 For the film to qualify as a British production, I Could Never Be Your Woman needed to spend a hefty whack of the budget in the UK. That meant partly recreating Los Angeles in London. The team shot 6 weeks at Pinewood and on location in London and then 3 weeks of LA exteriors in America. “Amy would have loved to have
made this film totally in LA,” Hallam-Larkin. “It’s set there, she lives there.”
But Heckerling is a convert to filming in Britain. “Shooting in the UK was like a dream,” she raves. “I love London, I love all the English actors and we filmed at Pinewood, which is where Stanley Kubrick worked! He’s my hero: he was from the Bronx and I’m from the Bronx. To work on those stages was amazing.”  The production company assembled the cream of British talent in front of and behind the camera. A major hook for Heckerling was the opportunity to work with Brian Tufano. “I saw Quadrophenia many years ago and thought, ‘Oh my God that’s what I want my movies to look like.’ I kept trying to track him down but the studios would never pay for me to have an English Director of Photography on the projects that I was working on… So I was thrilled when we got him for this.”
Says Hallam-Larkin: “Brian Tufano is not just a cinematographer, he’s a craftsman. He’s absolutely meticulous. He read the script and wanted to come aboard straight away. Amy is a big fan. I think they make a phenomenal team.” | 
The Shoot
