A key scene in Amazon MGM Studios ’ Hedda influenced where the film, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler , was shot.

At Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles, writer, director and producer Nia DaCosta expanded on the criteria the filmmaking team presented property owners when scouting the location for the 1950s England-set film. Production designer Cara Brower , who couldn’t be there, laid the foundation of the search.

“The house had to be old and have a gravitas to it. And so [Cara] looked at 200 houses, and I looked at five in the end because she did a lot of the groundwork, But the questions were, ‘Can we shoot a gun off the roof? Can we shoot fireworks and annoy your neighbors?’ Can we drop a chandelier in your home?” DaCosta said. “And that takes a lot of

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