Trivia / Haven

• Acting for Two:
  • Cristián de la Fuente in "Friend or Faux."
  • Acting for Five: Emily Rose as Audrey Parker, Lucy Ripley, Sarah Vernon, and as of Season 4, Lexie DeWitt and Mara. And, finally, Paige.
• Approval of God: Despite the loose connection to the book, Stephen King was very supportive of the series
• California Doubling: Played With. The series is set in Maine and filmed in Nova Scotia. While Nova Scotia is doubling for Maine, the fact that Nova Scotia is on the east coast and geographically close to Maine means the aesthetic is very similar. The outdoor shots of Haven look very mid-coast Maine. In some cases, even moreso than actual coastal Maine towns.
• Directed by Cast Member: Jason Priestley (Chris Brody) directed "Lockdown" and "Real Estate", Lucas Bryant (Nathan Wuornos) directed "Enter Sandman", and Colin Ferguson (William) directed "Just Passing Through".
• Distanced from Current Events: "Haven S 3 E 12 Reunion" (in which there is a shooting at an alumni reunion) and "Haven S 3 E 13 Thanks For The Memories" were pulled at the last minute due to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, with both episodes airing on January 17, 2013 instead.
• Enforced Method Acting:
  • The actors are never told spoilers, so that their reactions to any new development or revelation is genuine. The actors have expressed in interviews that they were dying to learn the truth about The Troubles and Audrey's origins as much as the fans.
  • Emily Rose has stated that she used her frustration at finding out that she isn't really Audrey Parker and all of the training to be a believable F.B.I agent and the emotional life she had been building as an actor was basically not true as motivation and emotional subtext for how her character must feel about her own life.
• Forced Perspective: There's a 13-inch height difference between Emma Lahana and Eric Balfour, but it's hardly noticeable most of the time thanks to creative camera angles. They're often on different planes within a shot, such as one of them in the mid-ground while the other is in the foreground, which makes them appear much closer in height than they actually are. It's used so often that scenes that don't are jarring, like in "When the Bough Breaks," where a close-up has them talking eye-to-eye...only for the wide shot to reveal they're eye-to-eye because she is standing and he is sitting down.
• It's a Small World, After All: The actors for Dwight and Nathan found out they grew up 20 minutes away from each other. Emily Rose (Audrey) noted they even share a very similar sense of humor.
• I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Minor character McHugh is one of Dwight's helpers and is portrayed by William Reso. Reso's also best friends with Adam Copeland (who plays Dwight) and they had a successful wrestling career together before Haven.
• Mutually Fictional: Haven has an interesting relationship with the larger Stephen King canon. The writers are hyper-aware it's based on a King novella, and love a good Mythology Gag, but they aren't treated equally. Criminals are released from Shawshank Penitentiary, characters visit or grew up in Derry, and Audrey receives a book in the Misery Chastain series as a gift, but Duke also owns a copy of The Tommyknockers and Howard dismissively refers to Audrey's work with the Troubled as being like Children of the Corn. The Tommyknockers being fictional is especially weird, since the series takes its name from that particular work.
• Out of Holiday Episode: Invoked in the Christmas episode "Silent Night," which was released around Christmas in reality but took place in July In-Universe. Someone's trouble was creating Christmas in Haven by trapping the town in a snowglobe, and only Audrey, who is immune to the Troubles, knew something was wrong. Everyone else just assumes she's a Grinch for not liking Christmas (and thinks she's crazy when she says Christmas is not in July).
• Playing Against Type:
  • Claudia Black's character (Moira) is rather frumpy, talks in an American accent, and is a total Jerkass.
  • Colin Ferguson, known for playing genial, bumbling Everyman Jack Carter, turns out to be both evil and the Big Bad of Season 4.
  • Croatoan, The Big Bad of the series, a quiet, gentle, soft-spoken sociopath is played by Large Ham Extraordinaire, William Shatner.
  • John Dunsworth was best known to most audiences for playing the antagonistic, perpetually drunken jerkass Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys. Here he plays a decent, sober, logical fellow.
  • One of the things that makes William Shatner's role so unsettling is his abandonment of his Large Ham tendencies in favor of being a Soft-Spoken Sadist. It's terrifying.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • Lucas Bryant's wife Kirsty Hinchcliffe plays Rebecca Rafferty, a minor cop in Haven PD starting in season 4.
  • John Dunsworth's (Dave) daughter Molly plays Vickie.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Jennifer is killed off in the Season 5 premiere because Emma Lahana had to go home due to a family emergency (she's from New Zealand and the show is filmed in Nova Scotia).
• Those Two Actors:
  • Emily Rose (Audrey) and Lucas Bryant (Nathan) starred in a 2010 movie called Perfect Plan.
  • Claudia Black (Moira in "Magic Hour Part 1 & 2") and Nolan North (Will Brady in "Last Goodbyes") worked with Emily Rose in Uncharted.