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Alyson Hanniganwasn’t aware her California home was a popular filming location until after she moved in — but she decided to embrace it for one special occasion.
TheHow I Met Your Motheralum revealed during an appearance on SiriusXM’sThe Michelle Collins Showon Thursday that she let theThis Is Uscast film theirsixth and final seasonat her family home after rejecting countless other inquiries about using the property as a set.
“The people we bought our house from, I don’t know if they ever lived here. I think they just rented it out for film shoots. I think my house’s resume is longer than mine,” she joked.
Hannigan shares the home with her husband and fellow actor Alexis Denisof and their daughters Satyana Marie, 12, and Keeva Jane, 9.
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“When we moved in we were like, ‘We will never do that, we know what productions do to locations’ and all that. I mean, I would say at least twice a month, get requests because the house is just known,” she said of the property she bought in 2018.
This Is Usbroke the pattern for an unexpected reason: Hannigan discovered the director was her neighbor! So they made an exception to lend their house to production “for that show cause it’s so good,” adding the crew was “very respectful.”
“We got a staycation on them,” she shared.
The cast of This Is Us.Maarten de Boer/NBCUniversal
The family also got a mini restoration courtesy of the ABC drama.
“Not only did they give us our house back in wonderful shape, they fixed things that I had damaged,” the actress revealed, adding that they touched up paint, offered to clean up where one of her daughters left a handprint on the wall, and more.
TheOutrageous Pumpkinshost continued, “They fixed damage that I had done. We’ve got a lot of wood or whatever [and] you can’t tape anything to it or it takes some of the stain off and I didn’t know that on my first Halloween and I taped to this beautiful door. I forever see like little tape marks. No, they fixed that too! I was like ‘You guys!'”
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The crew began filming on September 9, starMandy Mooreshared on Twitteralongside a photo withMilo Ventimiglia.
Hannigan’s home had previously been used to film the thrillerFracturestarringAnthony Hopkins,Ryan GoslingandRosamund Pike; an episode of Marvel’sAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D; and a Hyundai 2016Super Bowl commercialfeaturingKevin Hart, according toDailyMail.
source: people.com
