Residence: Did the Netflix series really shoot in the White House?

Netflix posted a residence online a few days ago, an excellent series found in the heart of the White House. Because of the walls of this place that welcomes the presidential family to kill. And this is a detective Cordelia Kupp (Uzo Aduba) to find out the true false and guilty of 157 suspects.

He never had a series, used the White House as a giant Cledo place and never watched the series of little hands that work there. Showerner Paul Williams Davis, in fact, was inspired by Kate Andersen’s Bootper’s Novel “Residence: In the Private World of the White House”, which is itself as a kind of Dunton’s White House.

Re -set up a white house

Unfortunately, the teams could not be shot in the White House, but much of the budget was allocated to create the team, which is quite impressive, to say. François Audu, the head of the decorator, worked with his teams on a reduced white house model based on the current model identified in the American Museum.

In doing so, they re -created 132 pieces and three floors that represent this historic place. This model was necessary for widespread plans and allowed viewers to figure out the geography of the place.

In turn, the actors filmed in very real decorations: “We wanted to create this authenticity and this realism by building most of the parts you see in the series,” Said udouy. “This is probably just 5 % of the use of visual effects. We also called a consultant to help us describe certain parts of the White House that have never been photographic.”

Well visited the little secrets

Those who are better than a former member of presidential staff to help Paul William Davis write Vibrant. The screenwriter was able to count the help of Hali O’Connor, an assistant to the White House Executive, for 2 and a half years.

The latter revealed little secrets that were well protected in the operating mode of the place, and some architectural details that only those who worked there know: whether it is the small stairs hidden behind the walls or the location of the executive office that no one has the right to visit.

He also shared a mantra that will repeat some of the series: “You always have to go through the house in front of something else. It’s your work. You’re doing it in the shade. Nobody thanks you. You won’t enrich yourself. You’re doing it for your country.”

Some of his anecdotes are also scattered throughout the series: it was Jackie Kennedy, who had an idea of ​​repairing the chamber so that people would not break their home during sleep, and that was former President Lindon B. Johnson, who was obsessed with shower water temperature and pressure …

A living that you should see on Netflix.