‘Vengeance’ toes the line between making jokes and making it right. The rest was shot in New Mexico because Novak said they got better tax breaks there. However, the movie was only partially shot in Texas. Novak went to West Texas rodeos, football games and - of course - Whataburger on his multiple research trips. ![]() Look, every character has a comic side, that’s true in real life, but I wanted to really do the place right, and I didn’t want to get my ass kicked when I came to Lubbock either. I didn’t want anyone to be the butt of the joke in the movie. ![]() So I have to ask, what did you do to prepare to get it so right?īJN: Well, I really cared, that itself is an important first step. LL: I was blown away by how West Texans were portrayed and how accurate it was. LL: Why West Texas? Out of all the places in the world, why us?īJN: Because I didn’t know it at all, and I thought that was interesting - to explore a place I didn’t know at all, and second, y’all are intimidating! And so I thought, okay what’s a place that someone like me, who’s from Boston, only lived in big cities on the coast, would look at and be like, ‘okay that’s a tough place, it’s a different culture.’
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