Yes, even a fancy show uses a green screen sometimes. The Brooklyn soundstages at Steiner Studios handle the indoor scenes that aren’t in real mansions. Think of it as the sausage factory for your favorite expensive-looking sausage.
They build complete dining rooms and drawing rooms from scratch. It’s like IKEA furniture, but for the 1%—and it costs more than my car. When they film winter scenes, they use fake snow that looks so real, your own snowblower would be jealous.
I once visited a TV set and saw a prop apple that cost $200. That apple had a better union contract than I do. That’s the Hollywood of it all: literal artifice that’s more expensive than reality.
