An intimate moment in the finale.
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Shooting the finale of any show can be an intense experience, but not every show is as intense as The Leftovers, and not every shoot wraps in rural Australia during a historically rainy spring. Stars Carrie Coon and Justin Theroux, director Mimi Leder and her intrepid cameraman Chris Cuevas faced all kinds of pressures — time, budget, weather, and most of all, the drive to get it right just one last time. But they also had the chance to say their final bittersweet goodbyes in a land far removed from Hollywood and its attendant neuroses, an area marked in the finale script only as “Another Time, Another Place.â€