And whenever we were kind of compartmentalizing parts of these long shots, it made it so much worse…
It really felt like the episode, because we were actually fighting against the sun going down…
The last day, we edged into actual nighttime…
It really was like the show.
I remember, around the fifth take, watching him.
And I thought, “Oh, he’s gonna lose it now.”
And I literally saw him make the decision to laugh.
He was like, “Who am I gonna be mad at?
This was my idea!”
Like, It’s only funny."
He never, ever got frustrated.
But he actually has it.
It was astonishing to watch.
It was like watching magic tricks every day.
What’s weird was it also felt really loose.
But the shot was so elaborate.
I actually, to this day, cannot figure out how they did it.
It was really amazing to watch.
You know, things happen on sets.
That was the thing that was, by far, the hardest.
And, even though what we’re doing is very specific, to not have it feel rigid.
We couldn’t go back.
It really started to reflect the episode itself in many, many, many, many ways.
I thought it was going to be too dark.
The take we used, I think, was the very last time we did it.
And it actually ended up working perfectly.
The fictional crew’s race against the light mirrored the real crew’s struggle to capture footage before nightfall.
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Source:GQ
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