Appearing on his Literally! podcast with guest Adam Scott, Rob Lowe blasted California and Los Angeles saying it’s “criminal” what the state and city have done to the entertainment industry with their overweening rules and extreme costs and taxes.
During the episode, Scott brought up how Lowe had filmed his game show, The Floor, at Ardmore Studios in Bray, Ireland.
Lowe explained that it is “cheaper to bring a hundred American people to Ireland than to walk across the lot at Fox, right past the soundstages and do it there.”
Scott replied that it is “crazy” and asked Lowe if they were shooting Parks and Recreation today if they’d have moved the production to the country of Budapest. Lowe replied, “100 percent we would be.”
“It’s so weird how nothing shoots in Los Angeles,” Scott said.
“Nothing,” Lowe replied. “I had my next show already done,…