How will the South Shore Park pavilion be used in the film?
TG: This building, for our story, represents a place in New York, in the Battery, called Castle Clinton—which is where all of the immigrants were processed. And, in this case, it’s about the reverse process of that. Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney General of the United States during the Red Scare of 1919, decided to stage a series of mass arrests around the country. And we’re, of course, doubling this for New York. So he arrested suspected radicals. Whether they’d been to meetings or received anarchist literature—it didn’t matter. He arrested all in all across the country, over 10,000 people. So we’re basically taking what is an immigration hall and flipping it, turning it into a deportation hall. Actors David Strathairn and Sam Witwer speak with writer/director Terry Green between takes. ~photo Matthew Sliker BVC: Your crews are setting up out front right now… what’s that specific scene going to be? TG: This is just the entrance where David Strathairn’s character, William Flynn, and his
