You would think nothing would scare The Night Agent's Gabriel Basso, but as he returns for season two, he's been telling Melissa Nathoo about the experience that scarred him for life, and what he thinks should happen in season three. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Peter's reaching his end. Maybe my enemies will use him against me.
00:03Rewatch the season.
00:04You know what I'm saying?
00:05I mean, that's good as well.
00:06Yeah, I'm not going to sell out. I had a very scarring hike. One of the hardest moments
00:11of my life.
00:12Gabriel, nice to meet you.
00:13Good to meet you.
00:14We've got you right back in the spotlight for just one of the bigger shows on Netflix,
00:19which must be pretty special for you, but are you feeling the pressure with season two?
00:23No pressure that shouldn't be there, naturally. You know, I always try to do the best thing
00:29I can anyway, so the amount of eyes on the show don't really change that. But for me,
00:36the pressure was coming more from the internal side of, you know, there was a crew member
00:43who just had a kid and like wasn't getting any time because we're shooting nights, so
00:49they weren't getting any time with their kid. And it was one of those things where you feel
00:54that pressure of like, that guy's not getting time with his kid because of me, so I better
00:59make this, you know, I better show up on time, better know my lines, and I better, you know,
01:04because what the hell.
01:05Great attitude.
01:06Or what's wrong with me.
01:07I am curious though, is there actually anything that does scare you? Because we've seen you
01:14jump out.
01:15Spiders.
01:16Well, yeah.
01:17I hate spiders.
01:18You're the same as me.
01:19Okay.
01:20Because I've skydived, but I put a spider in front of me, I'll be in tears.
01:22I had a very scarring hike. One of the hardest moments of my life was passing through this
01:28valley of death with these spiders that, they were about this big and they, I was on a trail
01:35that like wasn't hiked a lot, so they had time to sort of grow over this path. And there
01:41were bushes probably up to my waist and I was walking through and I remember, I've never
01:46told this story, actually. So I was walking through this thing and I feel on my trekking
01:52pole, like I hear like a tear and I was like, what the hell was that? It sounded like fabric.
01:57And I looked down and it had passed through this web and I was like, okay, I see the spider
02:01crawling up my trekking pole, so I, you know, sort of turn it around and put it there. Then
02:06I look down and I'm wearing shorts and they're like all over my shorts and on my backpack
02:12and one like went under my, you know how they like ball up when they're, yeah. It was terrifying.
02:17So I hate spiders, you know.
02:20So they haven't put any in the show so far, but now that they know that you're absolutely
02:24terrified of them.
02:24Maybe my enemies will use them against me, yeah.
02:27Exactly. Season three, which it has been renewed, right, already for season three, which we've
02:31heard.
02:32We've shot an episode already. We were shooting in Istanbul.
02:35So at least we know that you don't die in season two.
02:38Maybe it's a flashback.
02:39The whole of season three is just a... But that was the thing. I remember watching an
02:44interview you did for season one and you're like, what would you like to happen in season
02:46two? And you're like, I'd like Peter to die because that would be a good...
02:49Yeah, I think it's Peter's reaching his end. You know, it's against my own personal interest
02:55to want Peter to die, but I think narratively, the narrative has to come first so I don't
03:01waste people's time, you know. And if it's every season, Peter's making bad decisions
03:06and yet somehow he's saving the world every season, it's like, dude, just get rid of this
03:11guy.
03:11Yeah, but everyone loves him too much. Come on.
03:13Then rewatch the season. You know what I'm saying?
03:15I mean, that's good as well.
03:17I'm not going to sell out.
03:20You do a lot of chasing and there's a lot of being chased. I'm curious which one you
03:25are better at personally, do you think?
03:27Oof. Depends on what I'm chasing. You know, like if someone just kicked my dog, I'm catching
03:34that dude, you know?
03:35Now, if he called me name and ran off, I could care less. Being chased, I'm not a runner
03:41so my default setting is turn around and pulverize the thing that's chasing me. Or die.
03:47Okay, great. But you have done a lot of running in here, so how do you feel about that?
03:52Like a coward. No. Man, it's not fun to run that much, but you do what you do. The tough
04:02thing about all the running is you have to make it look like it's the first time you've
04:06done it, you know, and you're actually running for your life. So it's not a, you know, I'll
04:12do jumping jacks in the corner and then be out of breath on screen. It's like I'm running,
04:17you know, quarter mile sprints at a time and they're chasing me on an ATV to get the footage
04:22and then we're flipping around going the other way, going just as fast like I'm running for
04:27my life and everything. So it's just a weird, it's just tough sometimes to do that much
04:33of an effort, maximum effort every time from, I think we filmed one night all the running
04:38sequence in Bangkok we did from 7 p.m. to 3 in the morning. So I was running from like,
04:43yeah, 7 p.m., so what is that? A lot of hours. Six hours or something? I don't do maths and
04:48I don't do running, but you do the running very well. Thank you. As well as everything
04:53else. Nine hours. I think that's nine hours. I don't do maths. Cut it out. Redact it. Good
05:03luck. I don't think you need it. Everyone's excited for this.