Woodland gets a little ‘Big Love’
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Jeanne Tripplehorn, one of the stars of the HBO series “Big Love,” stands next to a prop car at Woodland’s County Fair Mall, where the crew set up camp Saturday. The show will be filming in Yolo and surrounding counties for the next week. (Matthew Henderson/Daily Democrat)
The cast and crew of the HBO series “Big Love” descended on Woodland on Saturday, part of a weeklong filming stint that will take them all over Yolo and neighboring counties, on-set sources said.
The Emmy-nominated series, which is entering its third season, centers around a modern polygamist family trying to live under the radar in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah.
The show stars Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin - all of whom were on hand Saturday at Woodland’s County Fair Mall, where the crew had set up “base camp.”
The show’s main set is located in Santa Clarita, northwest of downtown Los Angeles, but cast and crew arrived in Woodland Thursday night as part of a plot line that involves a family
The cast and crew of the HBO series “Big Love” leaves Woodland’s County Fair Mall to shoot a scene on State Route 113 Saturday. The show will be filming in Yolo and surrounding counties for another week, as part of a road-trip plot line, on-set sources said. (Matthew Henderson/Democrat)
road trip retracing the steps of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism, according to Wayne Wall, the owner of Golden Star Security in Cameron Park. Wall’s company was hired to provide security while “Big Love” was in town filming, a process he expected to last through Aug. 15.
Most of the filming Saturday took place on Interstate 5 and Highway 113, Wall said. The crew simulated driving scenes by mounting the characters’ cars on flat-bed trucks surrounded by lighting equipment and cameras; the moving trucks give the appearance that the prop cars are actually being driven.
The crew started filming Friday in Coloma, in El Dorado County, best known as the site where James Marshall first discovered gold in California, Wall said.
Additional scenes will be shot over the coming week in Grasslands Regional Park in Davis, and in various parts of Old Sacramento, he said.
“Big Love” production staff would not offer any information about the filming schedule or plot details, saying it was against HBO policy.
Season 3 of the show, which counts Tom Hanks among its executive producers, is scheduled to kick off in January, according to the online movie and television database IMDB.com.
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