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The Bear? Being John Malkovich? ‘Opus’ Cast Test Their Movie Location Knowledge
Condé Nast Traveler
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3/19/2025
The cast of Opus—John Malkovich, Ayo Edebiri, and Juliette Lewis—join Condé Nast Traveler to test their movie location knowledge! From The Bear to Being John Malkovich, can they remember the iconic locations from their most famous roles?
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And he said, remember the day at the Queen Mary,
00:02
you know, you were kind of an a**hole.
00:04
And I said, well, I am kind of an a**hole, so what?
00:08
Hi, I'm Aya Debery.
00:10
I'm John Malkovich.
00:12
And I'm Juliette Lewis.
00:14
We have filmed in some pretty amazing locations.
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Let's see if we actually remember them.
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♪♪
00:24
Okay, image number one, location number one.
00:29
Oh, I recognize this.
00:31
This is a plate with a napkin on it,
00:34
but it's shot through almost like a portal.
00:38
Ooh.
00:39
Do you recognize this?
00:40
I...
00:41
I think I do.
00:43
That was in, I believe, a restaurant.
00:48
If it's the restaurant scene at the end
00:52
where all the people are Malkovich...
00:53
Malkovich, yeah, yeah.
00:55
Malkovich, Malkovich.
00:56
Malkovich, Malkovich.
00:58
Malkovich, Malkovich.
01:00
Malkovich!
01:01
That was on the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
01:04
My guess is that it's from being John Malkovich.
01:09
I'm filming it, actually,
01:11
with the camera meeting on my shoulder.
01:13
Wait, really? Wow.
01:15
I remember it was unbelievably hot,
01:17
no air conditioners,
01:19
and there were a number of people
01:23
with my face in a rubber mask
01:28
with only the little breathing holes,
01:30
so a lot of people were fainting.
01:33
And eventually I kind of said,
01:36
I'm very happy in my dress.
01:38
Life is good. Life is beautiful.
01:41
Can we shoot, please? Let's shoot.
01:43
People are fainting. Let's get on with it.
01:46
Then years later, I got a call from Vince Landay,
01:50
who produced Being John Malkovich,
01:51
and he said he was working on a new production
01:54
that Spike Jonze was doing,
01:56
a film called Adaptation.
01:57
And would I look at it?
01:59
And he said, well, remember the day at the Queen Mary?
02:03
And I said, oh, well, I'm sure it's fine.
02:06
And Vince said, well, we think you should look at it.
02:09
And I said, well, why?
02:11
And Vince was like, well, you know,
02:13
you're kind of an asshole.
02:15
And I said, well, I am kind of an asshole.
02:18
So what? That was the scene from that day.
02:22
Shut up! Shut up!
02:26
Let's really try today to solve our camera problems.
02:30
Keep between take time at an absolute minimum.
02:33
These masks are really hot.
02:35
That was a pretty absurd one.
02:37
I want to go back and watch this again.
02:39
It was pretty absurd, but mostly it was fun.
02:43
I have seen a world that no man should see!
02:46
Who's this?
02:49
Oh, wait, I think I know.
02:51
These are so obscure that you...
02:54
These are close-ups.
02:55
I'm sure it is.
02:56
It looks like Mars.
02:58
Wait, are those...
02:59
These are snakes that might even be rattlesnakes or cobras, I think.
03:06
I think it's a natural-born killer.
03:08
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
03:10
So we did shoot in New Mexico,
03:13
and that's what Opus reminded me.
03:16
I was having flashbacks of Deja Vu.
03:19
Tatanka is Russell Means' son, and he's in Opus.
03:24
And that's the scene that I shot with his father.
03:28
So this we shot, it was freezing,
03:31
and we shot with real rattlesnakes all around us
03:34
and fake rattlesnakes.
03:36
But the cameraman who had to walk backwards,
03:39
he doesn't know where the real and fake ones are.
03:42
And so the first cameraman was like,
03:44
I'm out, I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it.
03:47
And then Oliver Stone got a second cameraman
03:51
who was a bit more daring or crazy,
03:54
and he's like, I'll do it.
03:56
And he did it.
04:03
The truth is, how I did it, where I wasn't scared,
04:07
is I watched the rattlesnake handler
04:10
try to get a rattlesnake to bite.
04:12
They had to do a close-up.
04:14
And this rattlesnake would not bite
04:16
this pretend pant leg for anything.
04:18
And I was like, why is he not biting it?
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He said, it's cold.
04:22
Oh, they're not as cold.
04:24
They'll stay coiled up, and they're harder to get you.
04:27
So I lodged this little safety gem.
04:30
They were a bit away, but for the cameraman
04:32
who's walking backwards.
04:34
Totally different.
04:35
Totally different.
04:36
We all live to tell.
04:37
Here we go.
04:38
Oh, I know that.
04:40
I know what that is.
04:42
That's the bus.
04:43
That's in Chicago.
04:44
That's from the movie.
04:46
Is that the back of my head?
04:48
Or is that the back of my head?
04:51
I didn't know they shot that in Chicago, though.
04:53
On the train, yeah, in Chicago.
04:55
Or maybe, I don't know, that's like Old Town or somewhere.
04:59
So you're on the L.
05:00
Yeah.
05:01
I'm on the L.
05:02
Was it a real running train?
05:04
Yeah.
05:05
Whoa.
05:06
Yes.
05:07
Sound must have loved that.
05:09
Our sound department, I don't even know.
05:11
I think they're some of the most chill people.
05:13
Every line of dialogue on that show,
05:15
everybody's talking over each other at the same time.
05:17
Sydney, you stir that pot for me, please, chef.
05:19
Yes, chef.
05:20
You want a cartouche?
05:21
Please, thank you, chef.
05:22
What's our best day here?
05:23
Five?
05:24
Like, they just have given it to God at this point.
05:26
We're on the train and on the bus on that show very frequently.
05:30
And our locations department is like, I don't even know.
05:34
They're the best, sweetest people in the world.
05:36
And they have so many connections to the city.
05:39
Because we use a lot of real locations.
05:41
Like, we're out in the city a lot.
05:43
Oh, gosh.
05:44
Bill is, I think, his name.
05:46
But it's like our contact to the public transport city.
05:51
And we've, like, used him so much that he's kind of become an unofficial,
05:54
like, crew member.
05:56
And in the third season, he made a cameo as, like,
05:59
an uncle of the character.
06:01
Yeah.
06:02
Because we just, like, he has given us so many favors
06:07
and, like, helped us out so much.
06:10
Because our characters are often having contemplative moments
06:13
on moving public transit.
06:15
There's just really good food in Chicago.
06:18
It's really easy to get a seat in a restaurant there when we're filming,
06:22
which is nice.
06:23
Me and Lionel had a little side quest, like, first season or second season,
06:28
because we were like, we really need to get, like, some good soul food,
06:31
like, while we're out here.
06:32
And so we, like, made it our mission to get really good soul food,
06:35
and we found this place.
06:36
I thought my foot was going to fall off at the end of when we were done
06:40
eating there, which is a compliment.
06:42
What is it called?
06:43
It's called, but I think it doesn't exist anymore also.
06:47
And we literally tried looking for it.
06:49
We were like, oh, there's a lore.
06:51
But it's called Ooey It Is Too.
06:53
Oh.
06:54
And there's no one.
06:56
There's no Ooey It Is One.
06:58
It's just Ooey It Is Too.
07:00
Yeah.
07:01
It's crazy.
07:02
We went straight to the sequel.
07:04
Yeah, we went straight to the sequel.
07:05
We went out there, and I had, like, a sweet tea that I was like, oh, my God.
07:08
Like, I saw my ancestors.
07:10
Like, I was like, a portal had opened.
07:13
There was a line down the block where people would just, like,
07:15
they'd go there every Sunday after church.
07:17
And we were just like, all right, yeah, we're here.
07:20
Opus.
07:21
Yeah.
07:22
It's the compound.
07:23
Yeah.
07:24
Moretti's compound.
07:25
Moretti's compound.
07:26
I forget the story about it.
07:28
Do you remember?
07:29
Oh, yeah.
07:30
There's, like, a woman who owned this place.
07:34
Oh, wait, the place we shot.
07:36
Yeah.
07:37
Different colorful events might have occurred at this place.
07:40
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:42
Yeah.
07:43
It's sort of between Santa Fe and Los Alamos.
07:46
It was, I think, a horse, ranch, horse farm, but quite a lovely place.
07:53
Probably not at the best time of year.
07:56
Definitely not snowing.
07:58
So cold.
07:59
Snowing, very cold, and, you know, very, very arid, dry landscape for the most part.
08:06
But we got a lot of snow and a decent amount of mud as well.
08:10
That was a fun trip down memory lane.
08:12
Yeah, I agree.
08:13
I think we did a pretty good job.
08:14
I have to agree.
08:15
I said I was.
08:16
Yes.
08:17
Yes.
08:18
Yes.
08:19
Yes.
08:20
Yes.
08:21
Yes.
08:22
Yes.
08:23
Yes.
08:24
Yes.
08:25
Yes.
08:26
Yes.
08:27
Yes.
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