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Herring Point transformed into TV series set

Large crew mobilizes to start filming segment of ‘Lioness’ at Cape park
The Herring Point parking lot in Cape Henlopen State Park has been transformed into a film staging area. Filming is taking place on the beach below. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
Ron MacArthur
September 27, 2022

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Cape Henlopen Drive
Lewes, DE 19958
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If you want to go to Herring Point in Cape Henlopen State Park, you better make different plans. The parking lot and the beach below are closed for filming of a segment of the Paramount+ drama “Lioness.” Filming is scheduled to take place through Thursday, Sept. 29. One of the producers and creators of the series is Taylor Sheridan of “Yellowstone” fame. The global action-thriller is based on a real-life CIA program.

A casting call was put out for “beach bodies” in the Rehoboth Beach area for filming this week. Extras will be paid $150 a day.

The area in and around Herring Point was a hub of activity Monday morning as dozens of trucks, tractor-trailers and crew members began to mobilize for filming. More trucks and a trailer city have been set up as base camp in the parking lot of the park's beach house.

The parking lot for access to Gordons Pond Trail, beach drive-on locations and the main beach remain open.

According to Variety, “Lioness” stars Zoe Saldaña, who’s best known for her roles in Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy and Pirates of the Caribbean. 

 

Filming is taking place between the two jetties on the beach at the bottom of Herring Point. The area is off limits to the public.
The filming requires a large crew, as this photograph shows.
Obviously, some beach scenes are part of the day’s schedule.
These are apparently some of the “beach body” extras being used in the filming.
Tractor-trailers filled with filming equipment are being unloaded near Herring Point.
Yellow directional signs placed by King Street Productions are all over Cape Henlopen State Park
A base camp, with temporary living quarters, has been set up in the park’s beach house parking lot.
Access to Gordon Ponds Trail is open. Hundreds of bicyclists showed up early Monday to check out the scene.
A Delaware State Parks ranger is parked at the entrance to the parking lot.
The crew has erected a large scaffold at Herring Point for cameras.
A large set light helps to ease shadows cast by the late afternoon sun.
A camera crew moves its equipment to another spot on the beach.
Tents pop up over the dunes and grass at Herring Point.

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