Want to live in the same neighborhood as Rick and the gang? Well, you can know live in Alexandria!

According to EW, you don’t have to get recruited by Aaron to live in ‘The Walking Dead’ community of Alexandria. You can actually live there in real life. The community deciding whether to kill or save Rick Grimes is an actual subdivision known as the Gin Property in Senoia, GA., and, yes, people do live in some of the houses.

From EW:

When I was on set for last week’s episode and the big fight scene between Rick and Pete, filming was momentarily halted while a mail truck drove through to deliver catalogs and bills to residents of the community.

But, it begs the question, how was a hit TV show able to film in a community subdivision? Well, the community was specifically built to be used as a live set:

Because it was actually developed by Scott Tigchelaar, the president of Raleigh Studios Atlanta, the home base for The Walking Dead in Senoia. (The famous prison from season 3 and 4 was built onto the back of Raleigh.) And as Walking Dead exec-producer Gale Anne Hurd explains, Gin Property was specifically built to also be used as a live set.

“It’s called the Gin Property development outside of Senoia where our studios are,” Hurd tells EW. “And luckily the community was developed by the same people who own the studios. Part of the covenant in the CC&Rs of that community is that it is designed to be a haven and a draw for filming, so that’s something that all the residents there were aware of—[though they] may have forgotten. But I have a feeling the blasting lights at three in the morning probably reminded them.”

But, living their comes with a price. All residents are forced to live around a giant 15-foot wall around a majority of the property.

CC&Rs stands for Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions, which basically are rules placed on homes by—in this case—a developer. So if you want to buy a house and live there, you agree to the conditions. And now one of those conditions has become a giant 15-foot wall around the majority of the property to simulate the wall around Alexandria in the comic books on which the show is based.

But, it is important to note in a potential spoiler, ‘The Walking Dead’ producers have the option to renew their agreement until 2019 which means the cast and crew will probably not leave the community of Alexandria any time soon.

According to the Newnan Times-Herald, the studio has a wall permit that extends to Nov. 30, 2015, with the option for annual renewals through 2019. That’s a lot of wall. (It should also be noted that Alexandria is still an active community in the comic books, so folks could be there for a while.)

Not too many residents seem to happy about ‘The Walking Dead’ filming there. “Kathleen Sullivan, who lives on Plyant Street in the community did not sound particularly enthused about the enclosure when she spoke to the Times-Herald. “I said that the wall would be ugly. None of us had seen it yet. But, OMG, it is uglier than I could ever imagine.”

Would you live in the Alexandria community?

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Allison Jones, the casting director of a ton of hit comedies and shows reveals how she discovered the cast of ‘Superbad’ and Jonah Hill.

In an excellent profile piece on casting director Allison Jones, Jones reveals her experiences in the film industry, what she looks for in actors, and how she discovered Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill and the entire cast of ‘The Office’.

From The New Yorker:

In 1999, she cast Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Jason Segel in the critically acclaimed, poorly watched teen series “Freaks and Geeks.” The show, created and written by Feig and produced by Apatow, was a coming-of-age story set in the suburban Michigan of Feig’s youth. Jones won the show’s only Emmy, for her casting. Several years later, she met with a young, sweaty Jonah Hill, who was desperate for an introduction to Apatow. She told Apatow that Hill was weird and hilarious. That sufficed; Apatow expanded a cameo part for Hill in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” as an odd but lovable eBay customer. Two years later, Hill was cast with Michael Cera in “Superbad,” a raunchy teen comedy that Apatow produced. It was left to Jones to find their nerdier-than-thou friend McLovin. Jones posted notices seeking high-school students in L.A. After seeing thousands of candidates, she caught a glimpse of a camera-phone head shot sent in by a sixteen-year-old named Christopher Mintz-Plasse. She called the director, Greg Mottola, and excitedly said, “I think I found McLovin; he’s like Dill from ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ ” Jones told me, “You could tell he was a kid who probably had seen the inside of a locker.” Since then, Mintz-Plasse has starred in six movies.

You would expect the casting director behind so many hit movies and TV shows would be rolling in dough. But, unfortunately that is not the truth. Instead of getting paid a percentage of every episode movie, or rerun, the casting director received a flat fee which still bothers her.

Jones doesn’t share in a film’s profits; instead, she receives a flat fee of up to ninety thousand dollars. She cast “The Office” pilot for forty thousand dollars, and received a fraction of that for each episode, but receives nothing from reruns or digital sales of any of her shows. In the past, she has offered to take no money up front and just a tiny percentage of profit if a show does well, but producers have never taken her up on the deal. She noted that there’s still no Academy Award for casting. “Believe me, it’s sad for me that I have to still get a J. Crew shirt instead of a shirt from Barneys when I know that Jonah Hill is worth millions of dollars,” she said. “It’s not a bitter thing, but it’s just, like, ‘Ah shit, I’m doing something wrong.’ ”

Check out the amazing piece on Allison Jones here on The New Yorker.

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