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Hollywood Comes to Cape Juby

Story by Susan Clark

Photos by Ryan Schaetzle

 The cast and crew of the film STATESIDE at the CAPE JUBY.

The cast and crew of the feature film Stateside at the Cape Juby, November 26, 2002. Writer/director Reverge Anselmo is center (in beret) talking to his star, Jonathan Tucker, standing with his foot on the jeep.

The crew filming at the CAPE JUBY. You've seen the term "dolly grip" in film credits? The dolly grip in this shot is the crew member pulling the vehicle—the dolly— along the tracks. The crew is timing the shot. The man in "civvies" is Jonathan Tucker's stand-in.
"It's been the best location shoot we've had," enthused a member of the company making the feature film Stateside, after a day of shooting on and around the Ready Reserve Force ship Cape Juby in Wilmington, North Carolina, in November.

"We had plenty of room, the ship looked good, everything worked fine, and the people on the ship were great."

Stateside, which will probably be in theaters about a year from now, stars Jonathan Tucker, Rachel Leigh Cook, Val Kilmer, Penny Marshall, and Carrie Fisher.

It was written and directed by Reverge Anselmo, who served with the Marines in Beirut in 1983. The film draws on his experiences, and the Cape Juby was used as a location to show Marines shipping out.     

Filmmaking is labor-intensive—a day's work for the cast and crew usually results in about 30 seconds on screen—so if you want to see the Cape Juby on screen, you'll have to look fast.
Actors and the writer/director aboard the CAPE JUBY. Writer/director Reverge Anselmo talks to four of the background actors playing Marines.

 
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