1 00:00:06,339 --> 00:00:08,717 It felt like we were in this other world. 2 00:00:09,759 --> 00:00:12,554 There are dangerous pitfalls and sinkholes. 3 00:00:13,013 --> 00:00:15,390 I can handle mud wrestling, but singing was the worst. 4 00:00:15,473 --> 00:00:17,267 There were incredible challenges shooting there. 5 00:00:17,350 --> 00:00:19,853 I said to Geeta, "This is an impossible shot." 6 00:00:20,603 --> 00:00:22,981 Every time it happens, I was going, "How is that working?" 7 00:00:23,064 --> 00:00:24,274 Bring on the birds! 8 00:00:24,774 --> 00:00:26,443 It's about to kick off. 9 00:00:26,901 --> 00:00:28,403 Come on, let's go. 10 00:00:54,346 --> 00:00:58,183 The cast has found their characters this season 11 00:00:58,266 --> 00:01:00,852 in a way that is really fun to see. 12 00:01:00,935 --> 00:01:03,063 They've been able to elevate the scenes 13 00:01:03,146 --> 00:01:04,730 that were already wonderful. 14 00:01:05,522 --> 00:01:07,317 We have five directors this season. 15 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,944 They are all incredibly talented. 16 00:01:10,028 --> 00:01:12,364 Every director brings their own perspectives 17 00:01:12,447 --> 00:01:15,950 and it's been really fun to dance with them each episode. 18 00:01:17,077 --> 00:01:19,954 Every day I think the amount of work that goes in. 19 00:01:20,038 --> 00:01:21,539 Thank you to everyone who does work on this show 20 00:01:21,623 --> 00:01:24,167 because it is done with such grandeur. 21 00:01:25,210 --> 00:01:28,254 Everyone is so skilled in their own department 22 00:01:28,338 --> 00:01:30,298 that I just feel like the luckiest girl in the world 23 00:01:30,382 --> 00:01:33,176 to really be able to work with these people. 24 00:01:33,801 --> 00:01:38,223 Two years in, the sheer scope of it still stuns me. 25 00:01:38,306 --> 00:01:40,475 There's not an element of the day 26 00:01:40,558 --> 00:01:42,560 that doesn't become a pinch me moment. 27 00:01:42,644 --> 00:01:45,939 It's just turned into something bigger and grander 28 00:01:46,021 --> 00:01:47,607 than I ever could've imagined. 29 00:01:48,274 --> 00:01:51,110 It's been incredible. What a story to tell. 30 00:01:57,658 --> 00:02:01,621 When Tyland Lannister goes to the Tyroshi pavilion, 31 00:02:01,705 --> 00:02:05,667 we needed to create a new world for him to feel uncomfortable in. 32 00:02:07,168 --> 00:02:09,713 It's an opportunity for us to explore this new world 33 00:02:09,795 --> 00:02:11,673 that we haven't been to yet. 34 00:02:11,756 --> 00:02:14,050 Geeta really seized that opportunity with both hands 35 00:02:14,134 --> 00:02:18,013 and got everybody around the table to really build that world. 36 00:02:18,513 --> 00:02:20,223 There was a good bit of concepting 37 00:02:20,306 --> 00:02:22,726 to make it feel like it was one cohesive world. 38 00:02:23,435 --> 00:02:26,396 The exotic location is to feel that this is a different culture 39 00:02:26,478 --> 00:02:28,648 than the Westerosi culture that we're used to seeing. 40 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:30,775 For the Tyroshi pavilion, 41 00:02:30,859 --> 00:02:34,070 I was trying to strike a completely new vernacular for that. 42 00:02:34,154 --> 00:02:37,699 It's another look at different architecture in the show. 43 00:02:39,034 --> 00:02:41,327 Ryan and I started thinking about all the things 44 00:02:41,411 --> 00:02:43,579 that a Westerner would feel uncomfortable around. 45 00:02:43,663 --> 00:02:47,459 If you have to take off your shoes, if you have to sit on the floor, 46 00:02:47,542 --> 00:02:49,836 if there are wild animals around you. 47 00:02:49,918 --> 00:02:55,258 We started trying to create a culture and put Tyland in it, 48 00:02:55,341 --> 00:02:57,177 make him uncomfortable. 49 00:02:58,011 --> 00:03:00,597 Geeta wanted a really wide shot 50 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,558 introducing this place in this really epic landscape. 51 00:03:04,225 --> 00:03:07,437 The opening starts where they've been sitting there for hours. 52 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,315 It was Geeta's idea that we come in via a monkey. 53 00:03:10,398 --> 00:03:11,733 We had a monkey. Yeah, Rosie. 54 00:03:11,816 --> 00:03:14,527 The one issue was Jefferson doesn't like monkeys. 55 00:03:14,611 --> 00:03:17,739 I went up to the monkey handler and I said, "Is the monkey gonna be okay?" 56 00:03:17,822 --> 00:03:19,157 And she said, "Oh yeah, she's lovely. 57 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,702 "But if you look her in the eye, she'll bite you in the face." 58 00:03:23,745 --> 00:03:24,871 That monkey did not listen. 59 00:03:24,954 --> 00:03:27,457 There was one point where Rosie started veering off towards Jefferson. 60 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:28,958 Jefferson could hear the handler saying, 61 00:03:29,042 --> 00:03:30,251 "No, Rosie, no, Rosie, no, Rosie!" 62 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:32,962 So survived that, but that was intimidating. 63 00:03:35,465 --> 00:03:39,386 Admiral Lohar, this is Tyland Lannister. 64 00:03:40,428 --> 00:03:43,430 Well met, Lord Tywin. 65 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:45,767 It's Tyland. 66 00:03:46,976 --> 00:03:49,145 Sharako is the commander of this fleet. 67 00:03:49,228 --> 00:03:51,314 She feels like one of these very colorful characters 68 00:03:51,398 --> 00:03:53,566 ripped right out of the pages of George's books. 69 00:03:53,650 --> 00:03:56,528 They really listened to me and asked, "Do you have ideas for the character?" 70 00:03:56,611 --> 00:03:58,238 So I said, "Yeah, I'd love to take her in this dimension 71 00:03:58,321 --> 00:04:00,031 "that she's, like, a female Blackbeard. 72 00:04:00,115 --> 00:04:01,616 "Like, what if I was just absolutely, like, 73 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:04,327 covered in knives, just had all this stuff?" 74 00:04:04,911 --> 00:04:08,748 We made a nice ornate sword which would sit on her hip 75 00:04:08,832 --> 00:04:10,375 and eight different knives, 76 00:04:10,458 --> 00:04:12,794 and then it was working closely with 77 00:04:12,877 --> 00:04:15,964 the costume department as to where they would sit on the body. 78 00:04:16,047 --> 00:04:18,632 That had to be built into the look. 79 00:04:18,716 --> 00:04:21,928 She has a waistcoat piece and that's got all the trinkets, 80 00:04:22,012 --> 00:04:25,056 coins, and things that she's pillaged. 81 00:04:26,891 --> 00:04:30,145 I will not sail with a man who cannot best me. 82 00:04:31,021 --> 00:04:31,980 At what? 83 00:04:34,649 --> 00:04:36,943 I put him through absolute hell. 84 00:04:38,862 --> 00:04:40,905 I can handle mud wrestling, but singing was the worst. 85 00:04:41,239 --> 00:04:44,993 Cross the Narrow Sea to the ladies of King's Landing 86 00:04:45,076 --> 00:04:47,620 So it kinda worked. They're like, "You really can't sing." 87 00:04:48,163 --> 00:04:50,081 Well done, Lord Tyrod! 88 00:04:50,832 --> 00:04:53,626 And Jefferson is a natural comedic actor. 89 00:04:53,710 --> 00:04:57,630 Having him reacting to the bonkersness around him is really enjoyable. 90 00:04:57,714 --> 00:04:59,716 On reflection at the end he looks back, you know, 91 00:04:59,799 --> 00:05:01,217 "Wow, that was a hell of a trip." 92 00:05:08,016 --> 00:05:11,519 The banquet scene in Dragonstone between Rhaenyra and her dragonriders, 93 00:05:11,603 --> 00:05:14,105 we wanted it to feel like a new space, 94 00:05:14,189 --> 00:05:15,607 so we shot it in the chamber of the Painted Table, 95 00:05:15,690 --> 00:05:17,567 but we removed the table, 96 00:05:17,650 --> 00:05:20,779 and then we just wanted it to feel like an intimate feast 97 00:05:20,862 --> 00:05:25,283 that she's throwing for the riders so that she can tell them 98 00:05:26,368 --> 00:05:27,952 you're going to war and you might die. 99 00:05:29,871 --> 00:05:33,375 I'm always, like, amazed by the creativity of the craftsmanship 100 00:05:33,457 --> 00:05:36,336 of, like, pie, cakes, the puddings, the blancmanges. 101 00:05:36,419 --> 00:05:38,588 So stunning. And such a contrast, actually, 102 00:05:38,672 --> 00:05:41,299 to this granite brickwork of Dragonstone. 103 00:05:41,383 --> 00:05:43,968 I love the pomegranates and those rich colors 104 00:05:44,052 --> 00:05:45,637 and the figs and the artichokes. 105 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,474 What a beautiful thing that is. It's like a little work of art. 106 00:05:49,557 --> 00:05:50,975 I was trying to keep the opulent colors 107 00:05:51,058 --> 00:05:54,270 and use flowers as well that they could hit light off, 108 00:05:54,354 --> 00:05:56,147 like pockets of fire almost. 109 00:05:56,231 --> 00:05:58,274 Just try and give it different tiered levels, 110 00:05:58,358 --> 00:06:01,319 so that you could have different height and candles amongst it. 111 00:06:01,403 --> 00:06:03,780 And then I think it really pops beautifully. 112 00:06:05,865 --> 00:06:07,617 It's hard work training dragons, you know? 113 00:06:07,701 --> 00:06:12,580 So, just gotta store the protein and get the carbs in, ya know? 114 00:06:13,081 --> 00:06:16,793 I picked duck, which is probably a-- quite a bad decision 115 00:06:16,876 --> 00:06:18,753 'cause we were just eatin' the whole day. 116 00:06:18,837 --> 00:06:21,506 Actors have got a thing where if there is an eating scene, 117 00:06:21,589 --> 00:06:23,717 they'll go, "I'll cut this raspberry in half 118 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,677 and I'll just pop that in." 119 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,513 I've got some raspberries and blackberries. 120 00:06:28,596 --> 00:06:32,308 I was like, "Do you know what? We're gonna do this take a lot of times, 121 00:06:32,392 --> 00:06:33,893 so I'm gonna munch on them berries." 122 00:06:33,977 --> 00:06:36,312 I ate, probably, seven punnets of berries. 123 00:06:36,855 --> 00:06:38,982 In King's Landing, you haven't had meat for months, 124 00:06:39,065 --> 00:06:40,483 and suddenly, we're sitting at a table 125 00:06:40,567 --> 00:06:42,027 and there's plates of meat. 126 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:44,362 I think I had, like, five slices of duck every take. 127 00:06:44,446 --> 00:06:48,033 Before we'd even gotten halfway through, he was, like, stuffed with duck. 128 00:06:48,116 --> 00:06:50,326 Thanks very much. Ah, magic. 129 00:06:50,409 --> 00:06:53,121 And I was just there eatin' my berries like, "You guys." 130 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,207 I'm not eatin' a thing tonight. It's gonna save me a fortune. 131 00:06:57,292 --> 00:07:00,879 When you're the bloke saying, "More little birds." 132 00:07:00,962 --> 00:07:02,547 And some more of these little birds. 133 00:07:02,630 --> 00:07:05,800 When those little birds arrive, you have to fucking eat them. 134 00:07:05,884 --> 00:07:07,635 Bring on the birds! 135 00:07:08,261 --> 00:07:09,512 Tom ate two birds a take. 136 00:07:09,596 --> 00:07:11,181 I said more of these little birds. 137 00:07:11,514 --> 00:07:13,808 We're on bird number eight, nine? 138 00:07:13,892 --> 00:07:15,560 He ate so many quails. 139 00:07:16,394 --> 00:07:18,730 There comes a point in the day where you say to yourself, 140 00:07:18,813 --> 00:07:21,358 "Okay, I'm being paid to eat birds today..." 141 00:07:21,441 --> 00:07:23,068 Sixteen, 17 now. 142 00:07:23,151 --> 00:07:25,236 "...and I'm gonna keep doing it until I'm sick." 143 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,447 He didn't look like he was sufferin', 144 00:07:27,530 --> 00:07:29,115 but maybe he's just a really good actor. 145 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:30,408 Twenty. 146 00:07:30,492 --> 00:07:31,785 I'm gonna make you all think 147 00:07:31,868 --> 00:07:34,913 I'm so hungry, that you want to eat the little birds. 148 00:07:34,996 --> 00:07:36,498 Twenty-four. 149 00:07:36,581 --> 00:07:37,707 At some point, he's gonna have to stop. 150 00:07:38,166 --> 00:07:41,378 It was over 30. 30 quails. 151 00:07:41,461 --> 00:07:43,797 I said more of these little birds. 152 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:48,051 A knight will comport himself with grace at the Queen's table. 153 00:07:48,510 --> 00:07:50,512 Best make me a knight, then. 154 00:07:57,686 --> 00:08:00,397 Coming into second season and having the honor 155 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,484 of directing the final vision was quite amazing for me. 156 00:08:05,568 --> 00:08:08,905 Do you wish then to learn what is given to you? 157 00:08:09,531 --> 00:08:11,366 We wanted Daemon to have this final experience 158 00:08:11,449 --> 00:08:12,826 that was undeniable to him. 159 00:08:12,909 --> 00:08:16,621 These visions are going to change his world outlook. 160 00:08:17,997 --> 00:08:20,959 Ryan and Sara put together a list of all the things 161 00:08:21,042 --> 00:08:24,212 that needed to be in the vision, and then it was up to me 162 00:08:24,295 --> 00:08:27,716 to visually connect everything and stylize it. 163 00:08:27,799 --> 00:08:32,220 We came up with a tableau that really told the story quickly 164 00:08:32,303 --> 00:08:33,596 with a palpable feeling. 165 00:08:37,017 --> 00:08:39,602 We shot the beginning as a dire wolf point of view, 166 00:08:39,686 --> 00:08:41,604 running through the snowy forest. 167 00:08:42,147 --> 00:08:45,275 This wave of White Walkers starts walking towards you 168 00:08:45,358 --> 00:08:48,069 and you just smash into their face basically. 169 00:08:49,529 --> 00:08:51,364 Come on, that's cool. 170 00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:53,408 In preparing for the White Walker scene, 171 00:08:53,491 --> 00:08:56,161 we definitely went back to "Game of Thrones." 172 00:08:56,244 --> 00:08:58,538 We looked at how their eyes were depicted. 173 00:08:58,621 --> 00:09:01,624 We looked at makeup. We looked at costumes. 174 00:09:02,083 --> 00:09:03,793 We're very lucky to have people on our crew 175 00:09:03,877 --> 00:09:05,837 who actually worked on the White Walkers 176 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:07,005 in "Game of Thrones" 177 00:09:07,088 --> 00:09:08,465 who were able to sorta tell us 178 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:09,674 what kinda color palette we should be using 179 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:12,010 to stay consistent with what's gone before. 180 00:09:12,093 --> 00:09:14,637 From the time we knew we were gonna do a White Walker, 181 00:09:14,721 --> 00:09:16,765 we had our performer in mind, Paul Casey. 182 00:09:16,848 --> 00:09:18,892 He's a movement performer, stunt coordinator, 183 00:09:18,975 --> 00:09:21,186 and he's got a very measured way of moving. 184 00:09:21,269 --> 00:09:24,647 And Paul was amazing. He's like a prosthetics veteran. 185 00:09:24,731 --> 00:09:26,691 So he's like a statue when you're stickin' stuff on him. 186 00:09:26,775 --> 00:09:27,650 An old pro. 187 00:09:27,859 --> 00:09:29,194 The first thing we need to do 188 00:09:29,277 --> 00:09:31,946 -is just get all the basics right. -Timing, yes. 189 00:09:32,739 --> 00:09:34,240 The set got quite busy. 190 00:09:34,324 --> 00:09:37,035 As soon as Paul came on set in his White Walker makeup, 191 00:09:37,118 --> 00:09:39,204 it suddenly started buzzing a little bit. 192 00:09:39,287 --> 00:09:41,122 All of a sudden, there's 150 people in there 193 00:09:41,206 --> 00:09:42,832 and I thought, the only reason all these people are here 194 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:44,626 is 'cause of these White Walkers, but I couldn't blame them. 195 00:09:45,710 --> 00:09:50,965 One, two, three, four, five. 196 00:09:51,049 --> 00:09:54,052 Marching. 197 00:09:56,513 --> 00:09:59,808 There were 20 undead, slashes down their faces, 198 00:09:59,891 --> 00:10:03,645 prosthetic cheekbones, contact lenses, dentures. 199 00:10:03,728 --> 00:10:08,441 Our man who played the hero wight upstairs with his teeth as part of the bust. 200 00:10:09,401 --> 00:10:13,113 We had the costume department green out areas, 201 00:10:13,196 --> 00:10:15,949 so it appeared as though they were skeletons or missing limbs 202 00:10:16,032 --> 00:10:17,409 and stuff like that. 203 00:10:17,492 --> 00:10:22,580 It's just gonna be a really powerful part of the end of the series, I think. 204 00:10:24,332 --> 00:10:25,917 The White Walker moment 205 00:10:26,001 --> 00:10:29,004 was something that took me back to the roots 206 00:10:29,087 --> 00:10:30,797 of why I love George's writing 207 00:10:31,631 --> 00:10:35,635 and why I love this world and this story. 208 00:10:36,553 --> 00:10:38,847 This sequence is a way of showing how 209 00:10:38,930 --> 00:10:41,641 our series does interconnect with that future series, 210 00:10:41,725 --> 00:10:45,228 and the events that are happening now do have an impact on how that future 211 00:10:45,311 --> 00:10:46,354 is going to play out. 212 00:10:47,272 --> 00:10:49,149 Daemon is the one who finds these eggs, 213 00:10:49,232 --> 00:10:50,817 and then we're goin' to see him have a vision 214 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:52,610 of Daenerys's eggs in the fire, 215 00:10:52,694 --> 00:10:55,864 which are the fossilized lichen-covered eggs. 216 00:10:55,947 --> 00:10:58,408 It's been really fun to make sure that these are 217 00:10:58,491 --> 00:11:00,869 glisteny, shiny, lovely eggs that you could believe would hatch, 218 00:11:00,952 --> 00:11:02,954 and then get to display Dany's eggs again, 219 00:11:03,038 --> 00:11:05,415 which are canon to "Game of Thrones." 220 00:11:07,584 --> 00:11:10,045 All of these epic tentpoles 221 00:11:10,128 --> 00:11:12,380 of "Game of Thrones" universe were there. 222 00:11:12,464 --> 00:11:15,050 What Geeta did, which was incredible, 223 00:11:15,133 --> 00:11:18,553 was sort of piece them all together into a narrative 224 00:11:18,636 --> 00:11:20,472 and have it have this arc. 225 00:11:21,056 --> 00:11:24,392 It brings a lot of the different elements of this great, 226 00:11:24,476 --> 00:11:27,187 brilliant show that we're all part of together. 227 00:11:27,270 --> 00:11:29,105 And I think that's really exciting. 228 00:11:29,773 --> 00:11:31,983 You know your part. 229 00:11:42,243 --> 00:11:44,537 There is a message from Harrenhal, Your Grace. 230 00:11:44,621 --> 00:11:48,917 Daemon has raised his army, but Ser Simon fears treachery. 231 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:51,878 Harrenhal is a Riverlands location. 232 00:11:51,961 --> 00:11:54,464 It's often ensconced in fog and mist. 233 00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:56,758 When our line producer showed us this location, 234 00:11:56,841 --> 00:11:58,677 all of us looked at it and said, 235 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,595 "That's the basis for Harrenhal." 236 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,765 I loved Wales. I just can't get over the landscape. 237 00:12:04,391 --> 00:12:06,559 And the location was extraordinary. 238 00:12:06,643 --> 00:12:09,354 It felt like we were in this other world. 239 00:12:09,437 --> 00:12:11,815 I had some ideas of how Harrenhal should be 240 00:12:11,898 --> 00:12:14,859 before we went to Wales, but then, most definitely, 241 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:17,946 those Welsh locations fed into the whole design process. 242 00:12:18,029 --> 00:12:21,241 It just felt like a perfect place to stage a very lonely castle 243 00:12:21,324 --> 00:12:23,743 to sit in a totally desolate, epic landscape. 244 00:12:26,621 --> 00:12:29,374 Addam, come with me. 245 00:12:30,041 --> 00:12:33,003 Daemon and Rhaenyra approach Harrenhal via a dragon. 246 00:12:33,086 --> 00:12:37,757 The approach to Harrenhal was one that we spent a lot of time mapping it out 247 00:12:37,841 --> 00:12:41,553 with visual effects in previs, but then when we had an actual location, 248 00:12:41,636 --> 00:12:45,557 it was important for us to take a drone up and see what that approach would be like. 249 00:12:46,599 --> 00:12:50,103 When Rhaenyra flies in, that was massively complicated 250 00:12:50,186 --> 00:12:51,688 'cause Harrenhal's so big 251 00:12:51,771 --> 00:12:53,940 and we wanted to try and capture that scale, 252 00:12:54,024 --> 00:12:56,776 but also capture the island and the Gods Eye lake. 253 00:12:59,279 --> 00:13:01,072 As she flies around Harrenhal, 254 00:13:01,156 --> 00:13:03,700 she just sees troops and troops and troops... 255 00:13:04,993 --> 00:13:09,831 through visual effects, then extended to thousands of army. 256 00:13:09,914 --> 00:13:11,124 If you read the books, 257 00:13:11,207 --> 00:13:15,462 these armies were 30,000 troops coming to war. 258 00:13:15,545 --> 00:13:17,005 We literally were doing the maths 259 00:13:17,088 --> 00:13:18,548 on how many tents we would need 260 00:13:18,631 --> 00:13:20,925 to house about 30,000. 261 00:13:21,009 --> 00:13:23,428 It's just a massive scale of army. 262 00:13:32,479 --> 00:13:35,440 This quarry had this magnificent ramp. 263 00:13:35,523 --> 00:13:37,859 We really wanted to stage the scene on the ramp 264 00:13:37,942 --> 00:13:41,154 because from the ramp is this incredible view down the valley. 265 00:13:41,237 --> 00:13:44,616 But we had to get very special permission to get everybody up on that ramp 266 00:13:44,699 --> 00:13:47,369 because it's a rather dangerous place to be. 267 00:13:47,786 --> 00:13:50,497 There are dangerous pitfalls and sinkholes 268 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:54,209 and sheer shafts of stone and reservoir runoffs. 269 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:57,337 Anything that's off the beaten track, which that most certainly is, 270 00:13:57,420 --> 00:13:59,297 and literally up a single road track, 271 00:13:59,381 --> 00:14:01,174 halfway up a mountain, is always gonna be difficult 272 00:14:01,257 --> 00:14:02,634 when you've got that amount of infrastructure 273 00:14:02,717 --> 00:14:05,136 that comes with shooting a show like this. 274 00:14:05,220 --> 00:14:06,930 There were incredible challenges shooting there 275 00:14:07,013 --> 00:14:09,224 from a number of levels, but it was so worth it. 276 00:14:09,724 --> 00:14:11,434 Those days are the ones you get home and think, 277 00:14:11,518 --> 00:14:13,728 "Oh, we did it. We got it done." 278 00:14:13,812 --> 00:14:17,982 Welcome to Harrenhal, my Queen. I did not think to see you here yourself. 279 00:14:19,359 --> 00:14:22,445 When we did Daemon bending the knee to Rhaenyra, 280 00:14:22,529 --> 00:14:25,115 we did it on a blue screen stage. 281 00:14:25,198 --> 00:14:28,743 We used some very high cranes. We had a 70-foot crane on that occasion, 282 00:14:28,827 --> 00:14:31,204 and a 40-foot crane working together. 283 00:14:31,287 --> 00:14:34,499 We thought of the scene "King in the North" with Jon Snow. 284 00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:37,002 We also thought of, even from last season, 285 00:14:37,085 --> 00:14:39,212 when Aegon gets crowned. 286 00:14:39,295 --> 00:14:42,757 There's all these "sword in the air" moments in cinema history 287 00:14:42,841 --> 00:14:44,217 and in "Game of Thrones" history. 288 00:14:44,718 --> 00:14:46,761 We had quite a lot of people, 289 00:14:46,845 --> 00:14:48,680 but we need to make it a full army. 290 00:14:48,763 --> 00:14:52,892 We shot different elements of this army in order to replicate them 291 00:14:52,976 --> 00:14:55,770 and make it much, much bigger. 292 00:14:57,439 --> 00:15:01,026 It's also that castle environment outside of the windows, towers, 293 00:15:01,109 --> 00:15:02,986 and other pieces of architecture. 294 00:15:04,029 --> 00:15:05,905 By the time the visual effects department 295 00:15:05,989 --> 00:15:07,866 have put their touch to it, 296 00:15:07,949 --> 00:15:10,910 I think it will be a spectacular sequence. 297 00:15:10,994 --> 00:15:13,496 We fight for our queen! 298 00:15:21,254 --> 00:15:25,216 Ladies and gentlemen, that is a season wrap on Emma. 299 00:15:38,855 --> 00:15:42,317 I would take my daughter and her child and leave it all behind. 300 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:43,860 It's too late. 301 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:46,988 We end the season with Rhaenyra having been left 302 00:15:47,072 --> 00:15:48,490 with the burden of decision 303 00:15:48,573 --> 00:15:53,328 whether to move forward with the war or trust Alicent 304 00:15:53,411 --> 00:15:54,829 and take the throne. 305 00:15:55,789 --> 00:15:56,998 Go. 306 00:15:59,376 --> 00:16:01,544 We pop out of that very intimate moment 307 00:16:01,628 --> 00:16:03,755 to remind people that armies are on the march, 308 00:16:03,838 --> 00:16:06,383 and all of these big pieces on the chessboard are moving. 309 00:16:07,884 --> 00:16:10,261 The montage was a very exciting thing 310 00:16:10,345 --> 00:16:12,097 to read on a page, very epic. 311 00:16:12,180 --> 00:16:15,892 We storyboarded it first to get an idea of how it would flow 312 00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:18,603 and we really wanted the camera to be moving 313 00:16:18,687 --> 00:16:20,063 and show the epic scale. 314 00:16:20,563 --> 00:16:22,899 We designed very specific shots, really, 315 00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:24,943 for the different armies. 316 00:16:27,654 --> 00:16:29,823 The shot on the bridge, when we boarded it, 317 00:16:29,906 --> 00:16:32,450 I said to Geeta, "This is an impossible shot. 318 00:16:32,534 --> 00:16:34,327 I have no idea how to do this." 319 00:16:34,411 --> 00:16:37,163 It was one of those things that we previs'd and we were like, 320 00:16:37,247 --> 00:16:38,790 "I don't think you can shoot that." 321 00:16:39,499 --> 00:16:43,003 Sometimes you have to build something, which is what we did in that circumstance. 322 00:16:43,503 --> 00:16:45,380 I described how we wanted the camera to move 323 00:16:45,463 --> 00:16:47,173 and what we wanted it to do. 324 00:16:47,257 --> 00:16:50,760 Working with our team, we figured it out. 325 00:16:50,844 --> 00:16:53,013 My brilliant key grip, Alex Fraser, 326 00:16:53,096 --> 00:16:55,557 designed a system that would run on, on ropes 327 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,393 that were controlled by guys pushin' dollies. 328 00:16:58,476 --> 00:17:00,353 I had two tracks parallel to each other, 329 00:17:00,437 --> 00:17:04,315 72 pulleys, 6,000 foot of tech line. 330 00:17:04,816 --> 00:17:07,527 It worked beautifully. It was exactly what we wanted. 331 00:17:08,819 --> 00:17:12,115 Three, two, one, action! 332 00:17:12,656 --> 00:17:16,077 We'd start at a height of about 60 or 70 feet above the bridge. 333 00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:19,998 And as the army marched towards us, we approached on these cables. 334 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,666 We got lower and lower through moving dollies. 335 00:17:23,084 --> 00:17:25,878 I had one grip to travel the camera on the wire. 336 00:17:25,962 --> 00:17:27,839 And I had another to descend it down. 337 00:17:27,922 --> 00:17:31,426 Alex caught the camera, and then we do an extraordinary pan around. 338 00:17:31,509 --> 00:17:33,219 Even with me stood there watching it on the monitor, 339 00:17:33,303 --> 00:17:34,846 knowing all my background, 340 00:17:34,929 --> 00:17:36,431 and stepping out of the way of the camera and stepping back in, 341 00:17:36,514 --> 00:17:39,059 every time it happens, I was looking at the monitor going, 342 00:17:39,142 --> 00:17:40,310 "How is that working?" 343 00:17:40,393 --> 00:17:41,978 It was an incredible shot that is gonna 344 00:17:42,062 --> 00:17:43,855 pickle people's brains for a little bit, I think. 345 00:17:44,439 --> 00:17:48,443 We then drop down between the army and saw their boots going past us, 346 00:17:48,526 --> 00:17:50,820 about 40 or 50 soldiers. 347 00:17:50,904 --> 00:17:53,198 They really gave us a very hard challenge, 348 00:17:53,281 --> 00:17:55,825 which I was very proud of my grip team and camera team 349 00:17:55,909 --> 00:17:59,037 because I think we met it and it's a very spectacular shot 350 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:01,122 right at the end of this season. 351 00:18:04,209 --> 00:18:06,670 I think it's gonna be a powerful moment in the end of episode eight, 352 00:18:06,753 --> 00:18:08,797 jumping through all these characters and all their story arcs. 353 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,676 When you cut it all together, you really want it to send chills 354 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:15,136 down everybody's spines and to be this memorable thing 355 00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:16,805 that everybody thinks about while they wait 356 00:18:16,888 --> 00:18:18,306 for the next season to come out. 357 00:18:18,390 --> 00:18:21,935 It's definitely our show saying, 358 00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:24,688 "You gotta come back and see what happens next." 359 00:18:26,189 --> 00:18:29,693 The end of the episode is like a boiling pot. 360 00:18:29,776 --> 00:18:31,611 It's incredibly exciting knowing that, now, 361 00:18:31,695 --> 00:18:33,697 there are so many more dragonriders. 362 00:18:35,740 --> 00:18:38,702 It certainly doesn't look too good for Team Green. 363 00:18:38,785 --> 00:18:41,329 You shouldn't be puttin' your eggs in one basket at this point. 364 00:18:41,413 --> 00:18:43,456 The pendulum could swing the other way very quickly. 365 00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:49,713 It's about to kick off big time. That's what I have to say. 366 00:18:54,217 --> 00:18:56,928 It's been an incredible experience to see the things 367 00:18:57,012 --> 00:18:59,347 that we wrote on the page come to life 368 00:18:59,431 --> 00:19:01,474 and to see the hundreds and hundreds of people 369 00:19:01,558 --> 00:19:03,184 that have poured their talent into it 370 00:19:03,268 --> 00:19:05,895 is humbling and exciting 371 00:19:05,979 --> 00:19:08,982 and it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience definitely. 372 00:19:09,524 --> 00:19:11,317 I'm just intensely grateful for all of you, 373 00:19:11,401 --> 00:19:14,946 and I'm in awe of the incredible talent and effort, dedication, 374 00:19:15,030 --> 00:19:16,948 and the fact that you all still are smiling, 375 00:19:17,032 --> 00:19:18,074 which touches my heart. 376 00:19:18,950 --> 00:19:21,661 I feel kind of like Ulf at the very end of his story, 377 00:19:21,745 --> 00:19:23,204 right before Silverwing finds him. 378 00:19:23,288 --> 00:19:26,124 I've been running through a cave in the dark with a torch. 379 00:19:26,207 --> 00:19:28,668 I'm quite tired, but I think I claimed the dragon, 380 00:19:28,752 --> 00:19:30,587 and I'm very proud of all the work 381 00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:33,214 that the writers, directors, cast, and crew have done on this show 382 00:19:33,298 --> 00:19:34,674 and I'm very, very grateful for it.