Ninety-percent of "Going Down" takes place in an elevator, so filming in an actual elevator over several days wasn't an option. We had to be creative and what sparked my creativity was a TV movie I'd acted in called "Don't Look Behind You" for Fox Family Channel. During one of the action scenes, I am held at gunpoint in an elevator, and I remember that scene was shot in a set elevator - with moving doors physically opened and closed by the crew.

With this memory in mind, we approached Production Designer Bobby Vanonen to build an elevator in a studio and he did. We could move walls, lights on the elevator console worked, it was perfect. The only thing we couldn't do was take the elevator up and down. It allowed us to light it the way we wanted, spend as much time as we needed to get the shots, and the performances proved it was the right choice.