Shooting This is Us on location in California – for Pennsylvania – Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore with Mackenzie Hancsicsak, Parker Bates and Lonnie Chavis
ice Arrington. “There are several locations here that regularly double as Miami — or as a generic beach-city location — including Main Street on Huntington Beach, which is good for beach-front restaurants. Then there are hotels such as the Hilton Waterfront and the Hyatt Regency that have a Miami look. We can even do the classic Miami Art Deco look on some streets in the county. And we can do East Coast looks too. For example, the County Courthouse in Santa Ana doubled as the Harvard University Law School in Legally Blond — they just had to dress the palm trees as pine trees.
The interior of the same building was also used for the trial scenes in Lindbergh, doubling for a New Jersey courthouse. And for American Sniper, Seal Beach doubled as Oceanside.” But Arrington’s favorite location is the huge blimp hangar in Tustin: “It’s 1,000-feet long and 300-feet high and it was used in Pearl Harbor, as well as Star Trek one and two.” The county has also hosted Ocean’s Eleven and Planet of the Apes. Recently, George Clooney’s new feature film Suburbicon filmed in Fullerton, which has wide classic streets that can double for Fifties suburbia.”
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