To assist her in her day-to-day life, her father, Daniel Mark Ruffalo , builds her a wooden scale model of each city, teaching her how to feel her way around with the touch of her fingers.
As we see in Episode 1, Daniel trains young Marie-Laure Nell Sutton to cross the street and find her way home using a miniature replica of the city. Out of love for his daughter, Daniel spends countless hours handcrafting each detailed city from scratch, but it actually took the production team a much longer process to build each model for the limited series. The pressure was enormous. The team had to be considerate of many practical factors too during the entire process.
Then they also had to be mindful of the fact that Loberti and Sutton are very different sizes, but the models had to fit both of their fingers. Elliott says that the biggest challenge was deciding on the scale, since the models also had to make room for a camera lens. Over the course of eight weeks, the production design team used a plethora of technology — including a 3D printer — to create different maquettes that they could move around for the camera. Once the scale was set, the team used wood to build the final model of Paris.
Constructing the second model of Saint-Malo was a different process for the crew. Aria brought that to the table. It just changes your perspective, and I have taken that away with me.
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