 Austin filming for the movie occurred in May/June of 2000. Many  local 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  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 NYC 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, Bullock did some of her own stunt driving in several  takes, skills she had learned while making _Speed (1994)_ (qv). The  scenes were filmed on location at the Starbucks located at One  American Center on 6th and Congress. The whole Starbucks scene was  filmed over an entire day before wrapping around 6