Here's your behind the scenes look at the Netflix science fiction series 3 Body Problem Season 1 Episode 5, created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo.
3 Body Problem Cast:
Benedict Wong, Tsai Chin, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham, Jovan Adepo, Jonathan Pryce, Rosalind Chao, Ben Schnetzer and Eve Ridley
Stream 3 Body Problem Season 1 Now on Netflix!
3 Body Problem Cast:
Benedict Wong, Tsai Chin, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham, Jovan Adepo, Jonathan Pryce, Rosalind Chao, Ben Schnetzer and Eve Ridley
Stream 3 Body Problem Season 1 Now on Netflix!
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 The Judgment Day sequence was one of those ones
00:04 that we talked about before, where you just think, oh, man,
00:07 I really want to see that on screen, see it done right.
00:09 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:12 I've read the episode countless times,
00:22 trying to fathom how am I going to visually pull this off.
00:27 I don't think we've ever seen something like this on TV.
00:30 There's so much going on.
00:32 It's a crazy frenzy.
00:34 So I think this should be epic television.
00:37 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:40 We found him.
00:42 Panamax oil tanker.
00:44 Could be 1,000 people living on there.
00:48 For something as epic as The Judgment Day,
00:50 it began with months of prep.
00:53 And it started with the science.
00:55 Oggy is a genius, and I employ her to use those skills
00:59 in a very questionable way.
01:01 What do you think is more important to the human race,
01:04 a canal, or defeating an enemy coming to our world
01:06 to take it for themselves?
01:09 When we were trying to design the nanofiber cutter
01:13 in Oggy's lab, something I realized quite quickly
01:16 was that if I was really doing this experiment,
01:18 I would want to be observing the property of these fibers.
01:21 So you would probably want to avoid moving the fibers.
01:23 You would want to keep the fibers static
01:25 and move the block through the fibers.
01:28 Why isn't it working?
01:29 It is.
01:34 And if we believe that what the diamond cutter can do
01:37 is possible, then the outcome of Judgment Day is believable.
01:40 You wanted to work.
01:45 Of course I wanted to work.
01:47 Even though you don't know how many people we're going to kill,
01:49 what do you think is happening?
01:52 I think we're at war.
01:55 Everyone in the show is grappling all the time
01:58 with the question of, in a wartime situation,
02:01 how far will you go?
02:05 One of the corridor sequences where everything gets destroyed,
02:09 everyone just expects that you're just
02:10 going to all do it in post.
02:12 But I wanted to keep quite a bit of it in camera as well.
02:16 For us creating that, it's very important
02:19 to make it very organic.
02:20 So we want to pull off something which looks hyper real,
02:24 but to a point of realism that is really quite
02:27 interesting and propelling.
02:30 The other epic moment is the wreckage.
02:34 And Keith, head of construction, genius,
02:37 came up with using this idea of neoprene.
02:40 And that was rigged onto a very simple rig,
02:42 but whereby those strips could be pushed and pulled
02:46 and angled up or down.
02:48 And it made these strips look like they had been mangled.
02:50 What's important for me was to make sure
02:58 that we fed the appetite for spectacle and scale,
03:02 but with characters that we care about.
03:04 You're telling us to kill people we don't know for reasons
03:06 that we don't know.
03:07 And you're just like, yeah, cool.
03:11 You have to focus on character and relationships
03:13 where it can be brought down to the human.
03:16 When you're dealing with a drama that
03:18 affects all of humanity, things may not be as black and white.
03:23 So we really see Auggie just trying to grab onto life
03:28 as hard as possible.
03:31 It creates an interesting moral dynamic for the viewer,
03:34 but the most violent, horrific thing that we do
03:37 is done by ostensibly the good guys.
03:41 I mean, it's terrifying.
03:42 It's utterly terrifying.
03:45 And that's the feeling I wanted to create,
03:48 that you've been literally blindsided with this massacre.
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04:04 (dramatic music)