(The editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for the “Paradise“Season 1, section 7,” the day. “)
When discussing season 1, section 7 of “Paradise,” Sterling K. Brown can hardly contain its tension. As executive producer and star in And Fogelmans Hulu Series, Brown is deeply invested in the material, but he is also stunned as viewers of what they have created.
“As someone who is a big fan of TV When I grow up, there are episodes of TV that I remember, and I would say to myself: ‘God, if I could ever do something similar, people will remember it,’ ‘he told IndieWire the week before the episode was released. “I think we did it, and it feels really cool.”
Brown’s big episode is called “The Day” because it is so characters in the series refer to it – the day “The World Ended”, as Presley (Aliyah Mastin) says in section 2. This is the day when Xavier (Brown) lost his wife, when Nuclear power tips shot across the planet, and when 25,000 hand -picked individuals fled to a society intended to keep them safe. Written by John Hoberg and directed by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa, the section develops two years earlier, with Xavier desperately to protect his family, bound to protect Cal (James Marsden), and every new news that sends waves of horror and horror and horror horror doubt through each character.
“Morality seems much clearer when you are not a decision maker,” Brown said, discussing the impossible choices that Cal and others have to make. “When you are at the bottom, look up, is there right and wrong:“ You will only kill people, you will only give them an opportunity to fight for their lives? “From Cal’s position, if life is to have any chance, it can’t be everyone. It’s a strange place to sit in. I actually think it’s harder for him than for Xavier, and I have real empathy for someone who has to grasp that kind of decision. ”
The section is full of powerful performances and charged scenes, of which Brown could not choose a favorite. There are today’s booknds with Samantha (Julianne Nicholson), the “Gut-Wranking” final conversation between Xavier and his wife, and the confrontation between Xavier and Cal on the asphalt, where they shout at each other as the same because the apocalypse does not do not care about your security approval.
“He is devastatingly handsome, he is extremely talented and charming, he has been known for a really long time-so if he wanted to become a hole, he could be, and he could probably get away with it,” Brown said if his cost . “The off-camera, we have the best time. We sing songs, we break each other – he is the kind of person who was perfect for me to go into this show with: serious when you need to be serious, incredibly relaxed when it’s time to be relaxed. He is a big guy, and if (his character) was not dead, God I wish we could do it again. “
Structurally speaking, the section is a roller coaster that only goes up and escalating tension under the flash hill. There were firearms and plan sets and a helicopter (not to mention the murder that was committed just outside it, with blood that sprayed the camera), as well as background actors to fill up the asphalt and the White House before spilling the lawn.
It reminded Brown for a show that can be as far as possible from “Paradise”: “The fantastic Mrs Maisel.” “The way that Amy Sherman-Palladino likes to move the camera, it’s almost like a dance,” Brown said. “Camera men make their crazy shit and move around. The actors have to meet this right now, make sure the camera pointed that way – you can feel it. You feel that everyone raises their attention so much higher, and it becomes kind of natural. It will be a game that no one wants to be the person who releases the ball. ”
With all these moving parts (not to mention VFX added by mail), the only time was to practice under camera settings. “Time is money and time is short, so you try to maximize the money you get a chance to put on the screen,” Brown said. “Every actor has this inner clock. I start repeating internally myself, three days out, five days out, what it takes, so that when I come to that day I am not the person who slows things up. I am the person who holds things about. “
The first round of “paradise” Interviews took place shortly after the Los Angeles fire fires, which gave more attention to the resonance of climate disasters and the “strange and unnecessary entangles between capitalism and politics”, as Brown put it.
“We started doing a show that we thought was a fiction work that would somehow resemble the society where we live,” he said. “Although we are not trying to make any direct comments about something that happens immediately in our present. … While you are entertained by the show, which is troll bound by the experience, you should ask yourself: we do enough as a community to make sure we leave our planet in a place where the people who come after us can enjoy It is as much as we can enjoy it right now? ”
It is a question that pulsates in the heart of “Paradise” long before section 7 reveals its secrets, and one that Brown hopes will enrich the display experience.
“I think some good story will possibly do a few different things at the same time,” he said. “You will be maintained by it. You will be trained by it, and hopefully you will be inspired to go out into the world and hopefully make it a better place. I think we do it in our own little way, with ‘Paradise.’
“Paradise” season 1 ends on Monday 3 March. The series has been renewed for a second season.
