Joe Russo on What It Would Take for Hollywood to Resume Production
33When Collider spoke with writer-producer Joe Russo last week in advance of Chris Hemsworth's upcoming Netflix movie Extraction, we made sure to ask him the question at the forefront of everyone's minds -- what will it take for Hollywood to resume production?
Not only do Joe and his brother Anthony Russo have their own production company, AGBO, but they have overseen some of the biggest productions on all time, as each Avengers movie is a Rubik's Cube of logistical challenges, from scheduling cast and finding locations, to lighting and visual effects. More important than all of those, however, are safety and security. You don't have a movie unless everyone -- cast and crew -- feels comfortable working.
When our Editor-in-chief, Steven Weintraub, poses a hypothetical in which the cast and crew would quarantine in isolation for two weeks to protect each other, Russo offers a thoughtful response that points to the most important thing right now -- the need for more testing.
"We hadn't talked about [isolating cast and crew]. That could only work in a circumstance where everyone was at the same hotel and you weren't interacting with the outside world, and then you're asking people not to go to dinner or get a drink. it would be hard to control on that level," said Russo.
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