This week, get ready for flying sharks and a massive showdown when "Sharknado 3" debuts on Wednesday.

And get this - much of the made-for-TV-movie was shot right here in Central Florida.

The (very much) tongue-in-cheek disaster films follow the heroes as they do battle with shark-raining tornadoes. New York and Los Angeles already got a beating in the first two. So this time, it's Washington DC, down the East Coast, and all over Orange, Volusia, and Brevard Counties.

We caught up with co-stars Ian Ziering and Tara Reid, who are promoting Wednesday's TV debut (SyFy, 9 p.m.).

ALLISON WALKER: I'm just letting you know that viewing parties are happening all over Central Florida partly because we're going to recognize stuff! One place you filmed was at Universal Orlando Resort. Which rides got some love in the film?

IAN ZIERING: We pretty much decimated the entire Orlando - Universal Studios there. Big storm's coming! Big storm's coming there to Central Florida! There was really no safe place, like you mentioned. We were up at the [Daytona International Speedway]. We were at Cape Canaveral. We were all over the interior of Universal Studios and it was just fantastic having that kind of access. It never would have happened unless all of these places were fans of the movie to grant us this access. We didn't have the budget to pay for these things. But they welcomed us in.

TARA REID: Except when we shot it, I have to be honest, we had the coldest, the most, like - I think you guys [hadn't had that] weather there in 30 years. We were freezing. And we thought we were going down to Orlando and I brought bikinis, I was going to lay by the pool...

IZ: ...Right, [we thought] it's going to be warm. Not so much.

AW: So in this film, there's no bomb big enough to dissipate the storm. So you have to find something else and that's where NASA comes in. Expound on that.

IZ: I really don't want to. I don't want to give away the story points, but NASA was integral in furnishing us the means necessary to dissipate the storm. Um, yea, this movie's out of this world. There's a little hint for you.

AW: Tara, I saw you at the Grand Bohemian one night in downtown Orlando. Since you're done filming - and we won't be trying to track you down, I promise - where else did you got to eat or grab a cocktail?

TR: We didn't go too much. I mean, we were working so much. We went to Universal in a little boat. CityWalk.

IZ: Yea, that was just to get back to the hotels. We work so hard. It's go rigorous, the shooting schedule and the pace, that we weren't going out to party. Just coming home to sleep, to recharge the batteries because every day, we hit it fast and hard.

TR: Running away from sharks all day takes it out of ya.

AW: After the surprise success of the first movie, I understand stars would show up and they’d have to write in something creative just to make it happen. Even your friends, right?TR: I mean, every, every - we had so many friends that we just put in the film and friends that came to us and we asked if they could be put in the film. But most celebrities came by themselves wanting to be in the film as well.

IZ: How rad would it be to have as star from a major blockbuster, action-adventure flick in perhaps a 4th installment?

IZ: Stallone. Why not?

TR: Yea. For sure.

IZ: Of course Arnold. Of course Bruce.

TR: Sigourney Weaver. She'd be great.

IZ: This movie doesn't know that it's not supposed to do the things that it's doing. This is a small TV movie shot on a very small budget. But the scripts are written like $100-million blockbusters. What's nice is, now that we've captured the hearts and imagination of the fans that it spills over into the entertainment community and now they're all clamoring to be a part of it. It's kind of like a badge of honor to have your name listed on IMDB as participating in Sharknado. And if you get eaten, it's even better.

AW: So for a possible 4th installment, you thinking the UK? Someplace overseas?

TR: That'd be fantastic.

IZ: You know, since the movie is popular on a global playing field, it would be great to take the movie to the fans wherever they are. We'll probably end up shooting Spain or London in Burbank, CA - cuz it's not like there's money to move production over there - but making it more of a universal movie...

TR: ... Because it is! It comes out in 90 countries. To shoot it in another country would be really cool.

You can watch the entire interview in the VIDEO section up top.