It was jaw-dropping. In New Zealand, you exit the west aspect of Auckland, and it’s like essentially the most lovely seaside you’ve ever seen. You go to Bethells Seashore, and you’ll flip the digital camera right here; you may shoot the complete factor. You’d shoot it a little bit bit this manner, you’ve obtained, like, a Bergman film. You go to the ocean, you’ve obtained From Right here to Eternity. The liberty that you’ve and the sweetness, I’ve by no means skilled something like that earlier than.
The battle scenes appeared to be much more elaborate and actually felt just like the present was leveling up. What went into filming these?
Jacob Tomuri, our stunt coordinator, is phenomenal. He did Mad Max; he’s Tom Hardy’s stunt double, and he’s simply so succesful and good. And so loads of it this season was that we’ve got a short while body, we transfer in a short time, and, once more, we’ve got a half-hour price range. We don’t have a one-hour price range, and we don’t have a one-hour taking pictures schedule. So loads of it was simply choosing our photographs and saying, Okay, we’re going to do a battle sequence. Let’s storyboard it. Let’s be sure that we all know what the stunts are going to be, and let’s be sure that the situation is spectacular. So we shoot it on that sandbar behind Bethells Seashore, and it was like a dune which went on ceaselessly…. A whole lot of it’s simply seeing what New Zealand has to supply geographically. After which deciding, sure, let’s try this, after which constructing it round that, after which ensuring that we’ve deliberate sufficient, that we are able to pull it off in a method that’s secure but additionally has sufficient measurement.
What was the concept behind having Stede as a merman in episode 3?
The thought was to make one thing that was simply lovely, and to get magnificence and have magnificence round them seeing one another once more and their want for one another. To do this and to do it in a method that it’s a comedy, however to do it in a method that’s earnest and genuinely doing it and singing a Kate Bush tune. We hit on the concept of a mermaid early on within the season two room, and [we said], Oh yeah, effectively, we’ve got to place that in. There can’t actually be mermaids on the present, however there might be in limbo, sort of purgatory, brain-damaged land as Blackbeard’s dying.
