Working from descriptions provided by screenwriter Tony Gilroy, costume designer Carlos Rosario created specific looks for each key character, and learned about the period by watching old documentaries about Beirut. But the most valuable source of inspiration came from a Lebanese woman he met in Morocco during pre-production. "She grew up in Lebanon, left when the civil war started in '75, then went back to Lebanon in the early '80s, which exactly matched the time-line of our project," Rosario said. "She got so excited about helping us that she texted her friends in Beirut and they emailed all these images that enabled me to assemble a collection of authentic pictures of people living in Beirut in the early '70s and early '80s. That helped tremendously."

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