Austin filming for the movie occurred in May and June of 2000. Many Austin locations were used in the film, such as the Dog and Duck Pub (where Gracie eats ice cream), and the Cue Lounge (featured in the botched mission, at the beginning of the film) among others. The Starbucks scene, was shot in the middle of downtown Austin, just a few blocks from the Texas State Capital. To make the Austin streets appear more "New York like", brown plastic bags of fake trash were put around the buildings, while fake New York City taxi cabs cruised the streets. Although a stunt driver was used, while filming shots where Gracie tears across the intersection and parks wildly in front of the Starbucks, Sandra Bullock did some of her own stunt driving in several takes, skills she had learned while making Speed (1994). The scenes were filmed on-location at the Starbucks, located at One American Center at 6th Street and Congress Avenue. The whole Starbucks scene was filmed over an entire day, before wrapping around 6 to 7 p.m. The car scene alone, took five to seven takes, and most of the afternoon, in the hot summer sun. To combat the heat, an assistant held an umbrella over Bullock as she got in and out of the car between shots. The interior scene only took a few hours in the late afternoon and early evening to shoot.

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