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LA may be a corporate city, but there are some things that even the film industry cannot overcome during a pandemic.
Early Tuesday morning, after a backlash, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the city would reopen a coronavirus testing site in downtown Union Station, which Angelenos was reportedly closed for a day for filming of a remake of the 1999 film She is all that.
Late Monday, Curative, a company that works with the city to run testing sites, emailed the more than 500 people scheduled to test at the site on December 1, informing them that the location was temporarily closed in because of an “event,” according to screenshots.
“We know this is a huge inconvenience and we apologize again for the late notification! The email reads.
The test site is more accessible than others in the city due to its connection to public transport.
The decision to shut down the testing center for the day to allow city-sanctioned production to move forward came from property managers at Union Station, Deadline reports, and was surprised by the town hall, which initially offered the 504 people scheduled for a test same-day appointments at other locations, while also working to reopen the station.
“Earlier today, we learned that our Union Station test kiosk had unexpectedly been closed ahead of tomorrow’s appointments,” a spokesperson for the mayor said. Deadline. “We remain committed to providing free testing and plan to test over 38,000 people tomorrow,” they added.
The film, He is all that, is a remake of the 1999 romantic comedy She is all that.
The mini-scandal couldn’t have come at a worse time for the city. Monday, all public and private gatherings outside the same household have been banned for the next three weeks in LA County, the country’s most populous, and businesses were ordered to operate with even smaller capacity as the county grapples with a new coronavirus outbreak.
The county had roughly 25,000 new cases last week, most anywhere in the United States, and reported a record 2,185 hospitalizations on Monday.
Almost all of the major film productions in Hollywood have been closed until the end of summer, when cinema unions and government representatives has developed a new set of coronavirus protocols on the tray.
Now, close contact and crowd scenes are discouraged, and sets work with regular temperature tests and checks, as well as miscellaneous “bubbles”Staff who do not interact with each other unless necessary. Some have gone even further, isolating entire teams during production.
This isn’t the first time testing centers have been caught up in LA politics. In June, amid the Black Lives Matter protests, Los Angeles closed testing sites across city while only imposing curfews in certain neighborhoods.
“We are not going to stand up for the people who destroy store windows,” said Mayor Garcetti said at the time, which some interpreted as a reprimand against the demonstrators.
