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The Chart-Topping Show\u00a0<\/b>Finds the Beauty
\nof Community\u00a0<\/b>in Southern British Columbia\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h4>\n
by Rachel Llewellyn<\/b><\/h5>\n
All photos courtesy of\u00a0 <\/span>Netflix, unless otherwise noted<\/h5>\n
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An hour north of Vancouver, intrepid location manager Robert \u201cFluffy\u201d Millar\/LMGI bushwhacked through dense coastal forest flanking the upper Cheakamus River, looking for the next astonishing backdrop for Netflix\u2019s surprise hit series, Virgin River<\/em>. \u201cI spent the day out there trying to chase down certain GPS coordinates with my camera strapped around my neck and a phone in my pocket,\u201d says Millar. \u201cIf I can get somewhere to get an amazing shot, then I\u2019m like, \u2018production can get here, too!\u2019 That was always my idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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VIRGIN RIVER – NETFLIX (c) 2020<\/p><\/div>\n

Adapted from Robyn Carr\u2019s award-winning 22-book series, the show follows Mel, a Los Angeles nurse practitioner played by Alexandra Breckenridge. She leaves her tragic past behind to set up a small practice in an idyllic Northern California town that resembles a Thomas Kincaid painting, Mayberry and Cicely, Alaska, from Northern Exposure<\/em>, all rolled into one. Here she finds love with bar owner Martin Henderson as Jack. This surreal, green-carpeted paradise is found in Canada\u2019s most western province, British Columbia.<\/p>\n

Virgin River<\/em>\u2019s atmospheric forest dreamscape is a cleverly pieced-together patchwork of postcard-perfect shots. When Millar emerged from the undergrowth at House Rock, a kayak put-in at the lip of a rowdy class four rapid\u2014he knew that in spite of the logistical challenge, he\u2019d found the spot for a dramatic confrontation between Jack and Mel that production would not be able to resist. \u201cOh, compromises will be made to get them here!\u201d he mused.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Robert \u201cFluffy\u201d Millar\/LMGI<\/p><\/div>\n

On Vancouver\u2019s mountainous coast, the landscape is as ripe and evocative as the show itself: Its glacier-scraped granite cliffs, heaved up by earthquakes and volcanoes and veined by miles of lush green waterways, are a breathtaking scrim for the wholesome romantic drama stealing hearts around the globe. Clotted with log jams, frothing rapids and depending on the season, chinook salmon and steelhead trout, the Cheakamus flows through more than 40 miles of mossy granite swaddled in Douglas fir, hemlock and cedars to feed the broader Squamish River, which winds behind Jack\u2019s Bar in the fictional town of Virgin River before draining into the Pacific at the head of the Howe Sound a few miles to the south\u2014all within Indigenous Squamish Nation territory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A film entertainment hub with a robust production infrastructure and a growing skyline, where several shows are being filmed at once, Southern British Columbia is a sprawling, complex social ecosystem built at the intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and thriving outdoor recreation and film industries. And as Virgin River<\/i> goes full steam ahead filming Season 5 after Season 4\u2019s record-breaking June debut, Vancouver native Millar and a homegrown crew say the glue that holds the region\u2019s collective interests together is the same ingredient behind the show\u2019s remarkable production story and the secret to its incredible success: kindness and community.<\/p>\n

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The WaterShed Grill, Brackendale as \u201cJack\u2019s Bar\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Building a World<\/b><\/p>\n

Millar was brought on to the series in its second season by Vancouver-based Hans Dayal\/LMGI, who assumed the role of production manager after working as the show\u2019s location manager on Season 1. He had zeroed in on the small town of Squamish, just 30 miles north of Vancouver, to provide the contours for the fictional town of Virgin River. Working with production designer Tony Devenyi, showrunner Sue Tenney and producer Ian Hay, he helped map out the town and find recurring locations like Mel\u2019s cabin, the charmingly traditional open-plan Murdo Park Caretaker\u2019s Cabin in North Vancouver, expertly designed and built out by Devenyi and set decorator Mecca Thornhill. Dayal also secured Hope\u2019s colorful and historic 1920\u2019s bungalow and doc\u2019s practice, a stately three-story late Victorian mansion in New Westminster. Jack\u2019s man-cave country bar is a real-life riverside restaurant in Brackendale called The WaterShed Grill that was built by the sister of Squamish Nation Chief Bill Williams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dayal says the creators aimed to show a more personalized, mature side of the Vancouver area, which is popular real estate for action-packed sci-fi movies and young adult superhero shows like The X-Men, Supernatural, The Flash, Arrow<\/i> and Smallville<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Millar swung into the show\u2019s stride quickly, catching up on the dailies from Season 1 and Dayal\u2019s scouting photos and driving around to filming spots to introduce himself. \u201cIt was really nice taking over the show and reaching out to the locations from Season 1 and they all said, \u2018I\u2019m so happy you guys are back, it was wonderful, and your crew is so amazing!\u2019 and I thought, \u2018This is great! I\u2019m already coming into an established family that\u2019s respected and everybody loves it.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Road to Virgin River<\/b><\/p>\n

Millar\u2019s early interests put him behind a drum kit instead of a camera. A metal musician and Army Cadets drummer, he considered a military drumming career but moved to Vancouver to become a rock star instead. Working a security gig at Vancouver Film School to pay the bills also earned him free cinematography and editing classes, and he instantly clicked with the controlled mayhem and camaraderie of production. It\u2019s no wonder that Millar uses tactical terms to describe his job: a film shoot is a \u201ccampaign\u201d or a \u201cfield exercise,\u201d accidental scene walk-ons are \u201ccivilians.\u201d As a PA, his on-set callouts were closer to a drill sergeant\u2019s bawl.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt reminds me of a military unit coming in to do a task. Every department has its own choreography, but everybody is synchronized to get to one goal. Everybody is moving forward to the pointy end of the stick for the director\u2019s vision, and I just love the organized chaos.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Millar got a few gigs from school connections and slept overnight in a Subway restaurant booth to get to his first union job: as location production assistant on the 2000 film Screwed<\/i>, starring Norm MacDonald, Dave Chappelle, Danny DeVito and Sarah Silverman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He applied his Army Cadets training and boundless curiosity to developing cold-weather location chops on shows like Underworld: Evolution<\/i> with Kate Beckinsale, and A Dog\u2019s Way Home<\/i> with Ashley Judd in Squamish, where he worked with the support team on Ice Road Truckers<\/i> and learned how to transport gear and mobile shelters using snowcats. \u201cWe\u2019d be on the mountain in the dark in 30 feet of snow with snowcats and snowmobiles\u2014it was a blast,\u201d Millar recalls. \u201cI really got geared into doing critical site logistics.\u201d<\/p>\n

He developed a well-rounded ALM career on hit projects like Riverdale<\/i> and the Fifty Shades<\/i> movie trilogy, and when he was approached in the summer of 2019 by Hans Dayal to fill his spot as location manager, Millar was ready.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Devenyi says that Millar is a good match for the show\u2019s emotional quotient. \u201cRobert approaches the scripts like an actor does: What is the essence of the character, what is the essence of the location? They\u2019re not just looking at if there\u2019s parking nearby or if this is a cheap location. If it\u2019s the top of a hill or 100 miles into the bush, he\u2019s always going that extra mile and getting into the character\u2014he\u2019s really tireless in finding the right thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe producers wanted it to be a little bit more textural than your standard romantic drama,\u201d says Dayal. \u201cIt was a great chance to build the Virgin River<\/i> world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alexandra Breckenridge as Mel Monroe and
Tim Matheson as Doc Mullins in front of Mel\u2019s cabin<\/p><\/div>\n

It Takes a Team<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe creative team is always open and receptive to new and even unconventional ideas about a scene and its setting,\u201d says Millar. He feels that the secret to the show\u2019s astonishing production value is having a mostly local team who knows the area, loves the outdoors and brings its own experience to bear on anchoring the action against storybook-beautiful backgrounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving directors, producers and a production designer that are familiar with the region really adds more sets of \u2018eyes\u2019 that help speed up the location selection process, even in advance of actual physical scouting,\u201d he says. \u201cThe North Shore was Ian Hay\u2019s backyard growing up. Tony knows these areas as well because he\u2019s designed some of the amazing shows\u2014and then to have Stargate<\/i> series directors Martin Wood and Andy Mikita, Vikings: Valhalla<\/i> director Monika Mitchell\u2014all these great directors are from Vancouver.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo by Robert \u201cFluffy\u201d Millar\/LMGI<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI knew right away that nature was going to be a character in the show,\u201d adds Devenyi. \u201cIt\u2019s a universal thing and it\u2019s truly spectacular here in BC, and clearly people around the world in other beautiful places are drawn to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been mountain biking on the trails and hiking and finding littler corners here for years,\u201d says Hay. \u201cI\u2019ve grown up here and there are times we literally say, \u2018We went on a dog walk, or my wife goes to this waterfall\u2014do you guys know about it?\u2019 There are by-the-way places, small rivers and waterfalls and mountains that we know about, so it\u2019s a lot easier. We don\u2019t have to have huge dollars to show the beauty of our mainland.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the amazing transition shots between scenes in Virgin River<\/i> are shot by our drone team, Action Aerials,\u201d Millar adds. \u201cRob Wood is the aerial camera guy. He and his partner capture shots of mountains, lakes and rivers all across BC.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple months into filming Season 2, just before Thanksgiving 2019, Season 1 was released to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim. \u201cIt was gangbusters, the press lost their minds,\u201d recalls Millar. \u201cWe were number one on Netflix for so long and I was looking around at my team going, \u2018What have we hitched our wagon onto now?\u2019 It was awesome!<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd speaking about the \u201cLocation Team\u201d experience itself\u2014it is one of THE most collaborative groups I\u2019ve had the honour of working with. They really are self-powered perpetual motion machines. I am always in awe of what they accomplish in such a short time frame across many kilometers of real estate. I am incredibly appreciative of their energy and commitment and grateful to be a part of this amazing team!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Riverway Golf Facility, Burnaby<\/p><\/div>\n

As season after season was greenlit by Netflix, Millar and his team riffed on the location range, introducing viewers to natural features and buildings as grand and striking as the storyline: Charmaine\u2019s baby shower at a stunning golf resort, Paige\u2019s bakery truck at the panoramic Cleveland Dam, Mel jogging along the taffy-pull arc of the Lynn Canyon suspension bridge, a romantic moment between Brie and Brady in front of a restored art deco theater, Preacher and Paige\u2019s intimate walk in the Capilano River Regional Park, Mel\u2019s pregnancy revelation atop the breathtaking Cypress Mountain, the soaring granite apron of the Stawamus Chief Mountain, and establishing shots of sweeping water features like the 230-foot Brandywine Falls near Whistler.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Virgin River<\/i>\u2019s writing and production is geared toward widening the genre\u2019s traditional fanbase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s timeless, ageless,\u201d says Dayal. \u201cEven though it\u2019s contemporary, it\u2019s its own state.\u201d There\u2019s a strong community ethic, too: Instead of earbuds and iPads, there\u2019s coffee klatches, craft circles, town-wide picnics and festivals, and impromptu gatherings at Jack\u2019s Bar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s none of that toxic animosity that seems to be prevalent out there in the media sphere now,\u201d observes Millar. \u201cVirgin River<\/i> provides a chance at hope that we could get a real world like that someday.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the darker themes of loss, trauma and danger seem bounded within an emotionally open framework of recovery and redemption. And love, while often fraught or frustrated, is always hopeful and unspoiled by cynicism. \u201cMel has a lot of tragedy in her life but she\u2019s not a tragic character,\u201d says Tenney. \u201cJack has issues in his background, but they don\u2019t define who he is. We love good drama.There\u2019s all sorts of stuff that we love to put our characters through but at the end of the day they rise above it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The COVID Challenge<\/b><\/p>\n

Season 3 began filming in August 2020 as soon as lockdowns were lifted in the thick of the COVID pandemic. \u201cI think we were the first English-speaking Netflix show to go to camera once the restrictions were released, so we were kind of developing the protocols as we went along,\u201d says Millar. \u201cNetflix actually has their own COVID-testing lab down the street from our studio. They knew all the private companies were going to get overwhelmed, so they went into conjunction with a local doctor and built the Netflix lab knowing that testing was going to be de rigeur<\/i> in the film industry.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The pandemic also gave Millar opportunities to encounter new tools that expanded the show\u2019s technical vistas. \u201cWe tested these cameras from Insta360 because the LMGI had Coffee Tuesdays during COVID on Zoom, where you\u2019d sign up and learn new things. One week was about technology, and I just fell in love with these cameras and what they can do.\u201d He and lead scout Sarah Whitlam took an Insta360 camera each, made full-circle images of select locations, then shared them on a digital library. They could also be used to produce remote, real-time 360-degree images for video conferences, effectively taking 40 people on a live tour of Lilly\u2019s farmhouse during a production meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And the camera\u2019s utility is evergreen beyond remote work, adds Millar. \u201cComing back for Season 4, we were a little more relaxed with COVID and we had new protocols, but we still use the camera to build our photo library, so it\u2019s great technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another logistical challenge in Season 3 came in the form of the Lumberjack Games, an axe-tossing, tree-sawing logger sports extravaganza filmed over seven days at the Grouse Mountain ski resort, vacant thanks to COVID. Already familiar with the spot from his key location production assistant work on American Pie Presents: The Book of Love<\/i>, Millar knew he could generate badly needed revenue for the resort while capturing incredible views. \u201cIt was such a joy working with Grant Wahl, the resort\u2019s director of operations, and their team, there\u2019s so much mutual gratitude because they got the income and we\u2019re getting these ridiculous amazing visuals.<\/p>\n

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L-R: Martin Henderson as Jack Sheridan;
Colin Lawrence as John \u201cPreacher\u201c Middleton<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI was taking a dirt bike up and down the back forest service roads to figure out how to get the trucks up there. Transport was leery about the 45-minute drive up and back, and the only other way is these two massive European-style James Bond gondolas.\u201d So, they moved the equipment to the peak in the empty gondolas, built tents for extras and gear, and waited for the completion of a week-long set build. Then over the long Thanksgiving weekend\u2014just before filming was to start\u2014a windstorm destroyed everything. The crew rallied, shot what had remained standing, and rebuilt what they could as they filmed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re on a mountain in the middle of October and it\u2019s getting close to ski season, so the weather is always going to be a factor when you\u2019re at elevation,\u201d says Millar. \u201cThe teams were such troopers up there, just phenomenal. Then two days to wrap, a snowstorm came and buried a bunch of our electrical gear and crushed our tents, thousands of dollars in damage.\u201d Millar feels that the resulting scenes of Jack and Mel hurtling through the spectacular landscape on a zipline made the extreme effort it took to shoot well worth it. He also hired Grouse Mountain staff to teach the cast the literal ropes and reached out to the producer of the actual lumberjack games who brought in a crew of real-life loggers to chainsaw, log-roll and speed climb in the background.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The show\u2019s narrative pace offers continuity challenges, too. Shooting a days-long storyline over five months in an area with profound seasonal changes means adjusting technically and logistically to melting snowlines, shedding deciduous trees and whip-fast weather shifts. \u201cWe\u2019re always trying to make December look like June,\u201d says Hay. \u201cWhen we did the cannabis camp for the first time, we were on location for three days and you need continuity, but the first day we showed up there was 3\u00bd inches of snow on the ground and we weren\u2019t expecting any. We thought that there\u2019s no way we would be able to keep that for three days because in Vancouver it usually rains by the next day, so it was a bit of a panic. But luckily, the weather gods were with us, and it stayed cold and there was no rain for three days and it all worked out.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tenney explains how they worked the surprise snow into the shot: \u201cWe figured out a way to make two areas. It makes sense that the pot farmers would be hiding out at a higher level and then grow level is lower, and the production value from that was amazing. I find if you lean into problems, you\u2019ll find a solution quicker and better. You have to be ready to move and pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Millar says driving and indoor shots, close angles that hide dead branches, utilizing the greens department\u2014and adding even more green in post-production\u2014also help camouflage the seasons and the passage of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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L-R: Lexa Doig as Paige Lassiter; Garfield Wilson as Zeke<\/p><\/div>\n

Backing up the shoot schedule for Season 5 solved the temporal problem but created another: public parks, trying to catch up on revenue lost during the pandemic, prohibited filming in the summer to keep the campgrounds open for tourists. \u201cWe did start six weeks earlier than last year so that we could actually capture more natural trees and greens longer, but the logistical caveat is we can\u2019t shoot any provincial parks in the summer,\u201d says Millar. \u201cSo, we have to search for more private forests and engage the Squamish Nation and Ministry of Forests.\u201d Other areas are closed due to fire season, when the danger posed by a stray spark in the warm, dry conditions is just too great.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Within these lean parameters, the creative team\u2019s strategy for Season 5 is ambitious: As character storylines culminate, an epic event will bring the town together\u2014which means incorporating more CGI, consolidating locations and finding new far-flung places to take the script. As the story blooms in the hands of new showrunner Patrick Sean Smith, location manager Fiona Crossley has come aboard to support Millar in developing the expanding narrative map.<\/p>\n

Building Relationships: Kindness and Community<\/b><\/p>\n

Virgin River<\/i> is filmed on an intricate system of municipal and provincial roads, public parks, private property and back country\u2014much of which is Indigenous land that\u2019s home to several tribal groups. \u201cThe Squamish Nation is one of the largest Indigenous First Nations groups in in BC and there\u2019s an immense amount of relationship between all the First Nations in BC and the lower mainland and the film industry,\u201d Millar says. \u201cWe work with all these different nations intimately to get permission to go on their lands. On the first day of filming 50 Shades of Grey, <\/i>we had a tribal elder come down and smudge the set and bless the set.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that we were on unceded territories and just wanted to pay our respect for the chance to live work and play here. It\u2019s great building that relationship and learning how to orchestrate and synchronize all the different entities at the same time has been a big fun learning curve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The terms of that relationship include responsible stewardship of the sweeping natural beauty Virgin River<\/i> captures on film. Canada manages its public lands and forests efficiently so that crews can find unspoiled views relatively close to civilization, allowing creative leads to utilize a small area for different purposes. \u201cWe would be somewhere in the middle of a forest that looked like you were deep in Yosemite and there was literally a Starbucks 15 minutes away,\u201d laughs Tenney. \u201cCanada has all these fantastic parks and areas, and they keep them so that they can be utilized by everybody in the community and in doing that they also help us highlight the beauty of Canada. I do take great pride in showing off how amazing British Columbia is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Millar is careful to curate eco-ethical work habits to keep BC beautiful. \u201cMake sure it\u2019s pristine when we leave, like camping: Leave no sign, take pictures, don\u2019t take stones and leave the place better than it was when you got there.\u201d He says Netflix is also encouraging production leads to explore sustainability initiatives like electric vehicles for cast transportation, plugging into a location\u2019s power grid to run equipment, and using new mobile electric generators in environmentally sensitive areas. \u201cIt\u2019s just one massive uninterrupted power supply the size of a small truck that\u2019s just pure power, and they\u2019ve got a green vinyl wrap so they almost disappear.\u201d Vancouver has also launched an initiative to build a citywide network of clean power kiosks near the most common parking and film locations and offers a deep discount on film permits if crews can eliminate the use of one diesel generator per day. The city of Squamish also enforces waste and wildlife policies and best practices established by the 2006 Reel Green Initiative, which helps the film industry reduce environmental impact.<\/p>\n

Another compounding factor for Millar is the sheer number of projects filming in the Vancouver area, with 50 to 60 shoots rotating through at a time. Millar maintains a friendly collaboration with his creative neighbors, coordinating their shoot calendars to prevent overlap and rotating parking lot access.<\/p>\n

The qualities of kindness and generosity that shade the story are a fictional echo of the production\u2019s genuine regard for the community it works with. At the House Rock kayaking site, the greens department discreetly covered a memorial wall with moss out of respect for those who lost their lives in the Cheakamus River, and the show made donations to outdoor search-and-rescue groups. Sustainability coordinator Diana Johnson donates leftover food to pet shelters and animal rescues, and the modestly budgeted production is known for giving big at food drives and community service events. Millar himself put together a Virgin River<\/i> gift basket complete with a cast-autographed Jack\u2019s Bar menu for a United Way benefit auction. \u201cThat is very telling how positive that crew is, how members deserve all their success,\u201d says Dayal. \u201cIt\u2019s just natural that good people are going to be rewarded with a successful show.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And fans seem to agree. With billions of viewership minutes that topped blockbusters like The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/i> and Stranger Things<\/i>, the popular response to Virgin River<\/i> has been phenomenal. The romance sizzles behind the scenes too, as Preacher, played by Colin Lawrence, finds new love with kung fu instructor Julia\u2014played by his real-life spouse, Lucia Walters. With its multigenerational love stories and few of the cast members under 25, the over-50 demographic is tuning in voraciously, too. Millar says the soapy storyline is popular in South America, with one Brazil-based Facebook fan page clocking a quarter million likes on a recent post announcing that Season 5 filming had begun. \u201cPeople like to watch beautiful people fall in love,\u201d agrees Devenyi. \u201cIt seems to strike a chord in that it just has the right amount of intrigue, along with the beauty of the show.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even exacting fans of the Robyn Carr novels are creatively satisfied with the production team\u2019s rendering of their beloved series\u2014including the structural and tonal tweaks made to appeal to a broader viewership. \u201cThey\u2019ve really stretched the fan base, and that means that it\u2019s building its own audience regardless of the source material,\u201d says Dayal. \u201cA lot of shows tend to not be able to do when there\u2019s such a theology around the world, but I think Virgin River<\/i> does that really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s wholesome energy has created a backwash of goodwill from viewers that seems to resonate on a deeper level than simple fandom. Proposals and pilgrimages are common sights at favorite filming locales. When Martin Henderson posted on social media that it was chilly filming at Jack\u2019s Bar, a woman from his home country of New Zealand hand-made and shipped wool clothing for the cast. Then she called the real-life WaterShed Grill to ask how many employees were on staff and made wool socks for every bar worker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Devenyi says he met a young woman inspired by the show to move from Scotland to Vancouver. \u201cShe just thought it was so beautiful she had to come and live here. She and her mother are huge fans and now they face time while they watch it together. It\u2019s really amazing.\u201d Sue Tenney recalls another woman whose mother was going through cancer treatment. \u201cShe told us that the only thing that she would get up for was to watch the show. I\u2019m proud of it and I\u2019m glad that I am part of something positive when there\u2019s so much negativity in the world. I think that those big overall themes are love and hope and family\u2014the family you make and the family you belong to. Everything else is just icing on the cake: great acting and fantastic costumes and beautiful pictures.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With themes of optimism and kindness, family and community running through the show like the Squamish River itself, the generosity of spirit that draws viewers to the show\u2019s warm, woodsy narrative extends beyond the camera frame. \u201cWe have a crew that\u2019s wonderful, probably the nicest crew in BC,\u201d says Dayal. \u201cThe cast is just amazing, lovely gentle people. Everybody is just nailing it, the directors are amazing, so it\u2019s just a really great vibe. Every show that I\u2019ve ever worked on where the crew and the production is a happy place, the show has been successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like the kindness and collaboration of the production,\u201d Millar concludes. \u201cIn Virgin River<\/i>, they\u2019re always trying to help each other and similarly in production, we work together\u2014everybody always pitches in. That\u2019s what we do in Virgin River\u2014we take care of our neighbors because they\u2019re our family.\u201d<\/p>\n

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L-R: Lily Ditchburn TAL (S5), Kassandra Rockandel KALM, Sarah Whitlam location scout,
W. Robert \u201cFluffy\u201d Millar\/LMGI SLM, Fiona Crossley LM (S5),
Zo\u00eb Galloway location office coordinator (S2, 3, 4), Steffi Matheos ALM, Sean McVicar ALM<\/p><\/div>\n

VIRGIN RIVER Location Department:<\/b><\/p>\n

W. Robert \u201cFluffy\u201d Millar\/LMGI<\/b> | SLM<\/p>\n

Fiona Crossley<\/b> | LM (Season 5)<\/p>\n

Kassandra Rockandel<\/b> | KALM<\/p>\n

Steffi Matheos<\/b> | ALM<\/p>\n

Sean McVicar<\/b> | ALM<\/p>\n

Lily Ditchburn<\/b> | (Trainee Assistant LM) TAL<\/p>\n

Sarah Whitlam<\/b> | Location Scout\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb Galloway<\/b> | Location Office Coordinator\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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