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, the Arquettes are testing cast and crew, taking temperatures and putting cast into quarantine before the start of the film.
They have been helped by the fact that Arkansas is one of the states least hit by the Coronavirus with just over 3,000 cases and 57 deaths. No official stay-at-home order was ever put in place and the governor is expected to allow some businesses to start opening at the beginning of May. “This is a really scary time, obviously, so we wanted to come together and support each other and do what we can to keep people working and be creative,” McLarty Arquette added.
Because the film had been fully financed, the filmmaking trio were able to keep others working remotely. In fact, they restructured their art budget after friends of theirs that own a fabricating business in New York lost clients and were able to send business their way. “As creative people we know that freelance and stability don’t always go together and we’re grateful to be able to do what we can to keep other creatives going,” they added.
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