Imposing himself on Renfro at an infamous power-lunch spot, Bowfinger audaciously manages to show the power broker his script.

"It happens to me, " Martin admits. "People will see me in a restaurant and approach me with their script. I've been on the other side, too. I've been the kid with the script. You have to be so aggressive to make it in show business, or lucky. Bowfinger has to bluff his way in. And that's what he does. He does it not only on his own behalf, but for the sake of his other crew members who are waiting, hoping, praying back at the office."

Principal photography on Bowfinger began in June, 1998, and was shot entirely in and around Los Angeles. Almost all of the sequences took place in practical locations with the cast and crew often moving to different sites daily.

Scouting locations to fit the needs of 90 percent of the script fell squarely on the shoulders of DeGovia and Key Locations Manager Molly Allen and Locations Manager Lisa Blok-Linson. They were able to secure a plethora of sites in Long Beach, Westwood, Pasadena, Santa Monica and Los Angeles proper. From Le Dome restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, a famous lunch spot where many Hollywood deals have been made and broken, to Griffith Observatory, where the third act of the film reaches its wacky close, the production moved continuously and smoothly thanks to Allen and Blok-Linson's efficiency.