1 00:00:06,965 --> 00:00:08,633 This is an epic scene. 2 00:00:10,176 --> 00:00:12,762 Jim Clay is a mad man of all the best kinds. 3 00:00:13,555 --> 00:00:14,597 I couldn't wait, to be fair. 4 00:00:16,975 --> 00:00:19,644 She's badass. Why wouldn't you have a crossbow? 5 00:00:20,395 --> 00:00:21,354 It was a funeral. 6 00:00:22,230 --> 00:00:23,481 But I had so much fun. 7 00:00:24,190 --> 00:00:25,775 That's a shot. 8 00:00:25,859 --> 00:00:27,861 I just had the best seats in the house. 9 00:00:54,429 --> 00:00:57,724 I wanted to make the opening of the episode chaotic 10 00:00:57,807 --> 00:01:00,268 and unfair and violent. 11 00:01:01,311 --> 00:01:06,107 Because I felt everyone was blinded by the rage. 12 00:01:06,191 --> 00:01:11,029 I also wanted to intercut it with Aegon smashing up 13 00:01:11,112 --> 00:01:14,115 Viserys's model of Old Valyria. 14 00:01:20,372 --> 00:01:21,914 We shot a lot of that model in season one. 15 00:01:21,998 --> 00:01:23,458 And action. 16 00:01:24,125 --> 00:01:26,127 The Lady Alicent Hightower, Your Grace. 17 00:01:27,545 --> 00:01:31,675 It was a beautiful, huge model that took half of the king's apartment. 18 00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:33,593 It's truly wondrous what you've built. 19 00:01:33,718 --> 00:01:37,389 But it was so nice and so beautiful that it was just big part of the room, 20 00:01:37,472 --> 00:01:39,473 so we got to destroy it 21 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,102 and it was really fun. 22 00:01:43,687 --> 00:01:46,021 The good news is, they made a stunt version that was 23 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:48,066 specifically for smashing, so 24 00:01:48,149 --> 00:01:51,485 the beautiful Valyrian model is still intact. 25 00:01:54,739 --> 00:01:56,533 The incredible props people 26 00:01:56,616 --> 00:02:02,497 made these, like, 3D-printed extra ones that would look real when we smashed, 27 00:02:02,580 --> 00:02:06,251 and that we could have the sort of powder of it into the air. 28 00:02:06,334 --> 00:02:08,711 Has to be made out of really light material. 29 00:02:08,794 --> 00:02:10,630 And that's, obviously, when our mold team 30 00:02:10,714 --> 00:02:12,632 and all their knowledge come into play there 31 00:02:12,757 --> 00:02:14,342 and they give us-- and they do a few tests 32 00:02:14,467 --> 00:02:16,720 and we do some smashes, and we just make sure that 33 00:02:16,803 --> 00:02:18,680 we've got the look that they want. 34 00:02:20,223 --> 00:02:22,642 The actual 3D models are really expensive, 35 00:02:22,726 --> 00:02:25,603 so we couldn't have many shots of it. 36 00:02:25,687 --> 00:02:28,732 So I said, "Okay, Tom, you know, let's do this in one." 37 00:02:29,357 --> 00:02:30,358 Action! 38 00:02:32,652 --> 00:02:34,279 I'll kill them! 39 00:02:34,362 --> 00:02:38,616 I had extreme pangs of guilt doing that because I was aware how much work 40 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:39,993 goes into a piece like that. 41 00:02:40,869 --> 00:02:43,246 But I guess they made those pieces with the knowledge 42 00:02:43,329 --> 00:02:44,956 that they were gonna be smashed to bits. 43 00:02:45,874 --> 00:02:47,250 I'll kill them all! 44 00:02:47,876 --> 00:02:50,837 I think that is exactly what was needed for us to see 45 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:53,006 where Aegon's energy was goin', you know? 46 00:02:53,089 --> 00:02:54,257 He didn't have anywhere to put it, 47 00:02:54,341 --> 00:02:56,301 and he had people around him tellin' him to make decisions 48 00:02:56,384 --> 00:02:57,594 and be pragmatic. 49 00:02:57,677 --> 00:02:59,846 And it's okay. It'll get better over time. 50 00:02:59,929 --> 00:03:02,891 No, it fuckin' won't. I need to smash the crap outta this, ya know? 51 00:03:02,974 --> 00:03:04,934 Sorry for swearing. 52 00:03:09,564 --> 00:03:11,232 Alright, brilliant. 53 00:03:23,370 --> 00:03:26,164 The funeral, it was very exciting to get that set piece. 54 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:33,546 I sort of looked into, you know, "The Godfather" 55 00:03:33,630 --> 00:03:37,425 and all those great movies who have these incredible funeral scenes. 56 00:03:37,509 --> 00:03:41,304 And I also-- it also made me think very much about, 57 00:03:42,138 --> 00:03:46,309 Princess Di's funeral and how slow the cortège was. 58 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,106 And it made me think about Alicent and Helaena 59 00:03:51,189 --> 00:03:56,861 being forced to be public fodder in their grief. 60 00:03:58,863 --> 00:04:01,449 We always saw it as an opportunity to open the episode, 61 00:04:01,533 --> 00:04:05,286 go outside, see King's Landing, see Flea Bottom. 62 00:04:05,370 --> 00:04:08,498 And we wanted the funeral to become about the queen, 63 00:04:08,581 --> 00:04:11,960 about what she's feeling about being exposed that way. 64 00:04:12,544 --> 00:04:15,839 So it had to be scope-y, but it had to be very intimate. 65 00:04:17,132 --> 00:04:19,175 Welcome to Cáceres. 66 00:04:26,641 --> 00:04:28,601 To shoot season two of "House of the Dragon" 67 00:04:28,685 --> 00:04:31,396 in Spain has been amazing. 68 00:04:31,479 --> 00:04:32,856 Spain is always great. 69 00:04:32,939 --> 00:04:34,357 You know, we went back to Cáceres and Trujillo 70 00:04:34,441 --> 00:04:36,067 to cover off, essentially, King's Landing 71 00:04:36,151 --> 00:04:37,986 and its immediate surrounds. 72 00:04:38,069 --> 00:04:41,448 Locations give a real sense of just scope and scale and then bigness. 73 00:04:41,531 --> 00:04:44,659 There's a fullness to our world that you couldn't get just on set. 74 00:04:45,493 --> 00:04:48,246 Cáceres, where we filmed, was so beautiful, 75 00:04:48,329 --> 00:04:52,459 and the people were so wonderful and kind and welcomin'. 76 00:04:52,584 --> 00:04:54,502 Spain was the place where we shot season one. 77 00:04:54,586 --> 00:04:56,087 So, it was kinda like going back home. 78 00:04:56,379 --> 00:04:59,883 We know the nooks and crooks. We know where to place the lights. 79 00:05:00,425 --> 00:05:03,178 You know, you're hit by this big skies, 80 00:05:03,261 --> 00:05:06,514 bright sunshine, this warm, glowing light. 81 00:05:06,598 --> 00:05:10,226 And this beautiful, old stonework. 82 00:05:10,310 --> 00:05:13,396 And that just influences you. You can't help it. 83 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:18,943 It sort of does all the acting for you being in environments like that. 84 00:05:19,027 --> 00:05:21,029 You don't really have to pretend. 85 00:05:22,614 --> 00:05:24,783 Welcome to King's Landing. 86 00:05:28,286 --> 00:05:33,249 The incredible team of people who put this funeral scene together, 87 00:05:33,332 --> 00:05:35,085 from the building of the carriage 88 00:05:35,168 --> 00:05:38,129 and the incredible, beautiful horses 89 00:05:38,213 --> 00:05:40,006 and how well-behaved they are. 90 00:05:40,090 --> 00:05:41,549 The armor that they are covered in. 91 00:05:41,633 --> 00:05:43,551 It just took my breath away when I saw it. 92 00:05:43,635 --> 00:05:45,679 It's absolutely beautiful. 93 00:05:45,762 --> 00:05:47,764 Then, the design of the costumes. 94 00:05:49,099 --> 00:05:52,268 I loved the veils because I shot 95 00:05:52,352 --> 00:05:54,521 all of the funeral at 40 frames per second, 96 00:05:54,604 --> 00:05:57,565 so we could choose which bits we'd use in slow-mo or not. 97 00:05:57,649 --> 00:06:01,027 And so, those veils in slow-mo are absolutely stunning. 98 00:06:01,111 --> 00:06:05,115 And then, I also wanted to sort of fill the air. 99 00:06:05,865 --> 00:06:09,619 So they're throwing hops. So when we have these slow-mo moments, 100 00:06:09,703 --> 00:06:12,914 we've got all these pieces slowly falling through the air. 101 00:06:12,997 --> 00:06:16,042 And there's a sort of sad beauty to that. 102 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:21,840 And then, prosthetics with Jaehaerys, little body of Jaehaerys. 103 00:06:24,634 --> 00:06:27,846 So Jaehaerys was our first scan. 104 00:06:27,929 --> 00:06:31,474 So we had him laid on the table. We did a full-body scan. 105 00:06:31,933 --> 00:06:34,227 We had a very good 3D cleanup person 106 00:06:34,310 --> 00:06:38,732 who made an absolutely beautiful copy of his body, 107 00:06:38,815 --> 00:06:41,818 which we then had milled out by an outside company, 108 00:06:41,901 --> 00:06:44,320 molded and turned into a silicone body. 109 00:06:45,196 --> 00:06:48,158 Once he was a silicone body, we just had to, 110 00:06:48,241 --> 00:06:49,909 we just had to take his head off 111 00:06:49,993 --> 00:06:51,953 and decide how to stitch it back on. 112 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:56,249 So, we went through a few different versions of 113 00:06:56,332 --> 00:07:00,045 sort of medieval stitch reference and these kind of metal loops 114 00:07:00,128 --> 00:07:03,089 that we had to sort of pin the neck together. 115 00:07:03,173 --> 00:07:05,800 We're supposed to see that the head's very obviously stitched on 116 00:07:05,884 --> 00:07:10,638 because the Greens want to demonstrate how barbaric Rhaenyra has been. 117 00:07:10,722 --> 00:07:15,685 Behold the works of Rhaenyra Targaryen! 118 00:07:19,314 --> 00:07:23,026 Defiler of the innocent! 119 00:07:23,109 --> 00:07:27,238 I saw how we could intercut the funeral pieces 120 00:07:27,322 --> 00:07:31,076 with Aegon bludgeoning Blood. 121 00:07:32,118 --> 00:07:36,706 And I started thinking about a drum and the beat of the drum, 122 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:39,709 and then matching the drumbeat to the use of the mace. 123 00:07:44,255 --> 00:07:48,259 So I asked for us to have a drummer at the beginning of the procession, 124 00:07:48,343 --> 00:07:50,845 so that we could use this drumbeat 125 00:07:50,929 --> 00:07:53,556 to sort of increase and sort of get inside Helaena's head, 126 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,518 which is part of the building up of her panic attack. 127 00:07:56,601 --> 00:08:00,313 A curse on Rhaenyra, the monstrous! 128 00:08:07,862 --> 00:08:14,786 Filming with Phia and seein' just, yeah, her grief come to life, 129 00:08:14,869 --> 00:08:16,955 it was really hard. 130 00:08:17,038 --> 00:08:19,249 It was really beautiful and really movin'. 131 00:08:20,667 --> 00:08:22,711 Then we broke and she, like, wiped the tear 132 00:08:22,794 --> 00:08:24,462 and she was like, "I really felt like you were my mummy then." 133 00:08:24,546 --> 00:08:26,131 I was like, "Oh, good. Great!" 134 00:08:28,925 --> 00:08:30,677 It was a funeral, but I had so much fun. 135 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,722 It was so fun. I mean, me and Phia get on really well, 136 00:08:33,804 --> 00:08:36,474 so, like, in between takes, you know, very sad, very sad, 137 00:08:36,599 --> 00:08:42,188 but, like, singin', singin', ya know, show tunes, doin' whatever. 138 00:08:42,272 --> 00:08:44,232 You know, it was quite nice to sit down and be, like, 139 00:08:44,315 --> 00:08:47,402 driven around by horse and cart. 140 00:08:48,653 --> 00:08:50,613 Oh, it's so beautifully filmed. 141 00:08:50,697 --> 00:08:54,284 All the layers of texture, Phia and Olivia's performance. 142 00:08:54,367 --> 00:08:56,036 And I'm thrilled with the outcome of it. 143 00:09:05,545 --> 00:09:07,630 The hanging of the ratcatchers was fun 144 00:09:07,714 --> 00:09:09,215 in a morbid kinda way. 145 00:09:09,299 --> 00:09:13,178 It takes a village, really, to create a scene like that. 146 00:09:13,261 --> 00:09:15,805 We wanted a mixture of prosthetic, fake bodies 147 00:09:15,889 --> 00:09:18,850 and real-life people hanging there. 148 00:09:18,933 --> 00:09:20,352 The bodies are incredible. 149 00:09:20,435 --> 00:09:23,772 Like, I knew it was 50/50, but you've gotta get really close. 150 00:09:23,855 --> 00:09:25,565 I knew one of them was a stuntman 151 00:09:25,648 --> 00:09:28,693 when he got hoicked up and started laughing. 152 00:09:28,777 --> 00:09:30,945 He gave that, he shouldn't have done that on camera. 153 00:09:31,029 --> 00:09:33,031 Very unprofessional. 154 00:09:33,114 --> 00:09:35,325 -How does that feel, sir? -It's really nice. 155 00:09:35,408 --> 00:09:36,910 Really nice. 156 00:09:45,752 --> 00:09:48,922 Rowley and his team had to work out these pulley systems 157 00:09:49,005 --> 00:09:51,466 where people could look like they're hanging. 158 00:09:51,549 --> 00:09:54,260 We made a metal frame that goes over the shoulders. 159 00:09:54,344 --> 00:09:58,139 From these shoulders, we have cables that go down, past the hips, 160 00:09:58,223 --> 00:10:00,517 and we had stirrups that went underneath the feet. 161 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,811 So, basically, for all intents and purposes, 162 00:10:02,894 --> 00:10:05,730 you're standing in your harness, not hanging in your harness. 163 00:10:05,814 --> 00:10:09,317 It just means you can hang there almost indefinitely. 164 00:10:09,401 --> 00:10:11,611 Now, we can push down on these legs. 165 00:10:11,695 --> 00:10:15,782 When you're liftin' here, the energy goes from here 166 00:10:15,865 --> 00:10:18,618 all the way down the straps down to the stirrups at the bottom. 167 00:10:18,702 --> 00:10:22,205 It's like standing up in the air, but we're actually not standing. 168 00:10:22,288 --> 00:10:23,415 It's quite comfortable. 169 00:10:24,374 --> 00:10:28,211 The other thing we did as well was we concealed the wire within rope, 170 00:10:28,294 --> 00:10:30,463 and it looks like the rope's just hanging on the davits, 171 00:10:30,547 --> 00:10:33,216 but we put pulleys inside, to a system, 172 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:35,218 so we can literally lift people up and down 173 00:10:35,301 --> 00:10:37,012 really quickly, really easily. 174 00:10:39,806 --> 00:10:42,809 I think the first thing we did was looking for people that we could lifecast. 175 00:10:44,561 --> 00:10:47,230 So, we would have people in our scanning tent. 176 00:10:47,313 --> 00:10:49,858 We'd have to physically have a noose around their neck 177 00:10:49,941 --> 00:10:53,570 and pull it up, so we'd get all the creasing and wrinkling, 178 00:10:53,653 --> 00:10:54,988 which most people were up for. 179 00:10:55,864 --> 00:10:57,115 I think nobody complained. 180 00:10:57,198 --> 00:10:58,908 Jamie's one of our ratcatchers. 181 00:10:58,992 --> 00:11:01,828 So, you can see where the rope went around there. 182 00:11:01,911 --> 00:11:04,497 And Jamie just gave us a nice dead expression. 183 00:11:05,915 --> 00:11:08,960 And, Danny-- We've kept these because I think 184 00:11:09,044 --> 00:11:10,962 we're probably gonna have to let Danny have this. 185 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,883 It is an honor to be used on a show of this level and scale, 186 00:11:14,966 --> 00:11:17,385 and also to see the intricate detail 187 00:11:17,469 --> 00:11:19,554 and work that the prosthetic team have put into 188 00:11:19,637 --> 00:11:21,473 all of those ratcatchers. 189 00:11:21,556 --> 00:11:24,893 There's a lot of processes involved just to get, you know, the scan done. 190 00:11:24,976 --> 00:11:28,271 Then we mold that and we get a plaster one that we tighten up, 191 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:29,647 mold that into a silicone, 192 00:11:29,731 --> 00:11:31,274 and then paint it, do all the hair work. 193 00:11:31,358 --> 00:11:35,320 And then we've gotta put 'em onto a body. So, yeah, it's fairly convoluted. 194 00:11:36,946 --> 00:11:38,740 It was great, actually, just seeing them all, 195 00:11:38,823 --> 00:11:41,951 all hanging there, finally, kinda finally take it in, you know? 196 00:11:42,035 --> 00:11:44,537 You're like, oh, that looks, that's quite cool. 197 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:46,790 Well done. 198 00:11:53,713 --> 00:11:56,049 Jim Clay is a mad man of all the best kinds. 199 00:11:56,132 --> 00:11:58,426 He outdid himself with Dragonstone, 200 00:11:58,510 --> 00:12:01,221 and we've expanded Dragonstone quite a bit. 201 00:12:01,304 --> 00:12:03,556 Ryan had said that Dragonstone going to feature, 202 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,475 this was very early in the writing process, 203 00:12:05,558 --> 00:12:08,937 so we decided to allocate the big stage to build the set on. 204 00:12:10,146 --> 00:12:12,816 Essentially, in season one with Dragonstone, 205 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:15,902 the main area we see is the Painted Table Room. 206 00:12:15,985 --> 00:12:17,946 That room came originally from "Game of Thrones" 207 00:12:18,029 --> 00:12:20,699 but we felt it was time to expand that world 208 00:12:20,782 --> 00:12:22,826 into a bigger environment. 209 00:12:25,704 --> 00:12:27,539 We wanted it to be one complete set 210 00:12:27,622 --> 00:12:29,541 with these different rooms all interconnected. 211 00:12:30,875 --> 00:12:33,336 It extended from the hall of the Painted Table 212 00:12:33,461 --> 00:12:36,756 into, again, a composite world, 213 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,594 which is the corridors, Rhaenyra's bed chambers, the library set. 214 00:12:41,678 --> 00:12:45,265 So, you have a set that is essentially a collection of many other mini sets, 215 00:12:45,348 --> 00:12:47,308 so you can walk from one room to another 216 00:12:47,392 --> 00:12:50,520 and make the audience feel like you're in a real castle. 217 00:12:50,603 --> 00:12:53,690 It's crazy 'cause you can walk all the way down 218 00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:55,483 and it's fantastic. 219 00:12:56,484 --> 00:12:58,653 Rhaenyra's a very important character 220 00:12:58,737 --> 00:13:01,322 so we wanted a room that sort of really echoed 221 00:13:01,448 --> 00:13:03,616 the uniqueness of her character. 222 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:05,994 Jim really liked these sort of more cathedral-like, 223 00:13:06,077 --> 00:13:07,579 sort of tall windows, 224 00:13:07,662 --> 00:13:10,582 and it's got an interesting sort of asymmetrical shape 225 00:13:10,665 --> 00:13:12,584 that just gives it this interesting kind of quirk. 226 00:13:13,585 --> 00:13:15,628 What we wanted to provide for Rhaenyra 227 00:13:15,712 --> 00:13:18,923 is a sense of the history behind her and her family, 228 00:13:19,007 --> 00:13:20,884 and the history of Dragonstone. 229 00:13:20,967 --> 00:13:22,719 So that big sculpture in her room, 230 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:26,306 it's a temple to the history that's gone before. 231 00:13:26,389 --> 00:13:30,643 It's like the engravings in Egyptian architecture. 232 00:13:40,236 --> 00:13:41,905 The brief of the library set 233 00:13:41,988 --> 00:13:43,448 was it was an enormous scrolls library 234 00:13:43,531 --> 00:13:47,952 containing all of the Valyrian history, essentially in the form of scrolls. 235 00:13:48,036 --> 00:13:50,497 We were just trying to figure out a way to do that shelving, 236 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:53,333 so we came up with the diamond idea, 237 00:13:53,415 --> 00:13:56,795 and that continued as a theme through that room. 238 00:13:56,878 --> 00:13:58,797 And then Claire dressed it with many layers then 239 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,676 of other artifacts and element of Valyrian history. 240 00:14:04,260 --> 00:14:08,973 That was phenomenal to do that set and combining marble, 241 00:14:09,057 --> 00:14:13,687 really beautiful textures of marble that has the oranges running through it, 242 00:14:13,770 --> 00:14:16,523 which I took from doing the Painted Table 243 00:14:16,606 --> 00:14:21,027 because of those rich colors and tones of heat, light, fire. 244 00:14:25,573 --> 00:14:31,329 For every book and document and scroll operates hours of work, 245 00:14:32,288 --> 00:14:33,665 that have been put into these objects. 246 00:14:33,748 --> 00:14:38,336 You have ravens with messages, full messages written on them. 247 00:14:38,420 --> 00:14:43,758 You have full family trees and it's all been handmade. 248 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,929 It's all thought through, every little bit of it, 249 00:14:48,013 --> 00:14:53,977 every piece, every color, every texture, every small item is thought about. 250 00:14:54,060 --> 00:14:56,688 The detail and the craftsmanship that goes into these places, 251 00:14:56,771 --> 00:14:58,857 it's just amazing. 252 00:14:58,940 --> 00:15:03,028 It didn't take any imagination to put yourself where you need to be. 253 00:15:08,158 --> 00:15:09,492 Brother! 254 00:15:11,953 --> 00:15:16,249 The Erryk and Arryk duel is a giant moment in Westerosi history. 255 00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:17,751 Brother against brother. 256 00:15:18,376 --> 00:15:20,795 This is an epic scene because, you know, 257 00:15:20,879 --> 00:15:23,757 the actors, Luke and Elliott, are brothers, are twins, 258 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:25,842 and they love each other deeply. 259 00:15:26,217 --> 00:15:28,178 So much of our action in the show is dragon-based. 260 00:15:28,261 --> 00:15:31,890 It’s fun to see two knights go at it, sword against sword. 261 00:15:33,266 --> 00:15:35,643 That was the first conversation we had when we arrived. 262 00:15:35,727 --> 00:15:39,814 We sat down, we said, "Okay, let's talk about the twins." 263 00:15:39,898 --> 00:15:42,192 And we started thinking about ways of shooting it, 264 00:15:42,275 --> 00:15:43,818 how the fight should look like. 265 00:15:44,694 --> 00:15:48,656 Rowley then did extensive rehearsals and blocking with his team, 266 00:15:48,740 --> 00:15:51,993 which would then be filmed and presented to Clare. 267 00:15:52,077 --> 00:15:53,286 That would be tweaked, 268 00:15:53,370 --> 00:15:56,039 and then Rowley introduced the twins into that. 269 00:15:57,665 --> 00:16:00,126 Those guys performed that entire scene themselves. 270 00:16:00,210 --> 00:16:04,297 They trained for it, they learned it. They got themselves in shape for it. 271 00:16:07,258 --> 00:16:08,551 I couldn't wait, to be fair. 272 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:12,305 Me and El have got martial art backgrounds and we're quite active, physical lads, 273 00:16:12,389 --> 00:16:13,807 so the activeness of it 274 00:16:13,890 --> 00:16:16,393 and throwin' ourselves into it was never a worry really. 275 00:16:16,476 --> 00:16:18,311 It was just making sure that we'd learned the dance 276 00:16:18,395 --> 00:16:22,107 to really throw ourselves at it with the energy it needed. 277 00:16:23,233 --> 00:16:26,820 Really, it was just about gettin' it as tight and as clean as we could, 278 00:16:26,903 --> 00:16:29,656 and then, just comin' on to set on the day and just smashing it out. 279 00:16:29,739 --> 00:16:33,201 Fortunately, we didn't lose any fingers so we did do that right. 280 00:16:34,786 --> 00:16:39,665 We knew from season one how hard Elliott and Luke would work. 281 00:16:41,251 --> 00:16:44,462 And the only thing I wouldn't let 'em do was actually just to smash into the pot. 282 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:47,048 Everything else they did. 283 00:16:47,590 --> 00:16:52,387 Eddie, the stunt guy, bless him, like, he clamored this pot so hard, smashed it. 284 00:16:53,346 --> 00:16:57,600 And rather Eddie than me. He's earned his money today, that's for sure anyway. 285 00:17:05,650 --> 00:17:06,526 Marker. 286 00:17:08,611 --> 00:17:10,905 We all agreed there should be a moment in the fight 287 00:17:10,989 --> 00:17:13,116 where you don't know who's Arryk and who's Erryk. 288 00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:14,951 You really get confused. 289 00:17:15,035 --> 00:17:18,663 So, even with the choreography, if you watch it really carefully, 290 00:17:18,747 --> 00:17:21,665 you'll see that they each get wounded the same. 291 00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:24,627 It's just so that if anyone was to go through it 292 00:17:24,711 --> 00:17:27,589 at any one moment and go, "Right, well, I know he's Erryk 293 00:17:27,672 --> 00:17:31,634 because his leg was cut here or his arm was cut here," 294 00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:35,889 it won't work because, during the fight, they both end up with the same injuries. 295 00:17:35,972 --> 00:17:37,849 Although, we don't telegraph that's what we're doing. 296 00:17:41,061 --> 00:17:42,103 Which? Which is Erryk? 297 00:17:43,438 --> 00:17:45,231 That was the whole point. That kinda what gives it 298 00:17:45,315 --> 00:17:47,692 emotion that you become really neutral about it. 299 00:17:47,776 --> 00:17:49,486 The fight becomes about them. 300 00:17:50,528 --> 00:17:52,989 It's about the fifth time, at least, it's been 301 00:17:53,073 --> 00:17:54,783 -mixed up today on set. -On camera as well. 302 00:17:54,866 --> 00:17:56,493 Just keepin' everybody on their toes. 303 00:18:01,289 --> 00:18:03,249 Who's the better? I suppose it's debatable, 304 00:18:03,333 --> 00:18:05,043 but I think Elliott would probably say him 305 00:18:05,126 --> 00:18:07,087 because I hit him a couple of times with the sword. 306 00:18:07,170 --> 00:18:10,215 Think I did catch him once, so I've gotta say that he's probably better. 307 00:18:10,298 --> 00:18:12,008 If I could tell them apart when they're in their armor, 308 00:18:12,092 --> 00:18:14,427 I might have half a chance of telling you, 309 00:18:14,511 --> 00:18:17,931 but the actual truth of the matter is they're pretty evenly matched. 310 00:18:18,014 --> 00:18:21,226 Luke and Elliott are amazing. 311 00:18:21,309 --> 00:18:23,103 They are so amazing. 312 00:18:23,186 --> 00:18:27,315 That's what I spent the two days saying to anyone who'd listen. 313 00:18:27,399 --> 00:18:31,152 Not only have they done a beautiful job of Rowley's choreography, 314 00:18:31,236 --> 00:18:37,117 but the emotion that they filled it with was such a privilege to watch. 315 00:18:39,828 --> 00:18:42,789 -We were born together. -You parted us! 316 00:18:43,331 --> 00:18:45,333 I still love you, brother. 317 00:18:45,417 --> 00:18:48,712 Seeing the divide between them and seeing the humanity 318 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:51,089 that they both bring to those roles, 319 00:18:51,172 --> 00:18:54,676 I think it really lands in a absolutely brutal way. 320 00:18:55,552 --> 00:18:58,555 It's another awe-inspiring moment directed by Clare. 321 00:18:59,764 --> 00:19:03,184 Clare is such a beautiful spirit. Before we did that scene, 322 00:19:03,268 --> 00:19:05,186 Clare comes up to us and she's like, 323 00:19:05,270 --> 00:19:07,897 I've called the scene "Searching for Love." 324 00:19:07,981 --> 00:19:09,774 And I just thought that was such a sweet thing 325 00:19:09,858 --> 00:19:14,154 because that kind of emotional, personal side of it was so important, 326 00:19:14,237 --> 00:19:16,406 so outside of the fight, we were gonna capture 327 00:19:16,489 --> 00:19:18,742 the right emotion that needed to be captured. 328 00:19:19,868 --> 00:19:24,039 These guys were training from day one in this fight 329 00:19:24,122 --> 00:19:27,250 and I, you know, I thought, what can I bring to this, 330 00:19:27,334 --> 00:19:31,004 you know, in terms of looking at it in an interesting way. 331 00:19:31,087 --> 00:19:32,797 So, throughout the whole scene, 332 00:19:32,881 --> 00:19:35,717 I was looking to find moments of connection 333 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,218 between these two guys. 334 00:19:37,302 --> 00:19:39,512 So, you know, whilst they're striking each other 335 00:19:39,596 --> 00:19:43,058 and their eyes meet, like, what are the questions? 336 00:19:43,141 --> 00:19:46,686 What are they saying to each other, and why is it so hard? 337 00:19:46,770 --> 00:19:49,481 It's because they love each other so deeply. 338 00:19:50,398 --> 00:19:53,568 So, for me, this was a story about brotherly love 339 00:19:53,651 --> 00:19:54,986 like no other.