

There’s marble, tile and stuff that’s in heritage buildings.ĭan can step back into that visual world 15 years later, or 40 years earlier, and it would still be the same visual world because those worlds don’t change. We tried to do was create this normalcy of an environment of a municipal space. But those municipal spaces also come from a history of aesthetics that can be really beautiful. Those courtrooms need to be ubiquitous and need never trigger you to feel that you’re not in a real place. I stand on the shoulders of a zillion people who have designed courtrooms.

“Fatal Attraction” in the courtroom Michael Moriatis/Paramount+ The Courtroom It’s more about the texture and the surfaces that come through the hopeful vista of Los Angeles. There’s restricted art in her loft, black and white, not triggering. Those things are displayed that could be exposed to part of her personality. There are select objects such as postcards that she loved from her childhood, and horse figurines that are also part of her childhood. Inside the cupboards, everything is chaotic. She’s trying to be present, as if she’s got her life completely together, when in fact, all she can do is keep things from unraveling. Couple with the idea of purity of the white from the original film. Part of her story is presenting herself to the world as if she’s capable, put together and controlled. As a storyteller, that felt critical to me to set her in an environment where her imagery was larger than life.Īlex has had burdens and she’s made choices that cripple her. She is very much a victim and a creation of her own imagination. And also placing Dan in the court system, and emphasizing the normalcy of all that, in contrast to the slightly heightened reality.Īlex is composing and curating her life. That felt raw and appropriate to place Alex in. That was really critical to the sistering of the original film in New York, and the idea that you could be in a deep rugged urban environment. There are so many specific retro elements of the film that I kissed onto, particularly in Alex’s apartment and setting it in Downtown Los Angeles. Alex’s apartment in “Fatal Attraction” Michael Moriatis/Paramount+
