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  • California Doubling: According to Dean Devlin and the production crew in interviews, any non-Cebu scenes were shot in New Zealand, since they also use the country as a center to get auditions for Australian/New Zealander-based actors and actresses to be cast in the show.
  • Fake Nationality: A lot of Filipino (and non-Filipino actors/actresses) were cast as various nationalities.
    • Angeli Bayani is an Indian doctor working as a US Navy base in Cebu.
    • Ryan Eigenmann as a Mexican arms dealer named El Diablo.
    • Will Devaughn, born in Germany, as a Malaysian drug dealer named Jimmy Teo.
    • Richard Yap as a Singaporean Chinese (Yee), who sadly didn't do the Singaporean English accent.
    • Fake Russian:
      • Paul Holme as an ex-Soviet navy officer posing as a filmmaker.
  • Produced by Cast Member: Christian Kane's one of the executive producers.
  • Write What You Know: The show's setting in the Philippines is in part due to Devlin being half-Filipino.

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