Hudson County Cop Bought 'Kill Room' Film Director's Childhood Home In Bergen County

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — Lyndhurst native Nicol Paone recently directed Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson in "The Kill Room," which premieres this weekend. And after filming in both Hudson and Bergen counties, she's got stories to tell.

In an interview with NJArts this week, Paone talked about growing up in Bergen County and what it was like to film in Hoboken (she also filmed in Jersey City and Lyndhurst).

Among the more interesting stories, she said that on breaks from filming at Hoboken's Field Colony, an art gallery, she chatted with the police protecting the area. She said she told an officer that she'd grown up in Lyndhurst, and he said he'd just bought a house there. Turned out he'd bought her childhood home.

Paone filmed the suspenseful comedy in spring of 2022, in that sweet spot between COVID lockdowns and the WGA writer's strike. See photos of the filming in Hoboken here.

She said that the mayors of Jersey City, Rutherford, and Lyndhurst will attend her premiere party this weekend

The public can see the movie too. It will debut Thursday. See showtimes through the weekend here.

Read more of Paone's interview with NJArts.net here.