"Fringe" Star Discovers Ditmas Park

The cast of "Fringe" discussed the show with Filming in Brooklyn at the New York Television Festival, including the scene they shot in Ditmas Park last week. Blair Brown, who plays Nina Sharp and has an amazing prosthetic/robotic arm on the show, had only nice things to say about the neighborhood.

"We were just filming in Brooklyn the other day. We were in an area called Ditmas Park on Thursday and the edge of Prospect Park and it was spectacular.... The best part about working in a place like New York is, I didn’t even know about Ditmas Park, and now I want to go back."

She also had an amusing anecdote about witnessing the diversity of Brooklyn while filming in Prospect Park:

"When we were shooting in the park the other day Joshua Jackson and I were shooting a scene, and we couldn’t see [what was going on behind us], but the crew was in fits of laughter. It was like the history of transportation behind us. At one point a girl on a horse came by, then a father with a girl on a tandem bike, and then a young Hasidic Jew on roller blades. You couldn’t have planned to have those extras."

For the full interview, check out Filming in Brooklyn.