There’s something inherently terrifying about that-you’ll see it in the show. Right outside of Albuquerque in the desert around Zia Pueblo, we essentially created an underground missile silo out in the desert. When we filmed in the desert in New Mexico, it was the other end of scary-stark and incredibly hot. Those definitely were the bleakest and darkest scenes. We were trying to create a very dark Kamchatkan prison camp vibe out there. The most literal darkness is in Lithuania, but I don’t think it speaks for Lithuania. They had this beautiful tasting menu all inspired by super regional cuisine done with this incredible flair and invention–a fine dining version of regional food.
I loved the restaurant MUROS, at Hotel PACAI, in the historical palace. I was also pleasantly surprised by the food in Lithuania. It’s a very cool bar I’d go to in any city.
It’s a hip, local dive-ish bar with a very nice aesthetic. We used to love to go to this tiny bar in Vilnius’s historic old town called Who Hit John. Were there any favorite places you’d hang out with the crew when you weren’t filming? Any restaurants of note? It was more about the countryside, snow, and trees-and some of the specific city elements, too. But we spent less time filming in them than we thought we were going to. We spent time in small Soviet-era towns, too, that all have a very unique look you can’t find anywhere else, except maybe Russia. The scenes we shot in Lithuania really stand out for the quality and angle of the light that came in. It just felt very different from anywhere we normally see on the show when we’re shooting in Georgia and other places in the States. We also spent time in the forests and countryside in Lithuania. It has all these multi-story cell blocks that were so cool looking that made it into the series. But as an example of architecture, it’s incredible and inspired us immediately.
It’s an old Tsarist prison and the backstory on it is pretty dark. There’s an old-and only recently decommissioned-prison right in the center of Vilnius, Lukiškės Prison, that’s architecturally very special. What were some of the places you found in your early Lithuanian location searches that you knew would make the cut for the show? And for that to be the case in such a small country was surprising. There’s a film industry there and they were some of the better crew I’ve ever worked with, too. We toured the country with long road trips through the countryside and spent time in Vilnius and Kaunas, the other large city in Lithuania. It was so beautiful and historically incredible in terms of the architecture. With Lithuania, we were trying to find this Russian flavor of wilderness, as well as looking for some Tsarist-era architecture. I didn’t know what to expect there, I don’t think it’s a place your average traveler is necessarily familiar with. You filmed in Lithuania to recreate Russia in the fourth season.
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