"Pan Am": The First Class Flight Back To 1960 Glamourhits

They could have called a stage or a studio, but prefers the term is "the ship".

Why not? Conveniently located next to the Steiner Studios in Brooklyn has a lot of depth in the storage shed is now used to house a critical part of the new ABC series, "Pan Am" jet.

In other words, life size model of a jet in the cabin. Mounted on a platform 5 feet of concrete floor is "the body" (no wings or tail) in the series proud Boeing 707, whose interior, as opposed to the rough shell of the plan design tube length is the perfect period detail that harken back to the early 1960s - the era of burgeoning commercial jet flight where luxury airline Pan American World Airways has prospered, and when "Pan Am" takes place.

Two dozen "passengers" (male figures with their strong business suits, which is like the air-clad men at the time) are waiting to get lopped-off of the fuselage to repopulate the next shot.

Also ready for the board: the hostesses. Played by Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner, Karine Vanasse and Margot Robbie they, of course, are the real stars of "Pan Am".

By starting Sunday at 10 pm ET, "Pan Am" is a globe-spanning set melodrama in the Kennedy presidency, with all his novels, the glamor and excitement of a new era up (plus a few the cloak and dagger, one of the hostesses was written by the government of being a spy).

"I had an image in the first episode of the series," said Thomas Schlamme, an executive producer who also directed the first. "Hostesses Heels" high by clicking on the track with a girl looking out the door admiration. "

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Schlamme said he knew the series would be received with suspicion that he was a little sexist. As expected, votes were cast from the outset that "Pan Am" perpetuates stereotypes pre-feminist.

"I want to turn the stereotype on its head," he said. "The hostesses were really a fascinating group of people."

And a suitable producer of the series of the past as "Jack & Bobby" and "The West Wing," Schlamme adds that wants to launch in "Pan Am" and the patriotism, as if to say ". This is what we do in America - and we still can "

If only! Just a little clue to the distance can-do spirit "Pan Am" Chronicles: Here in the hangar is Nancy Hult ISED, an executive producer and former Pan Am flight attendant who instructs a prop assistant on how to prepare a Tom Collins (with the required orange slice and a maraschino cherry) according to the rigorous standards of a vintage Pan Am flight attendant manual. And a feast for the "passengers" in a scene the next day the snails with melon and prosciutto.

The show is dazzling to the eyes, with help from a huge computer graphics: A large part of the World Gateway terminal multilevel, and even looks stylish 707, a virtual, as it is hot asphalt, all shot with green screen studio in Steiner third

However, the flight attendants are the flesh and blood, and beautiful. (And yes, white lily when the series began in 1963. But the color barrier will be broken as "Pan Am" recounts the struggle of civil rights and other world events taking place.)

"I feel like these are very modern women of her time," says Kelli Garner, star of Kate, an adventurous spy-start. "Even if they should be beautiful and men to serve the coffee, what we have here could also be a beautiful and stimulating."

Waiting in the hangar for its next stage, Garner looks stylish and sinuous in its Pan Am blue twill uniform.

"I think the uniforms cover so much and they are still as beautiful and sexy," she said.

They are evocative, both for her as an actress and admiration of the public.

"I get behind the stove, pulling on my belt and pull down the skirt," he said. "I am confident that the hostess did the same and I felt so uncomfortable at a time. But I really want. It makes me feel like I'm one of them.

"We have the choice of actors simply wear pantyhose regularly," he explains, "but we all want the belt" and, as she says, offering a small insight into the hem of her skirt, revealing clips downs straps for belt .

"The uniform brings a certain elegance - a different kind of femininity," agrees Karine Vanasse, who plays Colette, a French-born romantic "With demand in the details below wearing a thong would be weird .." .

The set of "Pan Am" also includes Mike Vogel and Michael Mosley, who ran as a pilot of the aircraft and the passenger, lecturing at the cabin - a cabin of 707 stored in a real airplane graveyard and grafted on the forward fuselage attachment.

But - damn stereotypes! - "Pan Am" is not a man's world.

"The voice of the sample is the woman," says Christina Ricci, who plays Maggie independent spirit. "You can make a program about this time without the participation of real sexism that existed at that time. However, the show does not glorify sexism or revel in it. It's more like," This is something we have to deal with. " And then throw away look. "

So, she says she is enjoying her role - or, more precisely, its role in a paper.

"I play a character who goes to work, and play a different character when it comes:" Can I get you another drink, sir? "It 'really fun for me."

It fell to costume designer Ane Crabtree uniform to repeat the flight attendants' (including many over clothing), where the challenge of revitalizing the signing of the "Pan Am Blue", two decades after the airline closed.

What inspired the blue?

"The ocean and sky, reflected in the logo of Pan Am world and the world of Pan Am was," he said. "I think it's more blue, how would it be?"

"The uniform is a great tool for action," said Margot Robbie, who plays Kate's younger sister Winsome Laura.

The "Pan Am" Premiere, the most visually pleasing POP Kate on the cover of Life magazine for a story under the headline "Welcome to the jet age." The picture of her, would have broken at an event outside Pan Am building, said enormous attention - and a measure of the discomfort of his colleagues, when Kate, emphasis added life to represent Pan Am stewardess, is brand new on the job.

Recalling photoshoot for the cutting of the CAP in Midtown Manhattan, Robbie said she felt that she had not only reached half a century in the past, but had little town with it.

"When I pose, I saw this older man, who seemed to be from the 60 century, in his coat and brown hat Double-Take him and said." My God, is the Pan Am! "

"Yes, sir, is," I said to him, and he smiled and said. "Ahhh, that takes me back"

From Sunday, "Pan Am" begins to take its scheduled return to the public every week.

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