Is that really Washington? Why more movies could be made in the Evergreen State

Is that really Washington? Why more movies could be made in the Evergreen State Dyer Oxley October 29, 2025 / 7:45 am

After the book achieved best-selling status, the film potential for “The Boys in the Boat” created significant buzz around Hollywood. The story was certain to hit the big screen, but how it would get there wasn’t so clear.

The historic tale of a University of Washington rowing team had many assuming that cameras would be rolling locally, filming Lake Washington and other Seattle sites where this history actually took place.

That didn’t happen. “The Boys in the Boat,” directed by George Clooney and starring Joel Edgerton, was filmed in the United Kingdom in 2022 and released the following year.

This article is from Meet Me Here , KUOW’s arts podcast, ahead of t