Over the course of its six-season run on NBC, This Is Us featured an extensive cast , as the story spanned multiple generations and introduced a plethora of characters who were close to the Pearson family in one decade or another. Alyson Hannigan was not amongst its guest stars, but it turns out her house played a really big role, despite her initial apprehension to allow the tear-jerking drama to use it as a filming location. The How I Met Your Mother star once opened up about how her home became the cabin that Kevin Pearson (Justin Hartley) designed and built for his mother — the home where Rebecca (Mandy Moore) ultimately died .
In 2021, Alyson Hannigan told Sirius XM’s The Michelle Collins Show (via ET ) that before they’d moved in, the house was regularly used for film shoots. Despite turning down studios who requested “at least twice a month” to film there, the actress and her husband reconsidered after learning This Is Us ’ director was a neighbor of theirs. Hannigan said: We were like, 'If we are ever going to do it, we would do it for that show 'cause it’s so good.
’ I have to agree, the drama that aired from 2016 to 2022 was pretty great, that that cabin became almost a character in itself for what it meant to Kevin and for the fact that it’s where all of the Pearsons gathered in Rebecca’s final days. However, one can understand why the American Pie actress wouldn’t be too enthusiastic about inviting a film crew into the home she shared with hus.