Thank you for linking that website! I loved the bit where Isabella Rosselini said:
Blue Velvet was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina at the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) Studios with outdoor shots being filmed in the town itself. Apparently some of the townsfolk didn't realize the nature of the film being shot in their town. The night of the shooting of the climatic scene where Dorothy appears to Jeffrey and Sandy, almost the entire town had shown up to watch. Rossellini remembers, "People came out with blankets and picnic baskets, with their grandmothers and small children. I begged the assistant director to warn them that it was going to be a tough scene, that I was going to be totally naked, but they stayed anyway...I apologized to them in a loud voice, knowing they were going to be upset, and concentrated on my scene...Once David called, 'Cut -- we have it,' someone came with a robe for me to wear and my attention returned to our surroundings. Everybody had left. The next day a notice from the police told us we would not be given any more permits to shoot in the streets of Wilmington, North Carolina."
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Date: 2021-06-01 07:30 pm (UTC)From:Blue Velvet was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina at the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) Studios with outdoor shots being filmed in the town itself. Apparently some of the townsfolk didn't realize the nature of the film being shot in their town. The night of the shooting of the climatic scene where Dorothy appears to Jeffrey and Sandy, almost the entire town had shown up to watch. Rossellini remembers, "People came out with blankets and picnic baskets, with their grandmothers and small children. I begged the assistant director to warn them that it was going to be a tough scene, that I was going to be totally naked, but they stayed anyway...I apologized to them in a loud voice, knowing they were going to be upset, and concentrated on my scene...Once David called, 'Cut -- we have it,' someone came with a robe for me to wear and my attention returned to our surroundings. Everybody had left. The next day a notice from the police told us we would not be given any more permits to shoot in the streets of Wilmington, North Carolina."