could preach from.
Atop that, was his office. “It was this place from on high, so when he had the Monday meetings, he could look down onto his kingdom and look down on his disciples,” Williams said leaning into the grandiose notion with the staircases.As important to her design was the color. Williams worked closely with the show’s costume designers.
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