Over the course of its six seasons on NBC, This is us featured an extensive castas the story spanned multiple generations and introduced a plethora of characters who had close ties to the Pearson family in one decade or another. Alyson Hannigan wasn’t one of the guest stars, but it turns out her home played a very big role despite her initial apprehension about letting the tear-jerking drama use it as a filming location.

The How I met your mother star once told how her house the cabin that Kevin Pearson (Justin Hartley) designed and built for his mother – the house where Rebecca (Mandy Moore) eventually died. In 2021, Alyson Hannigan told Sirius XM’s The Michelle Collins Show (via AND) that before they moved in, the house was regularly used for filming. Despite turning down studios that asked to film there “at least twice a month,” the actress and her husband reconsidered after hearing This is us‘director was a neighbor of theirs. Hannigan said:

We were like, ‘If we were ever going to do it, we would do it for that show because it’s that good.’