Dozens of crew members are filming on location in SF for the final season of Netflix’s A Man on the Inside, which will pay homage to the city’s film-noir past, as the city’s newly expanded incentive program aims to attract more film productions.
Mayor Daniel Lurie visited the set at the Legion of Honor on Wednesday, where married actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen were filming the third season of Netflix’s A Man on the Inside on their 31st wedding anniversary, as the Chronicle reports. Lurie congratulated the couple in a social media video Thursday, with actor Nick Offerman photobombing the mayor in the background.
The production is reportedly spending 28 days filming in San Francisco, with more than 248 local crew members working on the series, according to Lurie. Over the past couple weeks, the comedy has been spotted by Redditors around City Hall and Nob Hill, including near the Tonga Room. According to KRON4, one scene apparently involved a cable car.
The move to San Francisco marks a shift for the series, whose first two seasons were filmed largely in Los Angeles. Per the Chronicle, the third season, which will also be its last, is being shot almost entirely in the city.
The production is among the projects that could benefit from San Francisco’s expanded film incentive program, which Lurie signed into law in February. Development producer Morgan Sackett told the Chronicle last month that the changes could help bring more productions back to the city.
“I believe this new film incentive will go a long way to restoring San Francisco as a filmmakers' destination,” Sackett said, speaking to the Chronicle.
Sackett has also said the upcoming season will draw inspiration from Nathaniel Rich’s book San Francisco Noir, which examines the city’s history in film. The series follows Charles Nieuwendyk, a widowed retired engineering professor played by Danson, who takes a job with a private detective agency. The show was created by Michael Schur, and Steenburgen plays Mona Margadoff, Charles’ love interest, introduced in Season 2.
San Francisco also has a personal connection for the anniversary couple. Steenburgen told Lurie she fell in love with Danson while the two were on a date in the city in 1993. Danson pointed out that Steenburgen had also met her first husband, actor Malcolm McDowell, in San Francisco while filming the 1979 science-fiction movie Time After Time.
“I only meet and fall in love with men I met in San Francisco,” Steenburgen joked in the video, before warning viewers, “You guys watch out!”
Danson replied, “This will be the last time she visits San Francisco.”
Per the Chronicle, Offerman is among several newcomers joining the final season, alongside Bernadette Peters, Annette O’Toole, Rachel Dratch, Stephen Root, Christopher McDonald, Diedrich Bader, and Jessica St. Clair. Returning cast members include Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Stephanie Beatriz, Eugene Cordero, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Sally Struthers.
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