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The authenticity of Chernobyl didn’t just come from research, but the shooting locations. The show was shot near the real-life events in Lithuania and Ukraine. Even the crew were tied to the area’s tragic history. “Many of the local Ukrainian and Lithuanian crew members had grandparents, even parents, that had been part of this,” Ihre says.

The exterior façade of the damaged Chernobyl reactor was, in particular, created in a distinct way at a film studio. “They made the front of the film studio into the reactor. When you went inside the reactor, it was the actual film studio inside,” Ihre says. “When we approached the façade, you could actually enter the reactor, you could enter the core, and it became a maze of corridors and rooms.” The ability to take the camera from inside to out was a major boost to making shots of environments feel more believable.

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