Director Benh Zeitlin has said in interviews that Isle de Jean Charles was the geographic inspiration for the setting of "The Bathtub", the fictional island depicted in Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Director Benh Zeitlin and his crew worked out of an abandoned gas station in town, and built the film's fictional town—the "Bathtub"—by hand with found artifacts and rusted-out equipment from the surrounding area.
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