Brendan Fraser plays a billionaire in the new CW series 'Professionals.' We wanted to know — where was 'Professionals' filmed? Details.
Let's just rename 2022 the yr of the Brendan Fraser-aissance, we could? Everyone's favourite healthy main man made an epic return to performing previous this year with The Whale, which led to a six-minute status ovation at the Venice International Film Festival.
Now Brendan is additionally back on TV with Professionals, one in every of the newest shows in the CW's fall lineup.
Brendan plays 'billionaire futurist' Peter Swann, a man made up our minds to determine why his complicated scientific satellite exploded on deployment.
The series indubitably has an epic action-adventure type of really feel, but where was Professionals filmed to convey this to existence? Here's what we know.
Brendan Fraser as Peter Swann
Where was the CW display 'Professionals' in fact filmed?
According to Viaplay, the two fundamental filming places for Professionals were Ireland and South Africa. The 10-episode television series is founded off of the 2012 film Soldiers of Fortune.
Per the Professionals' IMDb page, filming wasn't exactly a holiday for the cast and team.
The minutiae segment states that, "During the three-month long filming in Johannesburg, numerous cast and crew became victims of crime which included random shootings and carjackings. Brendan Fraser even had his cell phone stolen in one violent incident."
Has 'Professionals' been renewed for a second season yet?
As of Oct. 25, 2022, Professionals has but to be renewed for a second season. However, if the ratings are any indication, the outlook seems somewhat shaky. The series premiered to reasonably lackluster ratings in the all-important 18-Forty nine demographic, bringing in most effective 340,000 viewers (not up to half of the viewers that The Winchesters won right prior to it). Ratings and viewership went even further down the following week.
That stated, once in a while a display simply wishes a bit time to seek out its footing and the right target audience. If nothing else, the combination of Brendan Fraser and CW favorite Tom Welling should be sufficient to draw a couple of more other people in!
Tom Welling as Vincent Corbo
Wait, Tom Welling is in 'Professionals' too? Who else is in the solid?
Yep! Smallville alum Tom Welling additionally stars in Professionals as Vincent Corbo. His character is knowledgeable safety guy who Peter hires to find out who messed with his scientific satellite.
Elena Anaya plays Brendan's fiancée, Dr. Graciela "Grace" Davila. This isn't the first time the actress has played a health care provider, having taken on the function of Dr. Maru in the first Wonder Woman movie back in 2017. The rest of the Professionals forged is made up of many South Africa-based actors, together with Stevel Marc, Jazzara Jaslynn, Tanya van Graan, and more.
Catch new episodes of Professionals on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET, and streaming the subsequent day on the CW app.
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