LOS ANGELES - Sterling K. Brown is telling me about the underground bunker in his Ladera Heights home, a feature common to houses built during the Cold War, when fears of a nuclear holocaust ran rampant and kids were watching “duck and cover” films at school.

Brown and his wife, Ryan Michelle Bathé, sealed the bunker when they moved in, not wanting their two boys to wander in there.

But now that Brown has spent the last couple of years immersed in making the Emmy-nominated drama “Paradise,” set inside a massive domed underground city that some 25,000 people call home after a tsunami floods the planet, I wonder if the show’s doomsday vibes have seeped into his consciousness.

“It’s definitely seeped into my wife’s brain,” Brown says, laughing, adding that now that the boys are older - A

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