The gym at Lyon Magnet Elementary School in Waukegan was the set for some of the scenes in “Ghostlight” opening Friday at the Wayfarer Theater in Highland Park. Working on a movie set is not in the job description for Trinidad Gonzalez, the head custodian at Lyon Magnet Elementary School in Waukegan, but it became part of his daily routine for four days in October.
This Highland Park house was used as the home of a family in “Ghostlight” which opens Friday at the Wayfarer Theater in Highland Park. A majority of the movie was shot in Waukegan. “He knew where everything was, and got it ready for us,” O’Sullivan said. “He stumbles into a community theater production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and is forced to confront circumstances of his own life,” O’Sullivan said. “There’s a big emotional arc he goes through.”
“It was a joy working with my wife and daughter,” Kupferer said. “We brought our chemistry as father and daughter with us. We didn’t have to learn it.” “People really opened their doors to us,” Thompson said. “When we needed a theater, he found us one. When we needed a bar, he talked to the owner of La Opera. The Waukegan community really opened up to us.”