CHRIS LOWE - Production Designer
Team Deakins
James Ellis Deakins
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 176 - Chris Lowe - Production Designer
In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with production designer Chris Lowe (BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE, THE LAST JEDI, IN BRUGES). We worked with Chris on SKYFALL, and we had a great time catching up with him. In addition to production design, Chris has had a long career as an art director, and he helps us understand how the two positions work together on any given project and what each one's responsibilities are. Throughout the episode, Chris also shares his strategies for communicating with directors and producers, creatively adapting to shifting budgets, and delegating duties to members of the art department. We also reflect on why and how the Shanghai skyscraper scene in SKYFALL pivoted from a location to a set, and Chris shares an episode of creative problem solving from THE LAST JEDI involving the Millennium Flacon, Yoda, and a tree. Plus, Chris reveals how he built Bangkok in Prague during the COVID-19 pandemic for THE GRAY MAN.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations |
| 0:10.1 | between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation will take |
| 0:16.0 | us, so listen in and see where it goes. |
| 0:29.8 | This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm XT-52, the industry's most powerful LED point source light. Brighter than a 6K HMI empowered by Aperture's revolutionary |
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| 0:55.7 | Today we're speaking with a production designer who began as an art director. |
| 1:00.6 | His credits include in Bruges, Dark Shadows, Skyfall, and Star Wars, The Last Jedi. |
| 1:08.5 | We're pleased to welcome. Chris Lowe. |
| 1:11.5 | Chris, thank you for doing this. |
| 1:13.9 | It's an absolute pleasure. |
| 1:15.1 | Happy to see you. |
| 1:16.4 | No, it's a wonderful thing to do, and I just so enjoyed listening to the vast majority |
| 1:22.3 | of your podcast already. |
| 1:23.5 | So I was wondering if it would ever come about until a very chance meeting on the seafront in Devon with Roger a few weeks ago. |
| 1:35.2 | So unexpected. Yeah. It's crazy. Anyway, we're glad to remind us actually we should speak to you. |
| 1:42.5 | Because you've had such a sort of storied career. |
| 1:46.2 | You've worked with so many great designers as an art director and now you've production designer |
| 1:52.0 | yourself. |
| 1:52.9 | So, yeah. |
| 1:53.7 | Well, let's start with our normal question, which is how did you get to where you are today? |
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