As reported in yesterday's Sun, Brad Pitt is in the city, isn't afraid of being seen in public, and is now filming his movie The Assassination of Jesse James in the closed-to-the-public Fort Edmonton Park.
The park has been a hive of activity all week long. Sets built at the Film Alberta studios were moved and erected to enhance locations in Fort Edmonton Park that will serve as three towns in the movie.
It was organized chaos in the wardrobe department during the week. Two giant tents were filled with period costumes as the 100 to 150 extras arrived for fittings.
The costumes, our contacts say, are an indication of how big-budget films spend money in the name of quality. They were all imported from England for the shoot, with no detail spared.
"You can sure tell the budget difference between this film and Snow Day," says one set worker (Snow Day being the most recent Hollywood feature film shot in the city).
A reason why few of Edmonton's large pool of professional stage actors were hired for speaking roles in Jesse James: "They were looking for small, scruffy and hairy," says actress Davina Stewart. "Not many of us met the criteria."
Mike Ross also has an amusing story on the 'Brad watching' that's going on. Thankfully security is pretty tight at the park and filming of the production isn't being disrupted too much.
The Edmonton Journal also reports on the 'capture' of one photographer found hiding in the set trying to snap photos of the cast.
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