To be gutted a TV series is being filmed at our very secret local beauty spot

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It’s going to be ruined 😠

Tom Cruise was filming where I live this week, now people are going to flock here, I tell you!

Ah wait, it's Birmingham... there's already quite a few people here.

Not that secret then is it

Tom Hardy was filming in Barry Island a couple of weeks ago. Caused quite a stir down here it did.

@KingsHeathen

Tom Cruise was filming where I live this week, now people are going to flock here, I tell you!

Ah wait, it's Birmingham... there's already quite a few people here.

Did you see that his car got stolen? Good old Birmingham, eh!

They used my street for a Victorian slum in a Catherine Cookson film once! They put mud on the road to hide the tarmac and built a fake house at the end to hide the obviously modern buildings beyond, but pretty much left the rest as it was.

A few years ago, I watched a documentary about the making of "The French Lieutenant's Woman". It was fascinating. They disguised the tarmac roads by pouring liquid latex onto earth and straw, letting it set to make sheets and then laying it on the roads and trimming it like carpet. They had all sorts of clever ways of disguising streetlamps and stuff, and hid parking signs with trompe l'oeil panels painted to look like the stone or brick of the walls they were attached to.

When BT filmed an advert in my town, they had Kevin Bacon entering one pub from the street and arriving in the bar of a completely different pub, which led to some mirth among the locals.

We were walking around the wood that is behind Derwent Water in the Lake District a few years ago , and found lots of it a no go area with security . Got chatting to one of them and it was being filmed for one of the Star Wars films . Sadly no stars as it was just special effects .

Holla, the Devil's Pulpit? That would have been my second guess.
People need to learn to respect the dangers of these kind of places and go prepared. It is not a gentle stroll in the country and shouldn't be approached as such.

They've used Glasgow City centre a lot recently for films, my husband was gutted we were on holiday in Wales last month when they were filming scenes for the new Indiana Jones film, he would loved to have seen the set all the shops with American signs etc. My son who works there dud get sone pictures if Indiana Jones stunt double on a horse for him though! They are getting ready to film scenes for Batgirl now, apparently one if the reasons is Glasgow has a grid street layout similar to New York.

It's probably not as big of a secret as you think, these places never are.

TV has to be filmed somewhere, it's always going to be someone's beauty spot and inconvenience someone. If you have a problem with this you should probably stop watching TV or film unless it's shot in a studio.

I'm sure you'll get over it! It doesn't belong to you.. not like they're filming in your garden! Lucky if that's all you have to worry about!!

We've had a few visits by Sex Education filming.
I'm yet to actually see Gillian yet though.
I'm still hopeful.

If you have to park and then walk in I wouldn’t worry too much. Evidence from some of the amazing places I’ve been to suggests a lot of people can’t be bothered unless the car park is next door! I did see some lovely waterfalls in Canada with no one else there!

Wanting to keep a place just for 'locals' is a pretty limiting way to live, do you never visit anywhere op?

@poorbuthappy

We've had a few visits by Sex Education filming. I'm yet to actually see Gillian yet though. I'm still hopeful.

We had Aimee Lou Wood from sex education in our local pub the other month. Must have a small bladder as she was in and out of the toilet cubicle a lot...

Film crews need to eat and probably stay over in local hotels/ b&bs, isn’t the boost to the local economy a good thing? The same would be true if tourists come to visit and stop for lunch or to fill up the car.

Get over yourself OP.

Seen a few things being filmed in George Square in Glasgow.

Was watching the eurovision film on Netflix and found it highly amusing they moved the hydro to Edinburgh!

There was a Channel 4 drama being filmed at the Town Hall at the bottom of our road not so long ago.

There is always something for TV/Films going on in and around our city, I saw scenes from The Crown being filmed just a few weeks before lockdown started last year.

Yeah it must be so annoying when life goes on and you're not at the centre of it OP

@Onairjunkie

My house has been used as a filming location for a couple of crime dramas. I absolutely love having them all here, and it pays really bloody well. Not only that, they’re so careful they don’t damage anything and where they empty the rooms, they give it the clean of its life.

I imagine you don’t live in a bog standard three bed semi?

It's really weird they have build a fake house thing here and it's meant to look like the US. I don't get it

Happens a lot. The church in Kingsman is the military church in Deepcut. The film company remarked the car park with bigger slots and disabled spaces marked “Cripples”. The village ground to a halt for weeks.

A couple of years ago they used a street on a Lancashire town that I drive near twice a week to look like a rough estate in Belfast in the 80's I think it was. They had a burned out vehicle as a prop. I didn't realise that us was a prop and thought the estate was rougher than I remembered from growing up round there.
I can assure you the town hasn't had an influx of visitors!!

@GallowwayGirl88

Film crews need to eat and probably stay over in local hotels/ b&bs, isn’t the boost to the local economy a good thing? The same would be true if tourists come to visit and stop for lunch or to fill up the car.

Get over yourself OP.

True. My son works a part time job and they have been very looked after by lots of orders and generous tips from people working on the film.

People really go to Culloden to lay wreaths for Jamie??? Good grief.

It's really not going to be ruined. Dont forget that many people watching it will have been to, or even currently live in more beautiful places that you don't know of. That's those who even bother to note the location at all. People will forget about it all over again in a short space of time. Anyway, no locality, or village is anyone's to "own".

@sonjadog

People really go to Culloden to lay wreaths for Jamie??? Good grief.

They do indeed...