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"Gravity" Director Explains Why Lake Zurich is Movie Heroine's Hometown

WGN's Dean Richards gets to bottom of mystery.

It’s been the buzz around town for weeks, ever since movie buffs began circulating the clip of “Gravity” showing Sandra Bullock telling George Clooney that her hometown is Lake Zurich, Illinois.

WGN’s Dean Richards got to the bottom of the mystery during an interview with Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron.

Bullock’s character, Ryan Stone, is from Lake Zurich because Cuaron wanted to define what part of the planet she is from, he said in the interview with Richards.

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A reason Lake Zurich was chosen is because the village is “the Silicon Valley” of medical engineering, he said.

Watch the clip here.

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