Scrase also deep-dives into creating some of the Season 2 finale’s most breathtaking moments.
So Season 2 really ups the scale, ups the ante in just so many ways.
What did you find was your biggest challenge in realizing all that?
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It’s always a challenge, this show, because it’s a fantasy world.
So you’re making absolutely everything, from every costume, prop, set.
And we have a huge cast.
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So it’s all of that.
You mentioned the books earlier, they are sizable volumes of fantasy.
So picking stories from the books that’s going to expand their story.
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You get to know them and you get invested in them as people.
Theres quite a few, you know, Moraines backstory with her family.
There’s lots of stuff.
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Egwene too, I mean, the storyline with her and Renna.
For me, that episode 6 was just extraordinary.
I think that performance between Egwene and Renna is just so powerful.
Also Nyneve, in the earlier episode, in episode 3.
And Rand’s story is growing.
One of the things I love about Wheel of Time is how important love is to the story.
So I’m guessing that is also important to you.
Let’s go to the action.
Let’s go to the violence.
But it never leaves Wheel of Time.
And I think that’s fundamental.
It’s a hugely important part of it, both behind the camera and on.
Were all in Prague.
I wanna talk about realizing all that, mixing the magic on the VFX side with the choreography.
What goes into that?
So we have those two different components.
This was certainly something Kate Fleetwood said to me.
There was almost a little bit of an evolution as we move through the show.
Another sequence I really want to talk about is the Heroes of the Horn in the finale.
From your perspective, can you talk about bringing that whole sequence to life?
SCRASE: Yeah, absolutely.
The Heroes of the Horn, the horn being blown, and the heroes appearing.
It’s definitely a standout moment for the fan base, so one I was really interested in working.
In this instance, in the books when Mat blows the horn, a fog appears.
I was looking at things like the Holi festival and powder paints and fireworks within smoke.
I’m always trying to bring a bit of individuality where we can.
BRIAN SHOWS: I’m trying to think of how to answer that.
I think that would be a good one for Andy [Scrase].
Hes on the producer side of it.
He’s the creative on it.
So he could dive into that.
We collaborate behind the scenes, right?
Like I filter stuff into him.
SHOWS: it’s complicated in a way that it’s worldwide.
So there’s obstacles if you want to talk about that.
We have a team of people in Prague who are shooting and I go back and forth from Prague.
We have a team in London who are posting at the same time as we’re shooting.
So, logistically, it can be quite complicated, and that’s part of my part.
So it’s not nearly as exciting as the cool pictures [Laughs].
But there’s a lot that goes into making sure that this is [working].
It doesn’t work.
Is it fair to ask what the most difficult concept to realize on your end was?
Of his concepts when it funnels over to you?
SHOWS: My part is very practical in tool, right?
We go out and we find solutions, technology wise, to get him what he needs to do.
We have a team, a great team of people.
The Production Manager Julia [Marko], she’s great too.
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