![]() Mickle was later brought in as the production designer on Half Nelson, which won Gosling the Best Actor Academy Award nomination and the pair have collaborated on several projects since. The director ended up in Sundance Lab with the directors of Half Nelson, which was Ryan ’s first big film.” I did it for free, worked my ass off and the movie did really well. “There was this cinematographer who worked with my brother and he was going off to do his first movie, Maximum Genius, after my junior year. “I was 18, 19, 20, doing all these movies and getting to meet all these filmmakers.” Her brother Jim Mickle, who is one year older, was at NYU Tisch studying directing and would bring Beth in to design his sets. Mickle started production design by accident when she was “one of four people,” studying art at Columbia University. “ Midnight Cowboy was such a good reference from top to bottom,” she said, “Jon Voight walking through Times Square in the nighttime was perfect for us.”) She was inspired by Pinterest as well as magazines, furniture catalogues, history archives, and old movies. “I’m into a mid-century organic aesthetic.”Ĭollecting furniture and objects from thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets all over New York, with the occasional purchase from eBay, Mickle established the ultimate ’70s prop closet for The Deuce, heading down some “internet rabbit holes” in her research for the show. We passed a shop with furniture laying out on the street and Mickle pointed to some brushed gold side tables and lifted up a chair. Antique shops dominate the strip coffee shops rival Brooklyn’s and vintage stores, farm shops and design studios are all perfectly curated. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)īut as we walked along Warren Street, Hudson’s main drag, Mickle’s attention to detail and eye for style were wholly apparent. To set the scene for the grimy drama, she used glitzy neon signs, bad floral wallpaper, drab bedrooms, pay-by-the-hour hotels and old-school diners.Īn old-school phone booth and cab, used during a shoot in October 2015. “Like Taxi Driver and Mean Streets, you want to feel like you were in that apartment with Robert De Niro or on the street with Jodi Foster,” Mickle told B+B. When Mickle began set design for The Deuce last year, she and the show’s creators wanted to do the best of Scorsese. After 18 years in Harlem, she now lives in trendy Hudson, in a mid-century farmhouse overlooking the Catskill Mountains, complete with white shaggy rugs and cabin-like rooms. The show captured the porn scene of ’70s Times Square with remarkable atmosphere and accuracy, partly thanks to its production designer: Beth Mickle, who “provides a look of authenticity,” Vulture wrote after the season premiere, “but also an indefinable raw edge to every storefront and dark corner, as if danger or opportunity could be hiding anywhere.”īeth Mickle’s hometown couldn’t be further from the urban grit of Forty-Deuce, where Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Candy plied her trade. The Deuce ended its season Sunday with a five-star episode.
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