BY STEVE KELMAN
CORRESPONDENT
CRESSKILL, N.J.—A private residence on Jackson Drive in Cresskill was recently used to film an upcoming movie starring Kevin Bacon.
Shooting for the film titled “You Should Have Left” took place Aug. 27.
The film stars Bacon, a veteran actor, along with co-star Amanda Seyfried. In it a screen writer, played by Bacon, travels to the Alps with his family. Once there he develops a very bad case of writer’s block and begins to regret his decision, this according to the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB).
While the residence on Jackson Drive certainly could pass for the kind of house one might see in the Alps, the premise of this film seems a bit similar to Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic “The Shining,” where another writer develops a case of writer’s block while caretaking at a hotel in the Colorado Rockies.
Outside the set—while filming was taking place inside the house—crew members scurried around doing various activities. Northern Valley Press sought an opportunity to meet with the production manager, interview Bacon, and perhaps take in the filming of a scene; however, the production company, Blumhouse, decided against it.
Some crew members were observed wearing protective blue colored shoe protection as they made their way in and out of the residential mansion.
A kind member of the crew who declined to be identified even offered me a beverage due to the standing around in the heat. He explained that the “reality” of film production, “is crazy.”
“Everyone is running around in 100 different directions; this is just the nature of art,” he said.
Kevin Bacon photo by Gage Skidmore/ Wikimedia Commons; Amanda Seyfried photo by Toglenn/Wikimedia Commons