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Step inside the world of Scrubs with Architectural Digest as Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke give you a behind-the-scenes tour of the rebuilt Sacred Heart Hospital. Production designer Roger Fires was tasked with building a 100% accurate sound stage recreation since the demolition of the original filming location–the North Hollywood Medical Centre. Join the cast as they take you through the halls of Sacred Heart, ready for the Scrubs revival.
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00:01Oh, hey, D. How are you? I'm Zach Braff. Welcome to our fake hospital.
00:23The thing that was crazy about this project was fully recreating an actual hospital where we shot
00:30the original scrubs show. And we would shoot on the first floor, the second floor, and the fourth floor.
00:37And all the dressing rooms and offices and everything was on the third floor.
00:40So what you're seeing first here is a recreation of the outside here in Vancouver.
00:47And this is exactly 100% accurate what the outside of scrubs look like.
00:52Except, of course, if you tilt up, this is just a warehouse.
00:55Now, if you do a transition here, you'll be able to see what it looks like in post when we
01:00do what's called a set extension
01:01and recreate the full four-story hospital.
01:07The magic of filmmaking. Let's go inside and I'll show you around.
01:15So one of the amazing things is that we were able to recreate the full scale of all the major
01:22playing spaces from the original scrubs show.
01:26This is the entrance and this is the only section we couldn't fully connect to everything because of just the
01:31layout of this warehouse.
01:32But I want to show you something really cool that our brilliant production designer Roger came up with.
01:37This is an optical illusion. If you look down, that is not just your average scenic drop.
01:43Just keep getting closer. Keep going. Keep going. Go to the side and you'll see that it's fully three-dimensional.
01:52It's really trippy. This is all Roger's brilliance.
01:58Long time ago, I saw this painting made by this artist called Patrick Hughes, kind of the same principle as
02:03the Haunted Mansion.
02:05And at this day, when you see the concave bust following your eye line, what about we make a photo
02:12of the hallway with this reverse perspective that creates an illusion in the parallax of the movement.
02:17So I contacted the artist and he was really helpful. It's like, I'm happy that you call me. Everyone steal
02:23my idea, but you call.
02:25I'm so happy that you call. You can do whatever you want. If you need my help, I'm going to
02:29be happy to help you.
02:30When we go shoot there, you see everyone standing and swinging to see the effect of the hallway. The result
02:38is quite incredible.
02:45You'll notice there's a little bit of haze in here. That's because we were doing a bar scene with lots
02:49of smokes.
02:49You'll hear me say this probably a couple of times. I always thought we were going to recreate this like
02:53maybe 65% to scale, 75% to scale.
02:57This is a 100% accurate recreation of the hospital cafeteria where so many good scenes have gone down.
03:05You should try trading places with me for one day.
03:10It's actually not that bad. And the lace feels soft against my package.
03:15I mean, I spent nine years of my life in this exact space when it was on Riverside and Whitsitt
03:21in the valley of Los Angeles.
03:23So it's just very surreal. I mean, we spent so much time here.
03:27When I knew we were going to do a revival, I never thought in a thousand years it would be
03:31on a set that was this enormous.
03:34I mean, there's, I think there's 30,000 square feet of hospital. It's pretty effing insane.
03:40What the hell, man? You're not with the Todd?
03:42I knew with you would be therapy. I didn't want to go deep.
03:44The Todd really likes to go deep. With consent, five.
03:55The main thoroughfare of the OG Scrubs Hospital, and you're going to come around the bend here into admissions.
04:04In all these years, wouldn't they have maybe updated their mural? But for the fans, we wanted all these little
04:09Easter egg things to be the same.
04:11You know, things like the neon pharmacy sign. Even if you come around 180 and see the flowers neon of
04:19the gift shop.
04:20There was a whole thing about the gift shop girl and JD having a relationship with her.
04:24All of this has just been meticulously recreated. It's really very surreal.
04:29We were so lucky back in the day because we could go anywhere in the hospital.
04:34And it was a real luxury because on a normal half-hour comedy, you've been constrained to a certain amount
04:40of sets.
04:40Well, they tore that building down. So when we decided to bring the show back to Sacred Heart, we had
04:47a conundrum to solve.
04:48How are we gonna, how are we gonna do it?
04:50One of the benefits of actually building a set, we can fix all the problems that you have on a
04:56practical location,
04:57which is wild walls, shoot abilities, lighting.
05:00I like a good example that in the animations, the new original was carpet and terracotta tiles,
05:06which for any dolly shot was a mayhem for them. And what we did was kind of level everything.
05:12Shouldn't be mopping in here anyway. This is a rug.
05:17With the gift shop, there was another set that it was never shot properly in the original one because it
05:24was too small.
05:24There was no angles. There's no walls that could be turned out to do like a wild, a camera port.
05:29We planned the gift shop to be like a friendly environment that we can shoot and have scenes and beats
05:35and wild walls and flooring and lighting was a benefit that we took to the maximum here.
05:48Okay, here we're going into Turk's world. This is the surgical hallway. Fans will remember so many scenes that took
05:56place in here.
05:57Just take the last word he says and add a five to it.
05:59I don't know, it just all seems a little unfair.
06:01Unfair five.
06:03Thanks, man. You always know the right things to say.
06:05I work hard on those.
06:06This is a funny, interesting thing for those of you film geeks. These windows all gimbal because when you're shooting
06:11glass, there's so many reflections.
06:14There you go. There's your film trick of the day.
06:18Back when we were making Scrubs, the American Medical Association said, believe it or not, even though Scrubs was a
06:23comedy, it was the most accurate in terms of the experience for doctors and nurses in a hospital.
06:29The pit has taken that mantle these days. Obviously, they really cherish being super accurate. And we really wanted to
06:37at least be tied with the pit with our accuracy.
06:41You know, there's multiple medical professionals on set that are always telling us exactly how everything should be. Great pains
06:47we're taking to get everything perfect.
06:49Get a load of this motley crew.
06:56No, no, no. Sorry.
06:57One of the things I really want to do here is that specific smell of the hospital.
07:03And I want to surprise Zach.
07:05And I told him that I had bought this scent that we actually can spray and then it smells like
07:12a hospital.
07:13And Zach was like, hell no, I don't want to smell a hospital here.
07:18I was like, oh, I should have surprised them then.
07:26When we made the original Scrubs, the bar was very small because it was, it, it was, uh, see, there's
07:33the bell. They're shooting something.
07:34The bar was wedged into what was the old urgent care at the hospital.
07:38So we wanted to make a new bar with a little more space in it.
07:43And Roger came up with this beautiful bar with a railroad theme.
07:47We wanted to do a tribute to Sam Lloyd, who played Ted the lawyer who has passed away.
07:54And so Roger came up with the idea to name this Lloyd's Junction.
07:57And so the whole bar is named after Sam Lloyd. So he'll always be here with us.
08:02Who's the man?
08:05Is it me?
08:06Damn right it's you.
08:08Oh.
08:10I'm obsessed with my foster dog named Penny.
08:13He did a lex or something for me and made Penny one of the taps.
08:16So if you ever come to Lloyd's Junction, request the, the Penny beer.
08:22One thing about the original Scrubs is that every set was built into this old hospital.
08:28So not just the hospital sets, but like Turk and JD's apartment, the bar.
08:33Dr. Cox's apartment was in the basement.
08:35If you look at Dr. Cox's apartment in the show, it has no windows.
08:38Really? Maybe there's some frosted glass.
08:41That's because it was like next door to the morgue in the hospital.
08:44So we had to come up with some really interesting choices to squeeze everything in there.
08:49Can I count on you to never drop by here ever again or say just go ahead and move?
08:54Oh, you can't leave a place with this much warmth.
09:02The second you walk in here, you're hot.
09:07This is the ICU of Sacred Heart.
09:10The ICU is a great set for Scrubs the show because so many different doctors,
09:15whether they be surgical or medical, can sort of convene around this nurse's station.
09:19All rolling.
09:20Yeah.
09:21We have to be quiet now or we'll get yelled at.
09:26People want to know what it's like to be on a film set.
09:28It's mostly just standing here in silence like this.
09:34It's not very exciting.
09:36Donald will fuck up his lines really quick and he'll have to cut.
09:39I'll be able to talk regularly again.
09:40Oh yeah, I told you.
09:42So this is the six bed area.
09:45Again, so many classic scrub scenes take place in this very area right here.
09:50The title sequence of Scrubs, it's called a motion control shot.
09:54Every single character does the same exact movement and the cameras are controlled by a computer.
09:59So it does the exact same shot every single time.
10:02And we just recreated it for the new season.
10:04But we walk here and then stop and then someone else comes here and they put their stethoscope on.
10:11And then someone else gets handed an iPad and they walk over to here and they throw the image of
10:16an x-ray up on a computer monitor.
10:18Now a funny little tidbit for you guys.
10:21Back in the old days, it was actually a physical x-ray we put on a light box.
10:26And somehow the chest x-ray went up backwards.
10:30And we tried to rationalize it by saying, well, they're interns. They don't know any better.
10:34There was a lot of questioning.
10:36Should we still have the x-ray be backwards in the new incarnation?
10:39But we figured, you know what, it's digital.
10:41And they're very experienced doctors at this point.
10:45It should probably be the right way.
10:48Oh my god, look everyone, it's Donald Faison, the actor.
10:52Donald.
10:53Donald.
10:54Say hi to Architectural Digest.
10:56A.D., what is really good?
10:58Welcome.
10:59I hope Zach is giving you a great tour.
11:02I did give them a very nice tour.
11:04Where did you tour?
11:04I showed them all the sets and we had to be quiet while you were rolling.
11:08But I told them, don't worry, Donald will mess up his lines and they'll have to cut.
11:12Did I?
11:12Well, it wasn't too long that we had...
11:14Did I mess up? I didn't.
11:15You're full of crap, A.D.
11:16You can hear it.
11:17Hey, don't get mad at A.D.
11:17He nodded and I'm...
11:19Hello, A.D.
11:20Welcome to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
11:24I'm Donald Faison.
11:25You're on the set of Scrubs.
11:27Apparently you've talked to some of our cast mates like Zach Braff.
11:31I heard he had a lot to say.
11:33But did you talk to Sarah Chalk?
11:35Oh, hi, Donald.
11:36You're in the supply closet.
11:38Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what this does.
11:40I think it's a comb.
11:40No, it's a dinglehopper.
11:43From The Little Mermaid, it's a dinglehopper.
11:45It's a little m...
11:46Look at this stuff.
11:47A dingle.
11:47Isn't it neat?
11:48Enough, enough.
11:48The detail only...
11:49This is crazy.
11:50It's crazy.
11:51Like, I don't know what these things do.
11:52My very first scene, I think, was in the supply closet.
11:54In the pilot, the scene with Zach.
11:56Did you shoot in...
11:58It doesn't look like the old supply closet, though.
12:00This is...
12:00We've got a couple different supply closets.
12:04Right.
12:05Pass me a trick kit.
12:08Thanks.
12:10I got goosebumps the first time I walked on here.
12:12Like, I was racing here.
12:13It was for wardrobe fitting.
12:14And I hadn't, like, mentally prepared that it was going to be identical.
12:18The details, the feeling of it...
12:20To scale.
12:20To scale.
12:21Because, obviously, it was, like, another character in the show.
12:25This abandoned hospital that had been a functioning hospital for decades.
12:29Okay, this was one of the trippiest sets to walk onto, because it's just so specific.
12:35This, like, the ceiling tiles and the paint...
12:38Right.
12:38Like, everything, they've made it completely exact.
12:41My memory of this hallway is...
12:43Surgical medical.
12:44Surgical, yeah.
12:45Surgical medical.
12:46Surgical, yeah.
12:51One of the only musicals I've been allowed to be part of in my whole life.
12:54Sarah Chalk is an amazing dancer, you guys.
12:56Oh, my God, when I stand here, do you remember Neil in Proven?
12:59Oh.
13:00He just went off and was like, take after take after take after take.
13:02The writers would start to write his dialogue, and then they'd put in brackets or whatever Neil says.
13:06Girl problems?
13:07How'd you know?
13:09You look like you got problems. You're a girl.
13:11Hence, girl problems. Watch your nails.
13:19This is where all of us first... the three of us, the trio, this is where we all met.
13:23You, me, and JD.
13:26In the lounge.
13:28Donald was playing Pac-Man.
13:29This isn't the same lounge as the original pilot, either.
13:32This is...
13:32So the original pilot, we shot in a hospital in Burbank, California.
13:35And then we had to move to the new hospitals.
13:40But the Pac-Man machine is where we met Elliot.
13:43I'm Elliot.
13:44Elliot.
13:46Yeah, don't.
13:46Elliot.
13:47Yeah, don't.
13:48See, that was the thing.
13:49That, I think is what I said.
13:50And then if you turn around that way, over here is where the now default dance that the kids call
13:56it happened.
13:57I was late for work that day. I think I was like 30 minutes late.
14:01And the thing was packed with everybody in the room.
14:05And I thought, oh shit, I'm in deep trouble.
14:07But no, they were here to see the dance.
14:09They had to explain to me what was happening in the scene. I remember this.
14:13I was like, so why am I dancing? And they were like, you're dancing because you're auditioning for this band.
14:17And I was like, all right, well, what's the song? And they said, Poison.
14:19So Belle Bib DeVoe, Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresven, Johnny Gill.
14:24All of those guys are the reason why the Poison dance came out that way.
14:27Because all I did was bit them.
14:38I was really lucky to be here when Zach came to see the set for the first time.
14:45He was just like speechless for three minutes looking at us like, I can't believe that you guys did this.
14:52Every step that you go further and further into the hospital, it was like, oh my God.
14:58I bumped into Donald and he was like, I want to see the set.
15:02I was like, I'll walk you.
15:04It was just like, it felt like I've never, I was here yesterday.
15:09I've never left.
15:10And that is one of the biggest compliments, having caused that reaction in the cast.
15:16And everyone that comes here is like, oh my God, it's, it's, I'm back home.
15:21If the audience at home have the same reaction, I think that's successful.
15:27The people that were craving the return of scrubs can see Sacred Heart, see this environment
15:34and be here at Salakay and back home.
15:39Hey AD, thank you for stopping by.
15:41We got to get back to work.
15:42And we're very grateful that you came to visit us.
15:45We're going to give you a wave goodbye.
15:47Can we get a wave goodbye?
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