Daniel Gillies chats with Collider about The Originals and more, here he explains why New Orleans may or may not be where the show will continue to be filmed.
Are you going to be able to shoot there, at all, for the series itself, or will you be shooting it elsewhere?
GILLIES: We’re going to be shooting most of it in Atlanta, and try to shoot occasionally in New Orleans. New Orleans is a little impossible, the reason being that it’s unpredictable and it’s cacophonous. It’s Disneyland for drunks, and that doesn’t necessarily lend itself to the production, as kindly as it could, which is unfortunate. When you have the liberty of more time, like we did with the pilot where we shot for 10 or 12 days, then that’s okay. But, if you’re trying to do your episodes in 10 days and you’re dealing with random frat boys or whoever screaming, or women hurling beads, or having beads hurled at them for their exposed breasts, you’re in big trouble. You’re not going to be able to meet your deadline. Unless you want to spend millions of dollars a season on ADR-ing everything, you’re not going to get what you need. It would be like trying to wrangle salmon with your hands, or lasso dolphins. It’s just not going to happen.
