Going for a song
TV & Satellite Week|June 20, 2020
Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams bid for Eurovision glory
JUDY EWENS, SEAN MARLAND, STEVEN PERKINS
Going for a song
The Eurovision Song Contest is the perfect backdrop for a feel-good story, but how do you replicate one of the world’s biggest live television events in a studio in Hertfordshire?

For the team behind Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, written by Will Ferrell and Andrew Steele, the answer was to film some of the footage at the actual Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv in 2019.

‘They let us on stage right before the show,’ reveals director David Dobkin. ‘So we were able to film our biggest songs with our lights and cameras running in the real contest.’

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