Trivia / John Adams

• California Doubling: The show takes place in various parts of 18th century British North America, including Philadelphia and Boston. However, the entire mini-series (save the the European scenes) was shot in Virginia.
• Fake American: Tom Wilkinson as Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Dillane as Thomas Jefferson, Rufus Sewell as Alexander Hamilton... Admittedly, the characters should necessitate this kind of casting, because the Founding Fathers were British subjects before they were "American", and the colonies were of course inherently Anglophilic until things got complicated.
  • Hamilton, in fact, was born and raised in the British West Indies, on the island of Nevis.

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