Expanding a tradition in films from writer/director Shane Black, the new 2025 movie Play Dirty is a story set at Christmas in New York – but it took a bit of cinematic magic to actually make that special setting happen. Instead of shooting in Manhattan during December, the production took place in Australia during the summer. As you might expect, this circumstance meant that the stars had to do a bit of extra imagining in crafting their performances… but what you probably couldn’t guess is that the work also involved serious distraction from the local fauna.
