1 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:09,134 I was running all day with Seasmoke. 2 00:00:09,134 --> 00:00:11,261 Obviously, there is an element of "anything can go wrong" 3 00:00:11,261 --> 00:00:12,637 but it doesn't, it won't. 4 00:00:13,138 --> 00:00:14,973 Very good Health and Safety on "House of the Dragon." 5 00:00:16,016 --> 00:00:17,684 I can't believe they got away with that. 6 00:00:19,227 --> 00:00:22,147 I was so lucky to watch it firsthand. 7 00:00:22,147 --> 00:00:23,857 - (grunts) - (yells) 8 00:00:24,149 --> 00:00:26,818 We're always ready for whatever they're gonna throw at us. 9 00:00:27,694 --> 00:00:30,613 I'm a Targaryen, baby... ya know? 10 00:00:30,613 --> 00:00:33,658 (epic music playing) 11 00:00:47,255 --> 00:00:49,507 (music fades out) 12 00:00:53,678 --> 00:00:56,348 Paul Slavin: When I got my script and I realized that 13 00:00:56,348 --> 00:00:57,849 Paddy was in two of my scenes, 14 00:00:57,849 --> 00:00:59,976 I was, I was really thrilled by that. 15 00:01:00,518 --> 00:01:03,146 Viserys Targaryen: Did you say it? 16 00:01:03,146 --> 00:01:05,231 "The Heir for a Day." 17 00:01:05,231 --> 00:01:07,859 Ryan Condal: I love Paddy, I really do, and I miss him terribly, 18 00:01:07,859 --> 00:01:09,361 and I miss what he brought to the show 19 00:01:09,361 --> 00:01:10,570 and also to the set. 20 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:12,238 Uh, the things you don't see on camera. 21 00:01:12,238 --> 00:01:13,656 Have you got your pictures? 22 00:01:13,656 --> 00:01:14,991 - Thank you, love. - Lovely. 23 00:01:14,991 --> 00:01:17,035 ♪ 24 00:01:19,245 --> 00:01:22,582 Ryan had hinted at me coming back and I was like, 25 00:01:22,582 --> 00:01:24,584 "Well, how you gonna manage that one?" 26 00:01:24,584 --> 00:01:26,544 And the first day that I came to set, 27 00:01:26,544 --> 00:01:28,588 there were actually people 28 00:01:28,588 --> 00:01:30,215 when I arrived, who were a bit like, wow, 29 00:01:30,215 --> 00:01:32,258 you know, you-you could feel this reaction like, 30 00:01:32,258 --> 00:01:33,677 "The king's here, the king's here!" 31 00:01:33,677 --> 00:01:35,720 It was kind of odd, really. 32 00:01:36,638 --> 00:01:39,224 And seeing these giant statues, now you're dead. 33 00:01:39,224 --> 00:01:41,559 You're just this giant carving. 34 00:01:41,559 --> 00:01:44,062 Well, I'd walked past it about 20 times, 35 00:01:44,062 --> 00:01:47,190 and then I just sort of caught it and went, "Whoa!" 36 00:01:47,899 --> 00:01:50,610 I told my wife about this and, uh, she said, 37 00:01:50,610 --> 00:01:52,779 "That's amazing. Can we have it?" 38 00:01:52,779 --> 00:01:55,198 And I said, "No, we can't put that in the garden. 39 00:01:55,198 --> 00:01:57,575 You can see it from fucking space." 40 00:01:58,076 --> 00:02:01,246 Conrad Lindley-Thompson: If we don't build a small version, 41 00:02:01,246 --> 00:02:05,792 then we never have a quick way of working out our mistakes. 42 00:02:05,792 --> 00:02:09,462 And then, when it comes to the big version, we know what to do. 43 00:02:09,462 --> 00:02:12,924 Our chief sculptor got the likeness absolutely perfectly. 44 00:02:12,924 --> 00:02:15,051 And when you're talkin' about working in a piece of 45 00:02:15,051 --> 00:02:17,095 four-meter by four-meter polystyrene, 46 00:02:17,095 --> 00:02:18,430 it isn't always the easiest thing 47 00:02:18,430 --> 00:02:19,764 to get somebody's likeness. 48 00:02:20,265 --> 00:02:21,975 Lindley-Thompson: It's so much more difficult 49 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:24,269 when it has to look like someone 50 00:02:24,269 --> 00:02:26,980 'cause it's easy to have all the features of someone's face 51 00:02:26,980 --> 00:02:29,899 and it not look like them at the same time. (laughs) 52 00:02:29,899 --> 00:02:32,444 So, it was great to actually feel proud 53 00:02:32,444 --> 00:02:35,447 about, (laughing) about something you've worked on. 54 00:02:36,698 --> 00:02:37,949 Andrij Parekh: Daemon's dreams are 55 00:02:37,949 --> 00:02:40,452 an interesting aspect of this season. 56 00:02:41,036 --> 00:02:44,664 I think it was very important for both Paddy and for Matt 57 00:02:44,664 --> 00:02:46,791 to ground the dreams in reality. 58 00:02:48,043 --> 00:02:50,086 (Viserys crying) 59 00:02:50,337 --> 00:02:54,966 There's the second dream where he comes across Viserys 60 00:02:54,966 --> 00:02:58,636 who is mourning Queen Aemma and their son 61 00:02:58,636 --> 00:03:01,389 after the tragic cesarean section of season one. 62 00:03:01,723 --> 00:03:05,352 Why is my son wrapped in a shit rag?! 63 00:03:06,353 --> 00:03:08,188 - That's the scene, innit? - Yeah. 64 00:03:08,188 --> 00:03:11,649 Because the Silent Sisters' set has a wall of candles, 65 00:03:11,649 --> 00:03:13,693 the challenge for us and the art department was 66 00:03:13,693 --> 00:03:16,863 that they needed to be lit all the time, but they would burn out. 67 00:03:16,863 --> 00:03:19,532 So, (laughs) we came in in the morning and Vanja had said, 68 00:03:19,532 --> 00:03:22,452 "Listen, guys, we need the candles lit all day 69 00:03:22,452 --> 00:03:24,371 'cause I'm using them for lighting." 70 00:03:24,371 --> 00:03:26,331 I have to keep the candles going the whole day? 71 00:03:26,331 --> 00:03:27,999 And Vanja was like, "Yeah." 72 00:03:27,999 --> 00:03:30,168 We could only work when all the candles were on, 73 00:03:30,168 --> 00:03:32,045 so we couldn't make any decisions 74 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:33,713 before all the candles were lit. 75 00:03:33,713 --> 00:03:35,965 Condal: So many candles. I-I can't believe that 76 00:03:35,965 --> 00:03:38,009 there's a single candle remaining in England 77 00:03:38,009 --> 00:03:41,012 after our show comes through here like candle locusts. 78 00:03:41,012 --> 00:03:42,305 Vanja Cernjul: I wasn't nervous 79 00:03:42,305 --> 00:03:44,182 because I knew I was in good hands, 80 00:03:44,182 --> 00:03:47,519 so compared to some other fire work that we were doing, 81 00:03:47,519 --> 00:03:49,979 this was, it seems, very safe. 82 00:03:50,188 --> 00:03:52,190 (Paddy goofing around) 83 00:03:52,190 --> 00:03:55,860 Lick the-- Fuckin' hair goes all (whooshes). (laughs) 84 00:03:56,528 --> 00:03:59,531 (tense music playing) 85 00:04:01,282 --> 00:04:02,534 Slavin: We were in Cáceres > 86 00:04:02,534 --> 00:04:04,703 and the exterior of the Grand Sept location 87 00:04:04,703 --> 00:04:06,496 which has a steep staircase 88 00:04:06,496 --> 00:04:08,206 that comes down the front of it. 89 00:04:08,206 --> 00:04:10,208 Rickard Thorne gets Alicent from the Sept 90 00:04:10,208 --> 00:04:12,752 and they come outside and we have a large crowd. 91 00:04:12,752 --> 00:04:14,754 It was definitely one of the most challenging scenes. 92 00:04:14,963 --> 00:04:18,758 Fifteen or 20 horses, 180 extras, 93 00:04:18,758 --> 00:04:22,220 day and a half to shoot it, and the sun's going down. 94 00:04:23,054 --> 00:04:24,848 Slavin: One thing that really stood out to me 95 00:04:24,848 --> 00:04:27,726 was the passion and energy and love 96 00:04:27,726 --> 00:04:29,894 that the background artists work with. 97 00:04:29,894 --> 00:04:31,438 They really take it seriously. 98 00:04:31,438 --> 00:04:33,023 They really want to get into character. 99 00:04:33,023 --> 00:04:34,733 They really want to give you 100%. 100 00:04:34,983 --> 00:04:37,694 We're asking them to create these little stories 101 00:04:37,694 --> 00:04:40,530 within the scene where they're arguing over food, 102 00:04:40,530 --> 00:04:41,948 or they're having conversations, 103 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:43,408 or running in different directions. 104 00:04:43,825 --> 00:04:46,745 Cernjul: One of the early decisions for the riot scene 105 00:04:46,745 --> 00:04:50,415 was that we wanted to shoot it almost like a documentary style, 106 00:04:50,415 --> 00:04:53,418 as if we were reporters hidden inside the crowd 107 00:04:53,418 --> 00:04:55,920 with the handheld cameras and long lens, 108 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,215 which we could only do because the stunt coordination 109 00:04:59,215 --> 00:05:01,760 and the way the crowd was directed was so realistic 110 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,762 that we could employ that approach. 111 00:05:04,179 --> 00:05:07,098 We wanted to stage it with as many cameras as possible, 112 00:05:07,098 --> 00:05:09,267 so she can really run down the stairs 113 00:05:09,267 --> 00:05:11,394 and do all the actions continuously 114 00:05:11,394 --> 00:05:12,729 without us interrupting her 115 00:05:12,729 --> 00:05:14,439 for different angles and different shots. 116 00:05:15,273 --> 00:05:17,984 Waldo Mason: And we wanted to see Alicent bein' pelted with fish 117 00:05:17,984 --> 00:05:19,402 by the starving townspeople. 118 00:05:19,402 --> 00:05:20,904 And, obviously, they couldn't be good fish 119 00:05:20,904 --> 00:05:22,322 otherwise they'd be eatin' 'em. 120 00:05:22,322 --> 00:05:24,324 Cernjul: We were concerned about how many times 121 00:05:24,324 --> 00:05:27,118 we're going to try to hit Olivia with the fish. 122 00:05:27,535 --> 00:05:30,246 Even though it was a prop, it was still nasty. 123 00:05:30,246 --> 00:05:32,791 Mason: We had this methyl cellulose that we mixed 124 00:05:32,791 --> 00:05:35,293 into a kind of pinkish, gray sludge. 125 00:05:35,710 --> 00:05:38,296 Slavin: We then have a nominated stunt performer 126 00:05:38,296 --> 00:05:40,090 who's the fish thrower. 127 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:42,842 Olivia, who's not only a fabulous actress, 128 00:05:42,842 --> 00:05:44,594 but very generous and giving with her performance, 129 00:05:44,594 --> 00:05:47,263 and she's like, "Yeah, just, just hit me with the fish. It's fine." 130 00:05:47,263 --> 00:05:48,932 You know, "Let's not use the double." 131 00:05:48,932 --> 00:05:52,519 Olivia Cooke: By the way, the person who threw the fish 132 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:54,688 used to be a pro cricket player. 133 00:05:55,355 --> 00:05:59,192 When I say my head swiveled 360, 134 00:05:59,192 --> 00:06:00,652 I'm not, I'm not jokin'. 135 00:06:01,820 --> 00:06:04,322 Slavin: We'd done one fish hit and I thought, 136 00:06:04,322 --> 00:06:06,032 "Oh, that was great!" 137 00:06:06,032 --> 00:06:08,159 But I don't think it was quite perfect for Andrij 138 00:06:08,159 --> 00:06:09,953 and he needed it again. 139 00:06:09,953 --> 00:06:12,997 The second hit was, like, really gooey and juicy, 140 00:06:12,997 --> 00:06:15,667 you know, and we got her, so it was worth it. 141 00:06:17,711 --> 00:06:19,838 Rowley Irlam They spent all day running down these steps and I'm like, 142 00:06:19,838 --> 00:06:21,840 "Oh, how many times are we gonna run down these steps?" 143 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:25,218 We ran so much up and down those steps 144 00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:27,512 in the heat, in this dress. 145 00:06:27,512 --> 00:06:31,516 Olivia, there's a bit where she falls down the steps at the end, 146 00:06:31,516 --> 00:06:33,351 and it w-- and it was always planned that 147 00:06:33,351 --> 00:06:35,979 she falls towards us onto a mat. 148 00:06:36,855 --> 00:06:38,690 Cooke: Rowley's just like, "Just fall." 149 00:06:38,690 --> 00:06:39,858 And I'm like, "Yeah, but 150 00:06:39,858 --> 00:06:41,192 I'm running down some steps." 151 00:06:41,192 --> 00:06:42,694 He's like, "Yeah, yeah, you'll be fine. Just fall." 152 00:06:42,694 --> 00:06:43,945 I'm like, "Okay." 153 00:06:44,696 --> 00:06:46,489 Rowley Irlam: We put some decent knee pads on her 154 00:06:46,489 --> 00:06:48,366 and she did a really convincing fall. 155 00:06:48,366 --> 00:06:50,076 I mean, if this acting doesn't work out, 156 00:06:50,076 --> 00:06:51,202 she can come work with us. 157 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,039 It was fine. (chuckles) It was fine. 158 00:06:56,249 --> 00:06:57,584 Irlam: In the middle of the sequence, 159 00:06:57,584 --> 00:07:00,754 we have an elderly man that asks for food, 160 00:07:00,754 --> 00:07:03,882 played by a very seasoned stunt performer called Terry Cade, 161 00:07:03,882 --> 00:07:06,843 who's in his mid-70s and still performing. 162 00:07:06,843 --> 00:07:10,347 He grabs hold of Alicent and gets his hand chopped off 163 00:07:10,347 --> 00:07:11,681 by one of the Kingsguard. 164 00:07:11,681 --> 00:07:12,891 (snaps) This is the trigger 165 00:07:12,891 --> 00:07:15,769 for the crowd to erupt and go crazy. 166 00:07:16,770 --> 00:07:18,897 Slavin: Prosthetics gave us the arm, 167 00:07:18,897 --> 00:07:22,734 and we used that for the arm landing on the floor shot. 168 00:07:22,734 --> 00:07:24,235 We do a shot with a blue sleeve, 169 00:07:24,235 --> 00:07:27,238 we do a shot where Terry physically grabbed Olivia, 170 00:07:27,238 --> 00:07:29,574 and then we did the sword coming down, 171 00:07:29,574 --> 00:07:31,701 but obviously stopping short of Terry's arm. 172 00:07:31,701 --> 00:07:32,786 - director: Action! - (grunts) 173 00:07:32,786 --> 00:07:33,912 (yells) 174 00:07:33,912 --> 00:07:35,789 You have to do a combination of shots 175 00:07:35,789 --> 00:07:38,583 to deliver the final effect for something like that. 176 00:07:38,583 --> 00:07:41,461 The guy having his arm chopped off is this much in the script, 177 00:07:41,461 --> 00:07:43,421 so you're spending a lot of shooting hours 178 00:07:43,421 --> 00:07:45,590 for a very small moment. 179 00:07:47,008 --> 00:07:49,094 Fuckin' escalated quickly, didn't it? 180 00:07:49,094 --> 00:07:51,179 Someone lost his fuckin' arm. 181 00:07:51,763 --> 00:07:53,098 It was really fun. It was really fun. 182 00:07:53,098 --> 00:07:54,766 I'd look back at Phia and we're both runnin', 183 00:07:54,766 --> 00:07:57,686 and she's got this massive smile on her face. 184 00:07:59,646 --> 00:08:01,272 Phia Saban: We'd got the adrenaline rush of 185 00:08:01,272 --> 00:08:03,108 almost like it was like a roller coaster. 186 00:08:03,108 --> 00:08:05,276 Like, every time, I kind of believed it was real 187 00:08:05,276 --> 00:08:06,986 because I think if I had stopped, 188 00:08:06,986 --> 00:08:08,571 I would've been trampled. 189 00:08:08,571 --> 00:08:11,449 It was, (chuckles) like, pretty scary. 190 00:08:11,449 --> 00:08:12,909 But I don't get to, like, 191 00:08:12,909 --> 00:08:16,413 do the running around stuff in this show very much, 192 00:08:16,413 --> 00:08:18,456 so it was really, really fun. 193 00:08:19,457 --> 00:08:21,793 (indistinct singing) 194 00:08:21,793 --> 00:08:24,963 Prosthetics, stunts, Olivia's contribution. 195 00:08:24,963 --> 00:08:26,798 That was a really good team effort. 196 00:08:27,340 --> 00:08:28,800 Parekh: You go through all the emotions 197 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,343 in a day as a director. 198 00:08:30,343 --> 00:08:32,929 Hopefully, you leave sort of relieved or satisfied, 199 00:08:32,929 --> 00:08:35,765 and it, it was definitely that feeling at the end of that. 200 00:08:35,765 --> 00:08:39,352 Okay, folks, so, we're gonna break for lunch here now. Thank you. 201 00:08:40,687 --> 00:08:42,897 (hair clippers buzzing) 202 00:08:45,233 --> 00:08:49,029 Parekh: Alyn and Addam of Hull, the bastard sons of Corlys, 203 00:08:49,029 --> 00:08:51,364 and they have very different attitudes about Corlys. 204 00:08:51,364 --> 00:08:54,034 Alyn's the one that has the Targaryen blood, 205 00:08:54,034 --> 00:08:57,162 the silver hair that he needs to shave every day 206 00:08:57,162 --> 00:08:59,289 so that no one else recognizes it. 207 00:08:59,289 --> 00:09:02,667 Cernjul: The challenge is that, uh, person can shave only one time 208 00:09:02,667 --> 00:09:06,004 before we have to wait for a couple of months for the hair to grow. 209 00:09:06,004 --> 00:09:07,964 Abubakar Salim: I remember reading the scene and thinking, 210 00:09:07,964 --> 00:09:09,299 how are they gonna do this? 211 00:09:09,299 --> 00:09:10,342 When I read the script, I was like, 212 00:09:10,342 --> 00:09:11,801 "Oh, this is gonna have to-- 213 00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:13,553 ya know, how are we gonna make this work?" 214 00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:15,388 Slavin: The haircutting scene with Alyn of Hull 215 00:09:15,388 --> 00:09:17,515 was probably one of the trickiest scenes 216 00:09:17,515 --> 00:09:19,184 that we had in the episode. 217 00:09:19,184 --> 00:09:21,186 I think we had as many meetings about the riot in Spain 218 00:09:21,186 --> 00:09:23,396 as we did about the haircut. (laughs) 219 00:09:24,105 --> 00:09:26,524 Salim: The hair and makeup team here are just on another level, 220 00:09:26,524 --> 00:09:29,194 and they came up with this really cool idea 221 00:09:29,194 --> 00:09:33,365 of, essentially, spraying my head with white hair, 222 00:09:33,365 --> 00:09:37,327 but it would stick on end and we'd get this dull razor 223 00:09:37,327 --> 00:09:39,871 that allowed me to shave it with water and take it off, 224 00:09:39,871 --> 00:09:41,539 and it looks incredible. 225 00:09:41,539 --> 00:09:43,583 Slavin: We ended up with a double 226 00:09:43,583 --> 00:09:46,044 who was actually one of the props department, 227 00:09:46,044 --> 00:09:50,006 who was a really good match for Abubakar and-and the hair. 228 00:09:50,006 --> 00:09:52,384 Rosalia Culora: Obviously, we had lovely Steph who's a crew member 229 00:09:52,384 --> 00:09:54,427 and he was just walkin', mindin' his own business. 230 00:09:54,427 --> 00:09:56,179 I think he was getting scanned by Waldo 231 00:09:56,179 --> 00:09:58,765 to be one of the ratcatchers, I believe. 232 00:09:58,765 --> 00:10:01,726 Cernjul: Every time you see somebody cut their hair, it was a double. 233 00:10:01,726 --> 00:10:03,728 Salim: I've never had to shave my head in my life, 234 00:10:03,728 --> 00:10:07,232 but this is something that Alyn has done religiously, every day, 235 00:10:07,232 --> 00:10:10,860 and so, I had to make it look like it was a ritualistic act. 236 00:10:11,611 --> 00:10:14,197 We even got one of our barbers, as well, to come in 237 00:10:14,197 --> 00:10:16,074 to tell us how to actually properly shave the head. 238 00:10:16,074 --> 00:10:18,451 I'm-I'm imaginin' that the blade will be wet, right? 239 00:10:18,451 --> 00:10:20,954 So, I'll be wettin' the blade and then comin' back 240 00:10:20,954 --> 00:10:22,956 - and then comin' down-- - No, you wet your hair. 241 00:10:22,956 --> 00:10:24,958 I'd wet the hair, so the hair would be wet. 242 00:10:24,958 --> 00:10:27,585 And so, to have the right people around to tell me that, 243 00:10:27,585 --> 00:10:30,714 I didn't have to really think about the act of it, 244 00:10:30,714 --> 00:10:32,924 all I had to think about was the scene and what I was doing. 245 00:10:32,924 --> 00:10:34,968 Culora: We cut from Abu and we actually used 246 00:10:34,968 --> 00:10:36,136 a close-up of Steph, 247 00:10:36,136 --> 00:10:38,972 and then we used Mark as the hand 248 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:40,807 to use the cut throat. 249 00:10:40,807 --> 00:10:43,059 So it involved, like, four different people 250 00:10:43,059 --> 00:10:44,561 to achieve this one look. 251 00:10:44,561 --> 00:10:46,312 So, I feel like, after this, 252 00:10:46,312 --> 00:10:48,273 I won't be able to walk around with my hands up 253 00:10:48,273 --> 00:10:49,649 because everyone's gonna notice it and be like, 254 00:10:49,649 --> 00:10:51,776 "Hey, those are the hands!" (laughs) 255 00:10:51,776 --> 00:10:54,154 Like, even me as Clinton, I'm like, "Why would you shave 256 00:10:54,154 --> 00:10:56,156 that beautiful silver hair?" 257 00:10:56,156 --> 00:10:59,492 If I had that hair, I'd be rockin' it every day. 258 00:10:59,492 --> 00:11:02,620 - Stand up straight. - Yeah, you're with your f-- your dad. 259 00:11:05,457 --> 00:11:08,460 (tense music playing) 260 00:11:10,128 --> 00:11:12,797 Slavin: Rhaenyra, in her desperation to have a dragonrider, 261 00:11:12,797 --> 00:11:15,133 goes into the archives in the Valyrian temple 262 00:11:15,133 --> 00:11:17,761 and finds out that Darklyn's ancestry is connected 263 00:11:17,761 --> 00:11:19,512 with the Targaryen ancestry, 264 00:11:19,512 --> 00:11:21,514 and therefore, thinks that it's a good idea for Darklyn 265 00:11:21,514 --> 00:11:24,684 to potentially be paired with Seasmoke as a rider. 266 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:28,813 Condal: We have the sense that Seasmoke is missing his bond. 267 00:11:28,813 --> 00:11:31,691 That's why Rhaenyra seizes upon that idea that, 268 00:11:31,691 --> 00:11:34,861 perhaps, he's lonely to try to give him a companion 269 00:11:34,861 --> 00:11:36,654 in Ser Steffon Darklyn, 270 00:11:36,654 --> 00:11:38,990 who becomes Ser Steffon Sparklin'. 271 00:11:38,990 --> 00:11:40,241 (roars) 272 00:11:43,161 --> 00:11:46,456 Slavin: The Dragonmont cavern went through a lot of process 273 00:11:46,456 --> 00:11:47,832 in terms of getting the right space, 274 00:11:47,832 --> 00:11:49,668 getting the right height for the gantry, 275 00:11:49,668 --> 00:11:51,628 getting the right extraction systems in place 276 00:11:51,628 --> 00:11:52,962 so that we could use the fire. 277 00:11:52,962 --> 00:11:54,839 So technically and logistically, 278 00:11:54,839 --> 00:11:56,633 there was a lot to do. 279 00:11:56,633 --> 00:11:58,301 Condal: Dragonmont is a big network of caves, 280 00:11:58,301 --> 00:11:59,969 so what do you build that connects it 281 00:11:59,969 --> 00:12:01,638 to the human space of Dragonstone? 282 00:12:01,638 --> 00:12:03,640 This gantry could exist in this giant cave 283 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,016 and dragons could come up to it, 284 00:12:05,016 --> 00:12:07,227 and that's how you step on and step off. 285 00:12:07,227 --> 00:12:09,562 Parekh: This set, built by Jim Clay, 286 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:12,190 is 15 feet, 5 meters off the ground. 287 00:12:12,190 --> 00:12:14,901 Everyone at the beginning was questioning why it was built so high. 288 00:12:14,901 --> 00:12:18,530 And then you stand on it and you understand why it's built that way. 289 00:12:18,530 --> 00:12:19,864 It's scary. 290 00:12:19,864 --> 00:12:21,700 Cernjul: We were so high up from the ground 291 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:24,077 that we had to worry not only about the fire, 292 00:12:24,077 --> 00:12:28,039 but also about nobody falling off the plinth. 293 00:12:28,039 --> 00:12:31,042 It was the first time Rhaenyra attempted this, 294 00:12:31,042 --> 00:12:33,253 and we didn't know what was going to happen to Darklyn, 295 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:37,048 so the idea was to be as shocked and surprised 296 00:12:37,048 --> 00:12:39,217 with his death as Rhaenyra would be. 297 00:12:39,217 --> 00:12:41,219 (shouting in High Valyrian) 298 00:12:45,557 --> 00:12:48,727 Anthony Flanagan: So, what do you reckon to this lookin' 299 00:12:48,727 --> 00:12:50,854 anything like me, do you think? 300 00:12:50,854 --> 00:12:52,522 I think they've got the nose. 301 00:12:53,231 --> 00:12:56,693 Maybe it's a bit bigger there than, than here. 302 00:12:56,693 --> 00:12:59,195 Mason: Stunt masks provide a protection for the stunt guy, 303 00:12:59,195 --> 00:13:01,072 which means a thickness of silicone, 304 00:13:01,072 --> 00:13:03,116 which means that we're never gonna be able 305 00:13:03,116 --> 00:13:04,909 to make it look convincingly like a person 306 00:13:04,909 --> 00:13:06,870 who hasn't been attacked by bees. 307 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,914 Do your best Michael Myers impression. 308 00:13:09,914 --> 00:13:11,750 Then, to be honest, like, once they're up in flames, 309 00:13:11,750 --> 00:13:13,251 all you're really aware of is 310 00:13:13,251 --> 00:13:16,254 that he's got black hair and he's got two ears, 311 00:13:16,254 --> 00:13:19,049 and the rest of it is down to your imagination. 312 00:13:19,049 --> 00:13:20,258 Irlam: On season eight of "Thrones," 313 00:13:20,258 --> 00:13:22,260 we learned that with prosthetics on, 314 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:24,220 it felt like havin' a fire mask 315 00:13:24,220 --> 00:13:25,972 'cause the silicone would protect you. 316 00:13:25,972 --> 00:13:28,099 So this year we went, "I know what we'll do." 317 00:13:28,099 --> 00:13:30,727 We'll assume that people have been fully engulfed initially, 318 00:13:30,727 --> 00:13:33,229 so they would be burnt and have lost their hair. 319 00:13:33,229 --> 00:13:34,981 So, we got Waldo and his team 320 00:13:34,981 --> 00:13:37,817 to make prosthetic masks that covered the ears. 321 00:13:37,817 --> 00:13:39,444 And it's the ears that always get burnt 322 00:13:39,444 --> 00:13:41,780 when you do a burn without a mask on, 323 00:13:41,780 --> 00:13:43,448 that go 'round the back of the neck, 324 00:13:43,448 --> 00:13:46,910 so that we could literally have people on fire 325 00:13:46,910 --> 00:13:48,620 without masks on, but stood up. 326 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:50,955 - That was a bit innovative for us. - director: And action! 327 00:13:50,955 --> 00:13:53,249 I think, I think that it's al-- The knife's already on there. 328 00:13:53,249 --> 00:13:55,126 And then you go, (mimics slice), like that. 329 00:13:55,126 --> 00:13:57,337 That's prosthetics on a prosthetic. 330 00:13:57,337 --> 00:13:59,464 So we have to stick the neck on first 331 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:02,425 with the tube, that wound, running down his back, 332 00:14:02,425 --> 00:14:05,011 and out the bottom of his trousers on a pump, 333 00:14:05,011 --> 00:14:07,263 and then, while he's on fire, he has to find his mark 334 00:14:07,263 --> 00:14:08,515 and cut that 335 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:10,642 and then, fall to the floor 336 00:14:10,642 --> 00:14:12,852 and all this sort of gushes out. 337 00:14:13,353 --> 00:14:15,772 That was Levan. It's one more piece for us to stick on, 338 00:14:15,772 --> 00:14:18,817 but Levan has to hit all these marks while he's on fire 339 00:14:18,817 --> 00:14:21,069 'cause, obviously, he can't see what he's doin'. 340 00:14:23,738 --> 00:14:25,031 Yeah, props to Levan. 341 00:14:25,031 --> 00:14:27,867 Levan, are you okay? Lee, you alright? 342 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:30,995 Having thought that I was up for most things, 343 00:14:30,995 --> 00:14:32,956 having watched it, I thought, 344 00:14:32,956 --> 00:14:36,626 "Oh, it turns out, I actually don't want to be set on fire." 345 00:14:36,626 --> 00:14:38,878 Mason: We provide the fire gel. 346 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:40,839 We make it ourselves. 347 00:14:40,839 --> 00:14:41,881 It's almost like a protection. 348 00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:43,216 They have their own protection on, 349 00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:46,136 but just the top burns rather than the costume. 350 00:14:46,136 --> 00:14:47,387 Joanna Lynch: They put the gel on underneath 351 00:14:47,387 --> 00:14:49,347 and then on top of the costume, 352 00:14:49,347 --> 00:14:53,560 and then special effects paint them up with IPA and alcohol and off they go. 353 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:58,565 We ignite them with a flamethrower, which is scary. 354 00:15:02,444 --> 00:15:05,030 We used a podium one, which is basically a powder, 355 00:15:05,030 --> 00:15:06,906 like a, a pollen, 356 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:09,367 and we fire that out and ignite it at the same time, 357 00:15:09,367 --> 00:15:12,203 and it burns very clean, 358 00:15:12,203 --> 00:15:14,914 very yellow, and it's very limited. 359 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:16,332 You can't be panicky, though, can you, 360 00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:17,542 'cause it's not a good look. 361 00:15:17,542 --> 00:15:19,336 You gotta be really positive and like, 362 00:15:19,336 --> 00:15:22,255 "Yeah, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be fine and..." 363 00:15:22,255 --> 00:15:23,173 (laughs) 364 00:15:23,715 --> 00:15:25,050 It's just alien to do that. 365 00:15:25,050 --> 00:15:26,718 It's alien to squirt somebody 366 00:15:26,718 --> 00:15:29,054 with ignited gas, isn't it? 367 00:15:29,054 --> 00:15:30,430 But you've got to plan it, 368 00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:32,891 you've got to build it, you've gotta show Rowley. 369 00:15:32,891 --> 00:15:34,768 We have dummies that we dress up, 370 00:15:34,768 --> 00:15:38,229 put them there, squirt them on, show him how it burns. 371 00:15:38,229 --> 00:15:41,399 He likes it, he doesn't like it. 372 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:43,443 And then, we-we go to the real people. 373 00:15:43,443 --> 00:15:44,652 director: Action! 374 00:15:45,612 --> 00:15:48,865 Irlam (shouting): One, two, three, 375 00:15:48,865 --> 00:15:51,743 four, five, six, 376 00:15:51,743 --> 00:15:55,789 seven, eight, nine, 10! 377 00:15:55,789 --> 00:15:57,457 Out, out, out! 378 00:15:59,042 --> 00:16:01,127 You have to be conscious of when you put people out 379 00:16:01,127 --> 00:16:05,757 because you can blow burning stuff off them onto other people 380 00:16:05,757 --> 00:16:06,966 because they're not out. 381 00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:08,385 They would burn for a lot longer. 382 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,470 And then we put some cold towels on them 383 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:12,305 and stuff like that just to keep 'em cool. 384 00:16:12,305 --> 00:16:14,766 But if they do that, we know we're alright, you know? 385 00:16:15,183 --> 00:16:18,228 Definitely won't be becomin' a stuntman anytime soon. 386 00:16:18,228 --> 00:16:19,979 That is mad. 387 00:16:19,979 --> 00:16:21,648 Felt the heat from there. 388 00:16:23,692 --> 00:16:25,944 Irlam: It's always better to do things in camera. 389 00:16:25,944 --> 00:16:27,612 But fire is one of the things, 390 00:16:27,612 --> 00:16:31,116 just because how it reacts to wind and movement, 391 00:16:31,116 --> 00:16:33,952 it's really hard, 392 00:16:33,952 --> 00:16:37,288 and I don't think it's yet convincing for that to be computer generated, 393 00:16:37,288 --> 00:16:39,833 certainly not in its entirety. 394 00:16:39,833 --> 00:16:43,920 You can enhance, but I don't think you could replace real flame. 395 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,672 Not just yet. Maybe 20 years, 396 00:16:45,672 --> 00:16:47,674 we won't be setting people on fire anymore, 397 00:16:47,674 --> 00:16:51,344 but right now, thank goodness, we can do it better. 398 00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:56,307 ♪ 399 00:16:56,307 --> 00:16:58,977 Top man. Thank you, Lev. Great work. 400 00:16:58,977 --> 00:17:01,021 (indistinct chatter) 401 00:17:03,815 --> 00:17:05,817 ♪ 402 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:09,988 Parekh: Addam is walking home after a day of fishing 403 00:17:09,988 --> 00:17:12,490 and there's a chase scene between him and Seasmoke. 404 00:17:13,366 --> 00:17:14,826 (roars) 405 00:17:15,827 --> 00:17:17,954 Thomas Horton: You look at a storyboard and go, "That's not so bad." 406 00:17:17,954 --> 00:17:19,622 And then you go, "Oh, hang on, it's still going. 407 00:17:19,622 --> 00:17:21,291 "Oh, it's-it's-- Oh, it's still-- 408 00:17:21,291 --> 00:17:24,502 The shot's still going, oh, the shot's still going." 409 00:17:24,502 --> 00:17:26,796 Irlam: We planned the route, as you do always, 410 00:17:26,796 --> 00:17:28,798 as to what does the background look like. 411 00:17:28,798 --> 00:17:31,217 And often, it's the route that's the most uncomfortable 412 00:17:31,217 --> 00:17:33,470 (laughing) or-or awkward for the performer. 413 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,557 Parekh: Clinton, fantastic actor, great athlete. 414 00:17:37,557 --> 00:17:39,351 He did all his own stunts. 415 00:17:39,351 --> 00:17:40,685 We provided him with a stunt double 416 00:17:40,685 --> 00:17:42,187 and he was like, "No, I'm doing this." 417 00:17:42,187 --> 00:17:44,022 When an actor wants to do their own stunts, 418 00:17:44,022 --> 00:17:46,483 I'm at the monitor going like. 419 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:48,693 Cernjul: Clinton was so exciting 420 00:17:48,693 --> 00:17:51,571 and he was in such great physical shape. 421 00:17:51,571 --> 00:17:54,824 We tried to have long takes and long choreography, 422 00:17:54,824 --> 00:17:57,243 and for somebody to repeat that a couple of times, 423 00:17:57,243 --> 00:17:59,829 running up the hill, running down the hill, 424 00:17:59,829 --> 00:18:01,373 could've only done it with him. 425 00:18:01,373 --> 00:18:02,999 I don't know how we'd do it with another actor, 426 00:18:02,999 --> 00:18:05,293 and he was happy to do it every time. 427 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:10,757 Shootin' that scene with Seasmoke 428 00:18:10,757 --> 00:18:12,550 was a dream come true for me. 429 00:18:12,550 --> 00:18:16,346 As a kid, what did we all imagine when we were, like, playing, 430 00:18:16,346 --> 00:18:19,265 you know, make-believe? It's always a dragon. 431 00:18:19,265 --> 00:18:23,061 Irlam: We have this bit at the end where he falls down this rock face. 432 00:18:23,061 --> 00:18:24,854 So it was a real rock face, which we covered 433 00:18:24,854 --> 00:18:27,816 with a fake rubber rock face, and he did a great job. 434 00:18:28,066 --> 00:18:30,902 It's always better if it's in camera and it's the real person. 435 00:18:30,902 --> 00:18:33,363 Slavin: Visual effects cover the dragon overhead. 436 00:18:33,363 --> 00:18:34,906 We had then picked him up on a drone, 437 00:18:34,906 --> 00:18:36,366 so we built a drone shot in 438 00:18:36,366 --> 00:18:38,284 where he runs through the woods and we track him. 439 00:18:38,284 --> 00:18:40,745 And then, of course, we had some local mortar cannons 440 00:18:40,745 --> 00:18:43,039 that shot debris and tree branches. 441 00:18:43,581 --> 00:18:45,208 So we had some physical effects. 442 00:18:45,208 --> 00:18:47,252 When the dragon comes crashing through the trees, 443 00:18:47,252 --> 00:18:49,087 we had something to blast through the shot, 444 00:18:49,087 --> 00:18:53,925 so that we don't rely completely on the digital aspect of that. 445 00:18:53,925 --> 00:18:56,428 And then, of course, when the dragon comes face to face with Clinton, 446 00:18:56,428 --> 00:18:58,096 that's when VFX were reintroduced, 447 00:18:58,096 --> 00:18:59,931 so that we can have that moment where 448 00:18:59,931 --> 00:19:02,267 Clinton and the dragon are nose to nose. 449 00:19:05,186 --> 00:19:06,563 When we storyboarded the sequence, 450 00:19:06,563 --> 00:19:08,231 and we previs'd it, and we budgeted it, 451 00:19:08,231 --> 00:19:11,192 we're like, "Okay, i-it's big," and then we shot it. 452 00:19:11,443 --> 00:19:14,404 It went amazingly well, but when we got into post, 453 00:19:14,404 --> 00:19:17,615 it was so good (laughs) that the scene doubled in size, 454 00:19:17,615 --> 00:19:19,492 so we got twice as many dragon shots. 455 00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:23,913 And can I, can I tell you, you know, each dragon shot is very expensive. 456 00:19:23,913 --> 00:19:26,291 I mean, it's like owning a dragon. 457 00:19:26,291 --> 00:19:28,001 The scene is incredibly dynamic. 458 00:19:28,001 --> 00:19:30,628 We shot it in a very similar way 459 00:19:30,628 --> 00:19:32,422 that we shot the Steffon Darklyn moment 460 00:19:32,422 --> 00:19:34,007 just before he's burnt. 461 00:19:34,007 --> 00:19:36,176 At the moment that Seasmoke kinda goes in for Addam, 462 00:19:36,176 --> 00:19:37,302 we cut out of it 463 00:19:38,887 --> 00:19:42,474 leaving the audience wondering what's gonna happen next. 464 00:19:42,474 --> 00:19:44,476 (dramatic sting)