Night Shoot

The rain was not in the forecast. By 9 PM the backlot was a shallow lake, and the grips were building dams out of sandbags and optimism.

Between takes, the cast huddled under heat tents, trading stories about the worst weather they had ever worked through. The record, by unanimous vote, belonged to a second-unit shoot in Iceland.

By the time the AD called wrap, the crew had been on their feet for nearly fourteen hours. The shot, against all odds, was beautiful.