In one scene Charlie yells, “You don’t deserve Foxglove!” Dennis Quaid also played a Napa Valley resident (and vineyard owner) in The Parent Trap (1998). The gorgeous green AGA range is another notable feature:įor The Intruder, the house was supposed to be in Napa Valley. Those arched openings in the kitchen makes it easy to spot in other movies. “We didn’t change much,” the producer Roxanne Avent adds. ![]() “That really is the wallpaper in the house,” the director says in the DVD Commentary. This bedroom looks pretty much the same in Age of Adaline with the yellow wallpaper, minus the four-poster bed they had in it. I’ve since noticed the same tapestry in other movies, so it must belong to the homeowners. They even used the tapestry on the wall of the living room as a pivotal plot point in the film. The director says this living room was one of the reasons they picked this house for the movie: “The structure, the bookshelves, the fact that it felt like somebody had been living there a long time. This black-painted parlor with the fireplace had wallpaper in The Age of Adaline, but otherwise looks pretty much the same. Originally we were looking for something newer that Charlie might have built, but when we saw this place I think we kind of felt there was some magic there.”ĭirector Deon Taylor agrees, “All the magic! We drove all around Canada for the entire day. The Intruder screenwriter David Loughery says, “This was an amazing house. One of the most recent films, and one that took advantage of almost every room in the house and the property around it, was the 2019 thriller The Intruder.ĭennis Quaid plays a widower who sells the house to a young married couple (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good), but he isn’t quite ready to let it go. That’s why I was so happy to see more of it in The Intruder. The exterior was always filmed in darkness and fog, and the close-ups of the actors kept us from seeing much of the rooms, which was frustrating. Oddly, even though the house made a big impression in this movie, they really didn’t give us many clear shots of it. They even changed the locations for some of the scenes that were originally planned to take place elsewhere and moved them to the property to take advantage of how beautiful it was. The private, tree-lined drive was a big selling point for the Age of Adaline director. In other movies you’ll see this den was painted black instead.Īdaline’s bedroom has yellow wallpaper that you’ll see in other movies, too: The front den has a large fireplace and was wallpapered in The Age of Adaline: This white kitchen with the painted brick archways is distinctive enough that you’ll start to spot it pretty easily when you see it in other movies. If you haven’t been through it, I can’t recommend it.” The Cottage Kitchen: He adds he was “hoping to make a discovery” and was disappointed to learn how many other productions it had already appeared in.īut the homeowners, he says, “were great about having the crew come in and take over their house, which is a very invasive process. And candidly, it wasn’t what I had imagined, but it had such remarkable character.” We went out there pretty early in the process and I had a very clear idea of what I wanted this house to be like. ![]() ![]() In The Age of Adaline, the shutters were a dark green color:ĭirector Lee Toland Krieger says, “This was a house about 40 minutes outside downtown Vancouver. I was excited when I realized that it was filmed on location at Foxglove Cottage, both inside and out. Let’s take a look at some of the movies and TV shows the cottage has appeared in and how it looked in each of them!įor years I’ve heard from readers asking for intel on the house from The Age of Adaline, the 2015 romantic drama starring Blake Lively as a woman who doesn’t grow old. Besides the fact that it has a fairytale cottage look, it’s become a popular filming location because so many productions shoot nearby in Vancouver. It sits at the end of a long, private lane on Foxglove Farm in Langley, British Columbia. The shutter colors may change, and there may be more or less ivy covering the front of the house depending on the season, but it’s unmistakably the same place. What I’ve found is that once you’re familiar with Foxglove Cottage, you’ll be surprised by how often it turns up. But it has also appeared in the 2019 thriller The Intruder and on popular TV shows like “Riverdale” and the Netflix series “Away. It had a memorable turn in the 2015 romantic drama The Age of Adaline. If this charming, ivy-covered cottage looks familiar to you, it’s probably because it has starred in many movies and TV shows over the years.
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