Where was tonight's This Is Us filmed?
Paramount Studios, CA, USA.
Filming locations
In addition to filming in Los Angeles, the series shot a few scenes on location in New York City, Philadelphia, and one in Memphis.
"In that shot [right before the scene with young Randall and Jack], older Randall is indicative of, obviously, the grown children or a child who has fully grown, and Milo in that moment [in the final scene] is representing a parent who's taking in his entire family," Fogelman says.
Sophie and Kevin's “special booth”
Sophie and Kevin's sentimental booth (seen in Season 1, Episode 14) is located inside Downtown LA's historic Nickel Diner, whose transportive '40s-era interior inspires nostalgic feelings of a different sort.
The backdrop was the Allegreto Vineyard Resort, a high-end, European-inspired hotel in Paso Robles complete with a restaurant, spa and wine tasting room.
But “This Is Us” has also shot in Vietnam, and will return to the country for more intensive production later this month. Not only will the show focus on the story of Jack and Nicky during war, but a present-day story also will follow Kevin (Justin Hartley) as he retraces his father's story.
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Although the Pearsons' home is supposed to be in Alpine, New Jersey – with Randall working in New York – it was in California that the production found the family home.
Allegretto Vineyard Resort off Highway 46 East has been transformed into a TV set. “Pretty exciting,” said Susan Terry of Paso Robles. We went to the property to speak with the manager but learned they signed nondisclosure agreements.
The Pearson Cabin, also known as Toklat Ranger Station No. 4, is a log shelter in the National Park Service Rustic style in Denali National Park in Alaska. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The end of the series finale of the hit time-warping multigenerational family drama saw Rebecca (Mandy Moore), who was finishing her luxury train ride into the afterlife, take a final rest on the bed in the caboose, turn over, and… see the face of husband Jack (Milo Ventimiglia), who'd died decades earlier.
How old are the Big 3 when Rebecca dies?
Rebecca dies, aged 82/83. The Pearsons gather to have a funeral for Rebecca. Deja is approximately 28, Tess 25, and Annie 22/23. Jack Damon is approximately 14, Hailey 12.
When given a choice between saving the world and saving the person dearest to him, Joel chooses to save Ellie, killing everyone in the hospital in the process. It's a devastating sequence. After all, Joel is destroying the only shot the world may have at a cure.
In 1987, future filmmaker Jordan Peele was so inspired by 1987's The Lost Boys that he promised himself he would film a movie in the Santa Cruz area one day. More than three decades later Peele's Us is set to debut. Santa Cruz serves as a classic beach setting for a vacationing family in the movie.
While the events of the show take place in Pittsburgh and around the mid-Atlantic, it's actually filmed almost entirely in the Los Angeles area, from San Pedro (where you'll find the bar where the big three were conceived) to Malibu (the location of Kevin's rehab center).
(It's a fictional show, just like Philly having a 12th District, we only have 10) The 12th District, where Randall lives, seems to be the Spring Garden area as that is where they filmed on Sunday, primarily in the 2000 block of Spring Garden.
The Goring is a luxury hotel in London that Kate Middleton stayed in the night before her royal wedding. The Goring is a five-star luxury hotel in Belgravia, London, that has a long-standing connection to royalty.
Mandy Moore was 38 weeks pregnant while filming the Tuesday, February 23, episode of This Is Us.
In the end, Kevin does turn out pretty great. He and Sophie get married and move to the cabin to take care of Rebecca in her final decade.
Yes, Stallone is playing Stallone, and yes, this is a typical guest star intro where the preexisting characters stand in for the stupefied, starstruck audience (not to mention how they mimic the “surprise” of seeing Stallone onscreen). But they had fun, he looked good, and ground was laid for future sentimentality.
The Deer Hunter not only won the Academy Award for Best Picture but was one of the first movies to tackle the Vietnam War. It was released three years after the Vietnam War ended.
Where in NJ does This Is Us take place?
Beth and Randall's family live in Bergen County
Randall lives with his wife, Beth, and their two daughters in a home in the affluent Bergen County town of Alpine. One episode showed the back of a postcard that was sent to Beth. Eagle-eyed fans noticed the address: 5090 Anderson Ave., Alpine, NJ, 07624.
If this home belonging to actress Alyson Hannigan looks familiar, it's because it doubles the custom-built family home belonging to Kevin Pearson in the final seasons of This Is Us. Alyson sold the Encino, Calif., home for $16 million and it's a 7,605-square-foot masterpiece.
Nicky and wife Edie moved into the cabin while Rebecca and Miguel lived up in the big house with a nurse's aide. After Miguel's death — and on the heels of his TV show ending — Kevin and his family moved to Pennsylvania so he could live with Rebecca.
The actor's has been featured in several TV shows and films. Not only is the dream house that Kevin Pearson built on NBC's This Is Us very real, but it actually belongs to actor Alyson Hannigan.
All that said, don't go looking for the Pearson cabin in the East Coast mountain ranges IRL. According to LA Curbed, which has a rundown of all the on-site filming locations This Is Us uses, Kelly Gulch in Canyon Boulevard, Los Angeles, stands in for the Poconos on the series.
Bethel Park
By the end of the first episode it is clear that the Pearsons lived in Pittsburgh, but later on in the season we learn exactly where they grew up. First mentioned by 10-year old Randall, the family lives in the Bethel Park suburb, just seven miles south of downtown Pittsburgh.
Toby loses the weight and takes a high-power tech job in San Francisco while Kate stays behind in Los Angeles to care for the kids. The tension comes to a head in the final season. “I am sorry that I like putting on a suit to go to work and Jack Pearson hated it.
The scene, set around 2043, revealed that Kate is very much alive in the future and that, following the meet-cute encounter in the coffee shop, in which Toby and Laura exchange parfait cracks, they become a couple that lasts.
Kate and Toby live in Los Angeles, Kevin formerly lived in LA (where he worked on The Manny) and currently lives in New York City, Randall and Beth live in New Jersey, and it seems like Rebecca and Miguel live in either New Jersey or upstate New York.
Fans found this out in Season 6, Episode 17 (the show's penultimate episode). In it, the Pearson extended family has all gathered to say goodbye to Rebecca (Mandy Moore), and while they're waiting, Deja tells Randall that she's pregnant — but the father's identity is a mystery.
Are Kate and Kevin adopted in This Is Us?
Randall Pearson
Randall is the adopted son of Jack and Rebecca, the adopted brother of twins Kevin and Kate, and the biological son of William Hill. Shortly after he was born, Randall was left anonymously on the steps of a fire station by his heroin-addicted father.
Hannigan — who bought the property for $7.95 million with her husband, Alexis Denisof, in 2016 — will likely now move to Santa Monica, where the pair reportedly purchased a new home last month, according to TMZ.
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