Where was The Mother filmed? Netflix film takes fans on a global tour
Netflix’s latest action movie starring Jennifer Lopez takes fans on location to beautiful landscapes, but where was The Mother filmed?
If you are in need of an action drama film this Friday evening, look no further than Netflix’s latest offering, The Mother.
Starring the iconic Jennifer Lopez, this new movie tells the story of a famed assassin who must come out of hiding after a group of dangerous assailants targets her only daughter.
The Mother takes fans from snow-capped valleys to desert coastlines with some truly spectacular landscapes, but where was the movie actually filmed?
Where was The Mother filmed?
Netflix’s 2023 movie The Mother’s filming location is in Vancouver, (British Columbia, Canada), Smithers (British Columbia, Canada), and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain).
Principal photography started in October 2021 and took the production crew to the beautiful Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia province.
Several famous landmarks can be spotted in The Mother, with large portions of the movie being filmed in the popular downtown area including Victory Square, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver’s Maritime Museum, and the HR MacMillan Space Centre.
Speaking to ComingSoon, director Niki Caro explained how the need to expand production to multiple locations was a key aspect of the ‘epic scale’ that The Mother was trying to achieve.
“I was really drawn to kind of the epic scale of it and the global nature of the story. So we had to be in Afghanistan and Cuba and the United States and Alaska, of course, for the snow,” she said.
“So the great filmmaking challenge to find all of those locations in a very short period of time. But I think in terms of watching the movie, for me, I wanted the movie to keep getting bigger as it went on.”
Outside Vancouver, but still, within the confines of British Columbia, The Mother switched up locations to the town of Smithers in order to replicate the Alaskan landscape.
Speaking on her Instagram account, lead actress Jennifer Lopez shared a special Thanksgiving message from the snow-covered Smithers: “My last day here shooting on The Mother out here in Smithers in the snow. It’s been beautiful but today I’m on my way home and I’m so excited for Thanksgiving!”
Unfortunately, as was the case with the vast majority of productions at the time, filming was temporarily halted in January 2022 due to an outbreak of a coronavirus variant in the area.
Production resumed just a few months later, with The Mother jetting off to sunny Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital of the Spanish Canary Islands, which would actually serve as the backdrop for a city in Cuba.
According to The Canary News, the team spent time filming at “the El Berriel flying club, in the Arteara ravine, in Fataga, in the Meloneras area, Risco de San Juan and the Gabinete Literario in the capital, Las Palmas, among other areas around the island.”
“The film production is the result of a strategy implemented by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria to diversify the productive fabric of the island, by investing in booming economic sectors such as the audiovisual sector, and adds to the large range of high profile, international productions that have been taking place on Gran Canaria for many years.”
The Spain’s News outlet added that the production team had also “worked for weeks to condition the enclave” at Ladera Alta dairy, in Los Giles.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has also hosted various film productions throughout the years, including Allied (2016), The Titan (2018), Wasp Network (2019), and even Moby Dick (1956).
The Mother is now streaming around the world on Netflix.
By Tom Llewellyn – [email protected]
