Hudson Valley Mansion Is The Real Star Of That New Pete Davidson Movie – Patch

CHAPPAQUA, NY If the mansion in the newly released movie, Bodies Bodies Bodies looks kind of familiar to you, there's a good reason.

It was once one of the Hudson Valley's most unique Patch Wow Houses, noted for its secret passageway.

While the estate itself is well hidden from the road, ads for the new movie, starring Pete Davidson, Lee Pace, Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la Herrold, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders and Conner O'Malley, are hard to miss. "When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong," according to the producer A24's one-line synopsis of the film.

The Georgian stone manor estate, known as "Rosewood," located at 48 Haights Cross Road, was recently priced at $6.75 million (July 2021) but was de-listed on May 23, of this year. The property, which was built in 2004, is a 20,456 square foot, 6-bedroom/10.5-bathroom house on 86 acres, according to public records. It also has a two-story mahogany library, billiard parlor, wine cellar, media room, gym, sauna, indoor basketball court and chef's kitchen. The secret passageway can be found in the master wing. The estate also has hiking trails, sports courts, a pool, a cabana and a landscaped pergola.

The cabana is where much of the Hollywood misadventure takes place in the film.

Chappaqua was chosen as the filming location for Bodies Bodies Bodies because the exclusive enclave "convincingly reflected the high-income demographics of most of the characters in the story." While location scouting, production designer April Lasky said she found the "empty McMansion-style estate that had been on the market for several years, providing an ideal setting for a Covid-era production that had desolation and constriction in its DNA."

Rather than just using the estate for exterior shots, nearly the entire movie was shot on the property, according to the filmmakers.

"Shooting an entire film in one location presents its own challenges, but there are many pros to it as well, the main one being you get to settle into a space and have more time to think about how you want things to look and feel," said Lasky in an A24 release. "With the power outage being central to the story, the colors and sheens selected for the interiors had to be chosen carefully and tested vigorously against the lighting scheme, which includes flashlights, cell phones, and glowsticks in the blackout scenes."

Director Halina Reijn asked for as much prep time as possible in the disused location because she thought the big group scenes, with their complex character dynamics and volatile freakouts, would be challenging to film. "I asked the actors to learn their lines as if we were rehearsing for a play," said Reijn. "In the end they were wonderful they could do a big, complicated scene in one take."

The house's massive living room became the base for the movie's meticulous rehearsals as well as a place where Reijn and the actors could plan complicated scenes that played out in darkness during the game-play sequences.

"The house gave us ample space to feel out its dimensions which was so liberating," said Stenberg. "Our physical blocking and reactions to each other in motion became an important part of the process in terms of finding each scene."

While the William Pitt Julia B. Fee Sothebys International Realty listing for Rosewood is no longer active, photos from the listing can still be seen here.

A peek at the mansion's interiors is available through A24's official trailers:

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