HOUMA, La. | Filming for “Where the Crawdads Sing” brought out locals last week to witness a little piece of Hollywood magic.
Downtown Houma was transformed to look as it might have in the 1950s and 60s, and crews filmed scenes for the movie June 28-30.
Tina Parfait of Houma said she loves seeing the old-fashioned clothes, vintage cars and downtown buildings featured on the big screen.
“And it’s just pretty cool that they’re here in our little … town of Houma doing this wonderful movie. And I didn’t read the book, but now it motivates me to want to read the book,” Parfait said. “I’m a big fan of Reese Witherspoon.”
Witherspoon, the movie’s producer and a Louisiana native, visited the area for the film work earlier last month.
“Incredible day on set of the @CrawdadsMovie,” Witherspoon said in a Twitter post June 18, accompanied by photos from the set.
Filming for the Hollywood movie, an adaptation of Delia Owens’ best-selling novel by the same name, has also taken place in New Orleans.
The novel and movie focus on “an unforgettable young woman, abandoned at age ten to survive alone in the wild coastal marsh of North Carolina,” says a summary on Owens’ website. “For years, rumors of the ‘Marsh Girl; haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.”
Actors Daisy Edgar-Jones will star as Clark, Taylor John Smith will play Tate Walker, and Harris Dickinson will play Andrews.
The film issued a call in March for local extras.
Last Monday, Parfait watched take after take on the corner of Lafayette Street.
“We really got entertained with two little extras that were walking. They would stop because they would walk maybe 20 yards, and then they would call ‘cut,’ and then they have to turn around and do it back over again. But those two guys, they were like, not aggravated,” Parfait said. “They were gonna play it off like this is fun. And you could tell it was fun for them because they were just dancing and singing and, and I’m like, if those two guys are not in that movie, I will be disappointed because they have entertained us spectators watching.”
Linsi Cenac Matherne, owner of Linsi L Cenac Interiors, saw her storefront turned into a retro furniture store. Cenac Matherne said it was cool to see the production work outside the store’s front door.
“To see them quickly make changes, and it’s really one of those kind of fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants things, like with the weather and with so many people. It’s pretty amazing to watch,” Cenac Matherne said.
She’s excited to be able to show her kids where the shop is in the background when the movie comes out.
“They asked, ‘Were the movie people there?’ And they were like, ‘What’s that look like?’ The kids are 3 and 4, but when the movie comes out, they can obviously tell where it is since our building is mint green,” Cenac Matherne said. “You can’t miss it. For them to be able to see that, I think it’s gonna be really, really neat. We’re kind of in the thick of it.”
Families took photos with the vintage cars and decorations when the production was not filming. Emmalyn Pellegrin, 8, was with her mom, Haley, sister Kate and friend Journee to watch a scene being filmed with an old rail bus.
“It’s cool,” Emmalyn said. “I want to be in a movie one day.”
Annette Ruffin came out after work to watch filming. She’s been an extra in three movies previously filmed in Houma: “Crazy in Alabama,” “The Apostle” and “A Lesson Before Dying.”
“I love seeing when they come out and do the takes and they say ‘it’s good’ or ‘go back,'” Ruffin said. “I love it all — everything.”
Some of the production crew wore shirts that riffed on variations of “Happy Houma Days,” signaling the time they filmed here.
Lauren Rebstock, a resident of Cut Off and owner of La Boujee Boutique, had her storefront transformed into a hardware store.
“From a business owner perspective it was really incredible to watch them work. I think the magic of Hollywood and how they can transform things and piece things together, it’s just really amazing. To watch downtown Houma become that 1950s-1960s look has just been really phenomenal,” Rebstock said.
“It’s just really great to have the opportunity to have so many of those people from out of town coming in and really kind of breathing some life into our local economy,” she said. “I mean, just walking into Downtown Jeaux’s yesterday to grab coffee with some of the girls who work with me. It was amazing to see all of the crew and the hair and makeup girls in there just eating lunch.”
Rebstock was also able to work as an extra with her fellow employees for several scenes. She looks forward to having a community gathering once the film comes out.
“I want to do a whole viewing party. The manager of the store and I were talking yesterday. We want to get some of the big, like, Hollywood lights out in front of the store and maybe do a blow-up projection screen and an outdoors kind of thing,” Rebstock said. “I definitely encourage people to come downtown and check it out. I know the film crew is going to be packing up on Thursday, but just come in to see the remnants in the near future. It’s really great just knowing that their community was part of something that’s gonna stand the test of time like a movie.”
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