{"id":225102,"date":"2026-04-09T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:32:07","slug":"who-said-that-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225102\/","title":{"rendered":"Who said that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subheadline\">Florida\u2019s quote of the day<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe St. Pete will become a film Mecca.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Beth Roberts<\/p>\n<p>The Redden family lives in England, just 20 minutes from where the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d films were made.<\/p>\n<p>Eager for some sun, they booked a last-minute vacation at the Don CeSar on St. Pete Beach \u2014 only to find themselves in the middle of more moviemaking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey put a note under the door and said that Paul (Rudd) was gonna be out,\u201d Sarah Redden said with a laugh on Monday. \u201cWhen we came back from dinner last night, they closed the car lot, didn\u2019t they, and all these 1980s cars were appearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local filming for \u201cThe Statement,\u201d a feature film set at the Don CeSar, kicked off Monday. The period piece, directed by Oscar winner Tom McCarthy and based on a nonfiction book about a real climate conference in the 1980s, stars Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Evan Peters and Tatiana Maslany.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/life-culture\/arts\/movies\/2026\/04\/08\/paul-rudd-giamatti-st-pete-movie-statement-filming-don-cesar-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s quote of the day &#8220;Maybe St. Pete will become a film Mecca.&#8221; &#8212; Beth Roberts The Redden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-225102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}