After being hired to work as the production designer on the new Paramount+ mob-themed series “Tulsa King” starring Sylvester Stallone in his first-ever television series project, Todd Jeffery quickly realized that — like the Brooklyn-born gangster played by Stallone — he was about to work in a state (Oklahoma) that he had never before visited. In the freshman series that was renewed for a second season, Stallone portrays Dwight Manfredi, a Mafia capo who is released from prison after serving a 25-year sentence and finds himself unceremoniously exiled to Tulsa, Ok to set up shop and build a new base of criminal operations. He’s the ultimate fish out of water. And so was Jeffery, a native of Northern California. Watch the exclusive video interview above.
No sooner had Jeffery landed in the state than he was scouting locations in Oklahoma City and Tulsa a few hours up the road. The unpredictable...
No sooner had Jeffery landed in the state than he was scouting locations in Oklahoma City and Tulsa a few hours up the road. The unpredictable...
- 5/4/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Oklahoma is frequently depicted on screen as a peaceful place filled with scenic beauty, waving wheat fields and vast, bucolic plains. But the Paramount+ series “Tulsa King” captures a far grungier side of the Sooner State, and much of the credit for that goes to the show’s production designer, Todd Jeffery.
Created by Taylor Sheridan, “Tulsa King” stars Sylvester Stallone as Dwight Manfredi, a Mafia capo who’s banished to Tulsa, Okla., by his New York underworld family after serving a 25-year prison sentence. A fish out of water, the Brooklyn-born gangster wastes no time in organizing a new criminal empire made up of colorful Oklahomans.
Like Stallone’s character, Jeffery had never been to Oklahoma before working on the series, and the unpredictable climate caught him off guard at first. “The weather changed drastically from day to day, and sometimes you’d wake up and there would be...
Created by Taylor Sheridan, “Tulsa King” stars Sylvester Stallone as Dwight Manfredi, a Mafia capo who’s banished to Tulsa, Okla., by his New York underworld family after serving a 25-year prison sentence. A fish out of water, the Brooklyn-born gangster wastes no time in organizing a new criminal empire made up of colorful Oklahomans.
Like Stallone’s character, Jeffery had never been to Oklahoma before working on the series, and the unpredictable climate caught him off guard at first. “The weather changed drastically from day to day, and sometimes you’d wake up and there would be...
- 3/20/2023
- by Matthew Chernov
- Variety Film + TV
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