”We all went in feeling pretty confident because we were quite happy with how the iPhone (video) had worked out.
Even the biggest movie of the year can’t keep locking down a Los Angeles highway ramp though, so how to rehearse the scene?
The iPhone video “became sort of our bible” once filming got underway on the scene proper, Chazelle recalls, even though the first try ended up a bit of a nightmare.
“We were able to secure the highway location for half a day a few weeks before shooting.