‘The Gilded Age’ season 2 starts filming in Newport Rhode Island

NEWPORT — HBO crews have resumed filming for the second season of “The Gilded Age,” a drama from the creator of “Downton Abbey,” in accordance with the pinnacle of the state movie workplace.

Steven Feinberg, govt director of the Rhode Island Movie & TV Workplace, stated the present has doubled the scale of its common solid members, from 12 within the first season to 24 within the new season now being filmed.

Whereas many of the collection is about in late 1800s New York Metropolis, most of the inside scenes of characters’ houses for the primary season had been filmed in a few of Newport’s fabled mansions. Just a few scenes, together with on the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame and The Ledges seaside home, present characters visiting Newport.

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Feinberg stated that he expects to see extra of Newport being proven as Newport within the second season as a result of one of many characters strikes there.

The manufacturing shall be filming for about two months in Newport this yr, however solely half of that shall be this spring, Feinberg stated.

After this month, filming will break to permit vacationers to go to the mansions and different Newport sights. It’s anticipated to renew in October or November.

In some ways, filming is less complicated this time round, Feinberg stated.

“Final time, we had been leaping by way of the peak and unknown of COVID,” he stated. “Now, there appears to be a a lot better grasp on every thing.”

However that does not imply that COVID is not nonetheless affecting the manufacturing. Forged and crew are nonetheless required to get frequent COVID exams and to put on masks when not showing on digicam, Feinberg stated.

“The Gilded Age” is considered one of two huge title productions — together with Disney’s “Hocus Pocus 2” — to benefit from a comparatively new change to the state’s movie tax credit score legislation. Earlier than, greater than half a manufacturing needed to be shot in Rhode Island to qualify.

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That was modified in time for the primary season of “The Gilded Age” in order that productions certified for a credit score of 30% of what they spent in-state so long as they spent at the very least $10 million in Rhode Island.

The transfer was seen as making the state extra aggressive in wooing big-name productions, resembling a James Bond or Indiana Jones film, as a result of they often movie in a number of places across the globe.

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Though the state Division of Taxation stories each Aug. 15 how a lot of a tax break every manufacturing obtained, Feinberg stated it’s unlikely the entire auditing shall be performed in time to reveal the credit score this yr for the primary season of “The Gilded Age.”