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Psychological Thriller SURFACE With Gugu Mbatha-Raw Is Set In San Francisco But Was Filmed in Vancouver

Gugu Mbatha-Raw on North Vancouver’s Burrard Drydock Pier

Psychological Thriller SURFACE With Gugu Mbatha-Raw Is Set In San Francisco But Was Filmed in Vancouver

Is everyone in on a secret that Sophie can’t remember?

Psychological thriller Surface, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a woman who’s lost her memory, is set in San Francisco but filmed mainly in Vancouver, although you can’t tell from the trailer.

Surface is set in San Francisco and follows Sophie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a woman who recently suffered a traumatic head injury that has left her with extreme memory loss, believed to be a result of a suicide attempt. As Sophie embarks on a quest to put the pieces of her life back together with the help of her husband and friends, she begins to question whether or not the truth she is told is in fact the truth she has lived.

The series premieres its first 3 episodes on July 29th on Apple TV+.

Episodes: 8.

Showrunner: Veronica West.

Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Stephan James, Ari Graynor, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Francois Arnaud, Millie Brady.

Hollywood North Buzz image.

The Surface series start filming in Vancouver in late June last year.

And wrapped filming in late October last Fall.

Filming.

Working title: Madeline.

Gugu Mbatha Raw on set as a clearly troubled Sophie/The Network Hub image.

We saw some regression in Sophie’s character over the course of filming.

This was the episode directed by Jennifer Morrison of Once Upon a Time fame.

Surface setting up at the Clough Club in Gastown.

Producers: Hello Sunsine’s Reese Witherspoon & Lauren Neustadter, Apple Studios..

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