It was a rainy Thursday afternoon for the filming of the movie “There She Goes,” starring Rachael Leigh Cook (“She’s All That”) and Utkarsh Ambudkar (“Pitch Perfect” and "Ghosts"). At 11am-ish, part of Main Street closed down from Luxe Optique to Bank Square. People could walk down the sidewalk, but it was clear there was a movie filming on one side of the sidewalk. It wasn’t clear if people could shop or not, so many just stopped and stared.

The door was open at Notions N Potions, and owner Sheryl Glickman was standing outside, also watching. A Little Beacon Blog hopped over to say hello. There were two background actors (extras) placed in her doorway, and rumblings on set were that they were getting close to filming. Everyone was getting into their places. So, Sheryl and this blogger sat in Shery’s tarot card reading chairs in her front window to watch the scene unfold.

In the first video, the “walk and talk” rolled by with Rachael and Utkarsh walking and talking to each other, in a build up of a heated moment. Next thing we knew, the actors were headed back down the sidewalk, this time, throwing ice at each other from their drinks! Much to our surprise, the actors actually ducked into Notions N Potions in an unscripted moment. Watch that in the third video. All videos are below.

UPDATE: Watch scenes being filmed here.

Filming for “There She Goes,” starring Rachael Leigh Cook (“She’s All That”) and Utkarsh Ambudkar (“Pitch Perfect”) from Choice Films happens on Main Street in Beacon, NY between Utensil (143 Main Street) and Digger Phelps Court (M&T Bank) today, Thursday, May 16th, 2024, for today. For interior scenes, the film is using the stages at Umbra in Newburgh. The City of Beacon posted a notice that this round will be for today only, and does involve parking closures and some street blockage. The area between South Avenue and Cliff Street will have intermittent closures to vehicle traffic between 12pm-6pm, according to the City’s announcement.

Choice Films is a regular in Beacon, with filming of “Pokerface” in town (yesss, “in town,” we know Beacon is a city, get over it) and “I Know This Much Is True” (Mark Ruffalo), which filmed at All Sport over the summer of 2019.

Rachel Leigh Cook, in a preview for “A Tourists Guide To Love”

According to IMDB, the plot is “under wraps.” According to the street, this movie will be a romantic comedy. Already, local businesses have been frequented, with purchases of ice at Key Food and film rental equipment from CineHub.

While the trucks are parked in Beacon’s free municipal lot, right next to Beacon Bread, who knows who else will feel an economic lift from the filming. Film crew should visit A Little Beacon Blog’s Restaurant, Shopping, and Beauty Guides for the list of all of the places to go for their needs.

The City of Beacon usually gets a film permit fee, and there may be police overtime charged to the production company. From time to time, City Administrator Chris White will reveal how these fees are spent back onto the City of Beacon. He should feel free to comment at any time on where this film permit will be going. However, since he has a “No Comment” policy for A Little Beacon Blog for himself and every single department head employed by the City of Beacon, we will just have to wait for him to drop a crumb at a City Council Meeting.

Click to listen to Utkarsh Ambudkar on PBS News Hour “Utkarsh Ambudkar's Brief But Spectacular Take On Avoiding Ethnic Stereotypes” .

Fans of “Pitch Perfect” will be delighted to watch the rapper/actor Utkarsh Ambudkar on screen. It is unknown at this time where the scene will take place, or which actors will be in Beacon. For now, fans can watch Utkarsh on PBS News Hour “Utkarsh Ambudkar's Brief But Spectacular Take On Avoiding Ethnic Stereotypes” talk about how he avoids ethnic stereotyping in roles he accepts, and lines he agrees or disagrees to say in auditions.

From the video interview, Utkarsh said:

“So I have been in auditions where they wrote a line in their show about an Indian teacher with a strong accent saying that he would sell 10 goats to get a woman like that in his classroom.”

“So this is offensive. And I told my manager, no, there's no way I'm going to do this.”

“My manager said, OK, go in. You can put your own spin on it. They're fine.”

“So I go and I do my no accent and my improv.”

“He said, ‘Can you just do it the way that I wrote it’"

"‘You want me to do it the way you wrote it, like, even this line about the goats?’"

“The sauce on what I said was so thick that there was only one interpretation to take from it. And that's not how you do business and it's not how we should communicate with each other.”

“In any case, that's my responsibility, but his responsibility is to not write a piece of (EXPLETIVE DELETED) that's offensive, right?”

“Now, when I walk into a room -- and it just happened on ‘Mulan.’ I just went and did this Disney movie, and there were some challenges with sort of the way that our ethnicities were being portrayed.”

“And I was able to go into the room with Disney. I mean, it's a giant conglomerate. And the script was changed and moved around and built and enhanced to sort of speak to some of the concerns that we had.”