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One Battle After Another, Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest movie, is a rare instance of success for the “Anytown, USA” setting. Where most pictures flounder with this anonymous approach to the United States—in attempting to present a slice of it that everyone can relate to, they necessarily make up something non-specific and false—One Battle After Another makes it work with a mélange of settings that coalesce into an insane and beautiful American collage. This is an action movie loaded with chase sequences—by car on the open road, on foot over the rooftops and through the back alleys of the last city you’d expect—and there’s a lot of location on display. So, where was One Battle After Another filmed?

The answer to that question is not a short one. One Battle After Another was filmed on location in dozens of cities and sites across California and Texas. Production designer Florencia Martin (who previously spoke with us about her work on Babylon) began the scouting process in 2022, two years before shooting, in order to find authentic places that they could shoot in with minimal intervention that would take us, as she puts it, “from the redwoods to the desert.” Alongside supervising location manager Michael Glaser, she visited more than 25 cities in California in search of potential homes for the radical French 75 cell of which DiCaprio’s Bob is a part, as well as the sanctuary city he and his baby daughter escape to when it all falls apart.

To give us a picture of the United States she was working in, Martin sat down with Condé Nast Traveler to break down One Battle After Another’s key locations. “I feel like I could talk so much more about each person we met and each city we went to,” she says, “It was an amazing challenge.”

Sergio St. Carlos (Benicio del Toro) under arrest on a desert road near Borrego Springs.

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Sacramento, California

After an electric opening scene at the US-Mexico border (more on that below) we follow the French 75 to the anonymous city in which they are concentrating their next spate of actions—robbing banks, bombing banks, and so on. That city is actually Sacramento, the capital of California, which Martin and company landed on in part because it doesn’t have a long history in the movies—Lady Bird was a big love letter to the city, yes, but Lady Bird this is not. While that film was concentrated in Sacramento’s suburbs, One Battle After Another finds its home in the downtown, of which Martin says, “The Brutalist buildings there, the courthouses, Capitol Mall—it just suited [the French 75’s] call for action. The city was incredible and allowed us to shut down those major avenues for our car chases, and they let us do an actual practical explosion at the bank.” As far as hotels go, the exterior of the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel was used.

Humboldt County, California

When things go south for the 75, Bob takes his infant daughter Willa and flees to Baktan Cross, a fictional city that’s half-Humboldt County, half-El Paso. Let’s begin with the former, where Bob and Willa’s house sits amidst the redwoods. Martin says, “Bob’s a revolutionary, based [in part on the Weather Underground.] A lot of those people were in the Bay area, and once that revolution ended, they went up to Humboldt to go into hiding and create a new world for themselves.” They scouted over a dozen houses before landing on the one bedroom cottage that gave the impression that time had stopped—”he had this whole idea, when he first moved there, to build these elaborate tunnels and escape paths, but then nobody ever came.” Well, when they do come for him, the world of Humboldt opens up to the audience ever so slightly. We see Bob flee to Murphy’s Market in Eureka, where he makes his desperate call to French 75 on a payphone out front. Willa’s high school dance is shot at the real Eureka High School, “a huge, massive high school built for the logging community.” The school’s real students appear as the kids at the dance. Willa’s karate dojo, where she is taught by Sensei Sergio St. Carlos (Benicio del Toro) is inspired by a real one in Eureka, although production wound up recreating it in El Paso.

In-N-Out Burger’s president and owner is moving her family out of the state where the burger chain began.

Lynsi Snyder, 43, who has been president of In-N-Out since 2010, sat down for an episode of the podcast “Relatable,” and said that she and her family are moving from her home state of California to Tennessee, where In-N-Out is opening a new office.

“We’re building an office, so I’m actually moving out there,” Snyder said on the podcast that aired on Friday. “There [are] a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business it’s not easy here now.”

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In January 2023, In-N-Out announced that it’s opening its first East Coast restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, and building its first East Coast headquarters about 20 miles away in Franklin, which will cost $125 million to construct. The burger chain plans to spread across Tennessee, expanding to Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis, opening more than a dozen locations.

In-N-Out is also opening new locations in Arizona, California, and Colorado this year and debuting its first location in Washington.

Snyder, who grew up in Northern California, said on the podcast that “the bulk” of In-N-Out stores are still going to be in the state, but that she is looking forward to having more of a footprint in Tennessee.

“It will be wonderful having an office out there, growing out there, and being able to have the family and other people’s families out there,” Snyder said on the podcast.

In-N-Out will also be consolidating its two existing California corporate offices, moving its Irvine headquarters to Baldwin Park, where the first In-N-Out location opened in the 1940s. Snyder disclosed on the podcast that the Irvine office will close by 2030 to complete the consolidation.

According to the California Department of Justice, the violent crime rate in the state increased 15.1% from 2018 to 2023. According to Statista, around 3,640 violent crimes per 100,000 residents were reported in Oakland, California, in 2023, making Oakland the most dangerous city in the U.S. that year. Snyder said last year that rising crime and “absolutely dangerous” conditions caused In-N-Out to shut down a restaurant in Oakland in March 2024, marking the first time in the burger chain’s 77-year history that it had to shutter a restaurant.

Snyder said that the company closed the profitable Oakland location “for the safety of our associates,” adding that “gunshots went through the store, there was a stabbing, there was a lot.”

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Snyder’s grandparents, Harry and Esther Snyder, founded In-N-Out in 1948 as a single drive-thru hamburger restaurant in Baldwin Park, California. Today, the company has grown to more than 400 locations that bring in $2.1 billion a year, according to consulting firm Technomic.

Snyder took over In-N-Out in 2017 at age 35 when she received the final portion of her inheritance that gave her 97% ownership of the company. She became one of the world’s youngest billionaires in the process.

In-N-Out differentiates itself from competitors by vowing to never freeze ingredients and crafting fresh-to-order burgers. The company has also never franchised, remaining privately owned.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Snyder has a net worth of $7.32 billion, making her the 483rd richest person in the world.

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