These celebrities hid among BART riders for S.F. film shoot: ‘I've never seen anything like it'
Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen spent rush hour on BART while filming their new project in San Francisco.
Both actors casually roamed Glen Park Station on Tuesday, May 20, shooting scenes for the upcoming romantic comedy 'The Invite,' BART representatives confirmed.
'It was a fantastic experience. Seth Rogen was awesome, he interacted with patrons,' Matt Overall, a BART transportation supervisor who was on-site Wednesday, told the Chronicle.
Overall was supervising the shoot, which took about four hours, to ensure that it didn't interfere with regular service.
'The crew was amazing,' he added 'They were astonished at how well the station looked … They told us that the BART system was better than any system they've been on from L.A. to New York to Chicago.'
Wilde is both directing and starring in the film, which also features Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton. It draws inspiration from the Spanish film, 'Sentimental' (2020), and was adapted by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, following two couples during an evening of 'repressed emotions and unexplored sexuality,' according to the film's official synopsis obtained by Variety.
The project marks Wilde's third as director, her most recent being the 2022 thriller 'Don't Worry Darling.'
A release date for 'The Invite' has not yet been announced.
BART's communications department issued a film permit for a cast and crew of 25 to shoot scenes at the station from 2-6 p.m. on Tuesday. 'The Invite' was approved to film both on the platform and on an in-service train to Balboa Park Station.
The crew was 'filming a scene in which Rogen's character, a piano teacher, is commuting on BART with a bike, exits a train at Glen Park Station, goes up the escalator and exits the station,'
Filming notices recently posted by Invite Productions, Inc. around the Make Out Room nightclub suggest that the production will continue shooting scenes in the Mission District on Wednesday, May 21. The company is based out of the same West Hollywood address as Annapurna Pictures, which is working on 'The Invite.'
Prior to Tuesday's BART shoot, Wilde and Rogen filmed a scene in the auditorium of A.P. Giannini Middle School that morning, the school's Assistant Principal Heidi Smoot confirmed to the Chronicle.
Though Smoot said the filming process at the school was 'self-contained' to ensure students were in class and not interfering, the project's BART visit was a stark contrast.
Commuters were 'ecstatic' when they realized Rogen and Wilde were filming at the station, though many didn't immediately notice the actors or film crew because they blended in so well, according to Overall. Once they did, however, he said many riders lingered on the platform to take photos.
'I've never seen anything like it,' Overall said. 'The public was really engaged and they were really happy to see that BART is finding other means of adding revenue to our service. It's so positive that they're doing things like this, and I think we need to do more of it.'
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