Pedro Pascal played cello on the Newman Scoring Stage: The filming locations of Behemoth!

A special filming location is the Newman Scoring Stage on the 20th Century Fox lot. In an Esquire feature, Gilroy was photographed standing amid rows of orchestra musicians in the centre of the historic stage, its ornate web of microphones dangling from above, the glassed-in control room behind him. Pascal’s character works here – composing and performing film scores in the same room where real film scores have been recorded for decades. The Newman Scoring Stage is where Behemoth! crosses from fiction to reality and back again.

Pascal trained intensively for the cello, working with Tina Guo – whose credits include the contemplative cello heard in The Mandalorian. “He’s a kind of king amongst musicians for film in Los Angeles,” Pascal said.

Concert scenes were filmed on stage at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall – part of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts complex in Costa Mesa, California, and the artistic home of the Pacific Symphony, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and the Pacific Chorale. 

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In November 2025, the production filmed at the historic Greystone Mansion at 905 Loma Vista Drive in Beverly Hills. Scenes were shot around the mansion and its grounds, including one specific sequence on the cypress-lined walkway at the Greystone Mansion and Gardens – the Doheny Estate. 

The Gold Room at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles stood in for the fictional Dallas Philharmonic Gala 2010 – a sequence filmed inside the hotel’s famous historic ballroom, recognisable by its distinctive grand arched mirrored French doors and ornate Beaux-Arts detail. The Biltmore dressing as Dallas is a popular Los Angeles production move – the Gold Room has been used as a stand-in for every kind of formal event since the hotel opened in 1923.

Scenes of Pascal driving through the city were filmed, among other locations, in the 2nd Street Tunnel under Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles – the tunnel connecting South Figueroa Street on the northwest to Hill Street on the southeast. Its futuristic, noir aesthetic has made it a popular tunnels for filmmakers, movies like Blade Runner, The Terminator, and Independence Day were shot here.

Pedro Pascal was also spotted filming on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks – the long commercial strip through the San Fernando Valley that is as specifically, unmistakably Los Angeles as anywhere in the city. 

Behemoth! opens in US theatres on December 4, 2026.