Spoilersahead forMythic Quest: Quarantine(as well as Season 1 of the series).
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(The answer:really nice.)
Find the answers below, but only read after you’ve watched.
To begin with the end, let’s talk about the final stunt and how that came together.
And it was also incredibly fun and satisfying.
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And if one person messed it up, then it ruined it for everybody else.
So I called our production designer and our special effects house and our prop department.
And I said, “This is what we’re thinking about doing, what do you think?”
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And of course, like all crew members always, they say, “great, that sounds great.
We can do it.
And then they hang up, and then they go figure it out.
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And then, eventually landing on the sequence that you saw of each individual machine.
They also created videos on how to set them up and use them.
The actors then took them out of the box, sterilized them again, and put them together.
So, were are you actually able to execute it in real time?
McELHENNEY: No, no, no.
And then we would just go through and rip through it in order.
Once you were up and running, the actual shooting of it was not that difficult.
It was all the prep work that led up to it.
Do you have a favorite moment from it?
McELHENNEY: Well, yes.
That he’s the missing box.
And we know that he’s been struggling with technology the entire episode.
You know, consciously and unconsciously, that he’s going to show up.
He’s going to get there in time, right?
And yet, I mean, I’ve seen it now.
I mean, I’ve seen it 50,000 times and I still am excited when he pops on.
I know it’s going to happen.
And it still excites me every time.
McELHENNEY: This is technically a Season 1 episode.
So it’s going to go up onto the system as a bonus episode of Season 1.
That was her hugging her husband.
I was the only person out of the entire cast that ever left their house.
And when I say I left my house, I went onto my street.
So when you see me at night there, that’s me walking on my street.
And then I wind up going into my own garage.
He’s 6'2.
He’s a strapping man.
And I’m not.
One more logistical question about the episode Ashly Burch’s hair.
Is that something you wrote into the script because it’s what her hair looks like right now?
McELHENNEY: Well, it’s funny.
It was not written in the script.
She did have her wig with her, as well as Caitlin McGee, who plays Sue.
That is not [McGee’s] natural hair either.
That’s a wig.
And then Ashley was set up and it was the very first thing we shot.
And I spoke with her in the morning.
It was like 8 AM.
How is it that she’s getting her hair dyed?”
I’m helping my wife to color her own hair.
And I’m like, “Fuck it.
Take off the wig.”
So she takes off the wig and her hair looks cool.
And I’m like, “Great, let’s go with that.”
So that happened five minutes before we started rolling.
I have to wrap up, but I just wanted to say your house is lovely.
It seems like a nice place to quarantine in.
I mean, look, that’s really what we were addressing headfirst in the show.
And so look,Sunnyhas been on the air for 14 years.
I don’t think anybody thinks that I’m not doing pretty well, right?
Television, right or wrong, pays pretty well.
So we just kind of lead all the way into it.
Mythic Quest: Quarantineis available now on Apple TV+.
