Stars of the Oamaru-filmed East of Eden\u00a0have\u00a0heaped praise on the Southern landscapes, old towns and settings\u00a0which starred in the\u00a0global hit Netflix series.<\/p>\n
Oamaru, Dunedin and Otago, including the arid\u00a0landscapes of Central Otago, were central to the series \u2014\u00a0filling in for the United States.<\/p>\n
Actor Florence Pugh, who played the lead role of Cathy in the adaptation of John Steinbeck\u2019s classic, said New Zealand\u00a0\u201creally felt like a perfect match\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such a beautiful place, the people are amazing, the culture is amazing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe respect to ancestry and the land is something that I just want to take forward into my life every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pugh was speaking in a video recently released by\u00a0the New Zealand Film Commission and Netflix \u2014\u00a0also featuring other cast and crew.<\/p>\n
The video was played during a recent screening of the series at the Oamaru Opera House.<\/p>\n
Presumably in a\u00a0reference to Oamaru\u2019s iconic Victorian buildings, series director Garth Davis\u00a0said there were \u201cstill some very old towns with period architecture\u201d in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just has that epic scope\u00a0and its relatively untouched as well,\u201d he said, of the country.<\/p>\n
Mike Faist, who played Charles Trask, said\u00a0\u201cone of the greatest things we got to experience before we started was a whakatau ceremony, where the rightful owners of the land \u2014 the M\u0101ori tribe \u2014\u00a0welcomed us to a ceremony where they blessed us and allowed us to use the land for the sake of what we were doing here\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was quite an emotional experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Te R\u016bnanga o Moeraki upoko Dave Higgins took karakia before filming began in Oamaru in January last year.<\/p>\n
Production designer Grant Major praised the \u201cbeautiful part of the country\u201d in the South Island where filming took place.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the landscape that brought us there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Zoe Kazan, the writer, co-showrunner and executive producer of the show, summed it up,\u00a0\u201cI just feel very lucky that we got to film here\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stars of the Oamaru-filmed East of Eden\u00a0have\u00a0heaped praise on the Southern landscapes, old towns and settings\u00a0which starred in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-633722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}