Prime Video Unveils Official Trailer and Launch Date for the Second Series of The Rig
Brian Ferguson chats with Iain Glen, Rochenda Sandall, Martin Compston and writer David Macpherson ahead of its launch.
The second series of The Rig sees the surviving crew of the Kinloch Bravo arrive at a new secret offshore facility called the Stac, nestled deep in the extraordinary and deadly landscapes of the Arctic Circle. Here, the trapped crew must deal with the emotional and physical fallout of the devastating tsunami that destroyed the Bravo, and contend with swirling conspiracies, corporate conflicts, and new threats from the dark depths of the world’s ocean. The second series will continue exploring global themes – weaving together the past, present, and future of the planet while taking the viewer to spectacular environments and drawing on the frontiers of cutting-edge ocean technology – including the controversial world of deep sea mining.
Brian Ferguson chats with Iain Glen, Rochenda Sandall, Martin Compston and writer David Macpherson ahead of its launch.
The second series of The Rig sees the surviving crew of the Kinloch Bravo arrive at a new secret offshore facility called the Stac, nestled deep in the extraordinary and deadly landscapes of the Arctic Circle. Here, the trapped crew must deal with the emotional and physical fallout of the devastating tsunami that destroyed the Bravo, and contend with swirling conspiracies, corporate conflicts, and new threats from the dark depths of the world’s ocean. The second series will continue exploring global themes – weaving together the past, present, and future of the planet while taking the viewer to spectacular environments and drawing on the frontiers of cutting-edge ocean technology – including the controversial world of deep sea mining.
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00:00Hi, I'm Brian Ferguson, Arts Correspondent at Scotsman.
00:03I'm here at the Everyman Cinema in Edinburgh
00:06for the launch of the second season of the Amazon Prime series, The Rig.
00:11The supernatural thriller is set in the North Sea in the first season
00:16and goes further afield in season two.
00:19I'm going to be speaking to writer David McPherson
00:22and stars Iain Glenn, Martin Compton and Rochenda Sandal.
00:28Alien?
00:29Yeah, I think it is.
00:30I think the first season was very interior.
00:34It was about a group of people trapped in a world that they knew,
00:39a world that they came from,
00:40but all these alien variables attacking them, disorientating them.
00:46But in the new world, they enter a whole different landscape,
00:50suggested by the MTC, but they end up in the Arctic Circle.
00:54Perfectly unsettling.
00:56Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
00:58I mean, I thought it was decided at the beginning
01:00that they couldn't actually take Amazon to dig a fish rig
01:04without them doing the helicopter training.
01:07So that's pretty tricky in terms of insurance and things like that.
01:11So I think it was decided that they were going to have to do a studio fit.
01:17But it's crazy.
01:18But it's also awesome.
01:20It's part of what makes the job the job.
01:22You're looking around and thinking, wow, this is how they do it.
01:25You're really getting to see behind the scenes.
01:27I know it sounds a bit cheesy, but that's the bit that I love so much.
01:32Oh, I'm getting lightened.
01:32Yeah, see, it's terrible.
01:33It's a stunner.
01:34Down to the line, it was one of the absolute best things I've ever been on.
01:37Everybody's saying,
01:38I was just dying.
01:39Gone in anger.
01:40It was fun to hear.
01:41It was so much the best.
01:42Honestly, in terms of the job enjoyment,
01:45you just want to finish it.
01:47Yeah, the whole thing.
01:48I think it's brilliant.
01:49I love it.
01:49All the cheers and faces like, ah, you've done something.
01:52I was very excited.
01:53It's definitely great.
01:54I really love it.
01:56Ah, great.
01:57The after party's been a wonderful job.
01:59I've felt it as hot as they could probably.
02:01Is it on ice?
02:02No, it's in a spot that's set in a different way.
02:05It's so hot, and like, it's as old now, but it's just when you can feel it.
02:09It's incredible.
02:10Yeah, damn, you're making me speak my mind.
02:12Just brilliant.
02:13It's a bit special.
02:13I've fished that way a few times.
02:15The actually, there's a pause that we have usually.
02:17What are you into both of them?
02:19Um.
02:19Oh, the actual job.
02:20This should not really affect me, I'd say.
02:22The fact that I get to be able to do all this myself,
02:26right now, in French.
02:27What is everything in French?
02:28Well, you say I'm at least trying to hang myself up.
02:31I'm still hanging myself up.
02:33All hot and all that.
02:34Right.
02:35I must say, like, that's one of the things I'm trying to change about, too.
02:39I'd rather just be here, but, like, let's give it a try.
02:42Something new.
02:43It's nice to do it, because I think it's something that's going to be a whole new thing for me.
02:45It's just fun.
02:46It's like that, you know.
02:48Yeah, it's brilliant.
02:48It's, I'm really excited to finally be able to show people
02:52what we've been picking up.
02:53It's been a couple of years since the last series,
02:56and this time we've gone really big.
02:58So, I'm really excited to share that with the audience.
03:02Yeah, it is.
03:03And it's been a real education for me as well,
03:06because I didn't know, I didn't sort of know
03:09you need to do film or anything like that.
03:10So, in this first series, that was kind of like what I filmed still.
03:14And then, coming back to it for this series,
03:16I felt I'd learned a lot and developed.
03:19That let us push things really far.
03:22Yeah, well, I'd say this series is, it's a lot more action-focused.
03:27One of the big changes is our location.
03:29So, series one, we stayed on the rig the entire time.
03:33This series, first we've moved up to the Arctic.
03:36That's a new environment for our crew.
03:38And this is, rather than being on their own rig,
03:41they're on Colt, Mark Addy's character, his facility.
03:46And it's sort of, they're completely thrown out of their element by that.
03:49And then, so we've got them out on the snow and the ice in the Arctic,
03:52and then we've got sections under the sea as well.
03:55And, yeah, I think we've really survived this series.
03:59Series two of The Rig launches on Prime Video on the 2nd of January.
04:03And here's a trailer with a sneak preview of the new season.
04:07A state of emergency has been declared this morning
04:10after a powerful tsunami struck the North Sea coastline.
04:15How long until we get back?
04:16This chopper isn't going back.
04:19Where are we going?
04:26Morgan Lennox, Pictor's CEO.
04:28The boss of all the bosses.
04:31What about Pictor's plans for carving up the Arctic?
04:36What exactly were they looking for?
04:39The company's covering up.
04:45That thing down there would collapse this place like two.
04:49It will be the end of all life.
04:53It's coming apart! Come on! Let's go!
05:02We need to stop the company.
05:05Ready?
05:06Ready.
05:15You all made a promise you'd get us back, and you broke it.
05:19We were so focused on what was out there, we missed the danger in here.
05:25Extinction.
05:27That was its warning.
05:44You