Pittsburgh-filmed ‘Sweet Girl’ arrives on Netflix this week

The filmed-in-Pittsburgh Netflix movie “Sweet Girl” will be arriving on Netflix this Friday.

The R-rated movie, filmed in late 2019 in the Pittsburgh area, stars Jason Momoa and involves several iconic Pittsburgh locations.

Perhaps it would have been better not to ask about the special effects work in an early scene in which his character, Ray Cooper, dives off the roof of PNC Park into the Allegheny River, according to our partners at The Trib.

“I jumped off PNC Park, bro!” Momoa jokingly insisted earlier this month in a Zoom interview from London where he’s filming “Aquaman 2.” “I’m Aquaman, bro, you don’t think I can jump off PNC Park and jump in the water?”

Alas, “Sweet Girl” director Brian Andrew Mendoza confirmed the wide shot of the diving scene was created using computer-generated imagery.

“We built a replica of the rooftop on our stage and Jason jumped off that and then for the wider angle shot, that’s obviously CGI,” Mendoza said.

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