{"id":839397,"date":"2026-08-02T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839397\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:54:12","slug":"chris-hemsworth-star-spotted-while-working-on-film-in-wollongong-illawarra-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839397\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth: star spotted while working on film in Wollongong | Illawarra Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">The Illawarra has served as a filming location for several Australian and international productions in recent years, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illawarramercury.com.au\/story\/7945088\/planet-of-the-apes-adds-albion-park-to-film-locations-what-we-know-so-far\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\">Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes<\/a>, the BBC crime series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illawarramercury.com.au\/story\/9202432\/kerry-armstrong-joins-return-to-paradise-in-fiery-illawarra-scene\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\">Return to Paradise<\/a>, the Paramount+ series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illawarramercury.com.au\/story\/8098118\/yael-stone-filming-new-drama-series-in-wollongong\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\">One Night<\/a>, starring Illawarra local Yael Stone, Russell Crowe MMA flick Beast, and the yet-to-be-released drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illawarramercury.com.au\/story\/8943645\/hollywood-hits-port-kembla-for-new-pamela-anderson-film\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\">Place to Be<\/a>, starring Taika Waititi, Pamela Anderson and Ellen Burstyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Illawarra has served as a filming location for several Australian and international productions in recent years, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-839397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}