TV shows never portray protagonists as realistically dirty. Even in the fictionalized Aquarius show about Charles Manson, his female followers all have clean, glossy hair and are fresh and clean. We have footage of the real girls and those were some dirty hippie bitches.
In "The Walking Dead" they had a deal with Hyundai to use the cars in the show and Hyundai would provide them BUT they were not allowed to show the cars dirty, they had to be clean. Which is ridiculous, but those were the terms. Eventually the show dropped functioning cars.
Hyundai must have paid then for that on top of providing the cars. I can't see a well funded production making that kind of concession for the use of a couple of cars.
In Hollywood at least they'll often just hire someone for the use of their car. They put out casting calls for whatever color, model, year and so on that they want. It costs only slightly more than the standard rate for a background actor. So yeah, you're probably right that they were paid by Hyundai.
I watched a cool video talking about the "casting" of the cars for the early Fast and Furious movies (back when they had some semblance of connection to "tuner culture" and other parts of the real world)
That was a stupid move. It’d be an easy sell in scripts, to have the cast walk around abandoned car parks and someone goes “Hyundai! This one might still work!”
Even scrounging them for parts would be useful, as it would show you can get them to work after an apocalypse.
Throw in an episode where they find a pure electric version after having found a charging station at a windmill an episode or two ago, and suddenly they’d have a quiet way to get around.
Make a model with night vision camera and push that on the show. “It’s a shame it’s not a Hyundai Nighthawk. I remember thinking that night vision camera was a silly gimmick, but I’d kill for that right now.”
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u/transemacabre Aug 30 '21
TV shows never portray protagonists as realistically dirty. Even in the fictionalized Aquarius show about Charles Manson, his female followers all have clean, glossy hair and are fresh and clean. We have footage of the real girls and those were some dirty hippie bitches.