The first season is beautifully modulated, but its largely introducing the lead characters.
Were very proud of it.
This last one was largely [co-creator/EP] Lana [Wachowski].
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That helps a lot when youve got that sort of back up.
How far ahead do you have the mythology of the sensates fleshed out?
That, by definition, means the script is always changing.
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The characters are always changing.
Again, I dont know how she does it.
A lot of its written, but a lot of its in her mind.
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Thats the engine that keeps it all together.
BPO is basically hunting the sensates.
Sometimes that leads to killing, sometimes that leads to them trying to extract the knowledge.
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Or do they just want to use them as anything from basic slaves to these weird killing machines?
I dont think weve really found out where on the scale thats going to land.
Can it be brought back to something thats ultimately beneficial or have they totally gone rogue?
The thing with the clusters is, none of them know how many other clusters there are.
And all of those clusters arent necessarily at the same state of evolution.
When did you know this season would end with all of the members of our cluster meeting?
She always felt that would be an appropriate place to end the season.
When you start, things do evolve.
You dont end up where you think you would.
In this case, its where she had in mind as being an obvious or strong point to end.
One of the most striking scenes this season was that pride festival in Brazil.
So we gave it up as something we would try next season.
So thats what it is.
They got up in the morning, no looking around, no camera positions.
Just, Heres your float.
You wont be off it for eight hours.
And whatever you get during that time is what you get.
It totally was just us grabbing at it when we had a chance.Sometimes those things dont work.
This worked spectacularly well.
Seoul grew a little bit as we wrote up the escape scene [for Sun].
We ended up with a big action scene in the middle of the city.
Its sort of strange because we shot most of it in two nights.
Which is very ambitious particularly if youre doing big, complex action stuff and moving every ten days.
The production is a big goliath of a thing.
Youre moving between 15 cities and 12 countries.
So that dictates a certain element.
That creates a momentum in itself that feeds into each other and the script as we go along.
That was a tremendously important decision to make because it gives you that feeling.
Youre looking out at Nairobi, at the outskirts of town, and its real.
And when you go to shoot a chase sequence in Seoul, its real.
All their characters come forward strongly in each of those cities.
This season, in particular, has given Doona Bae some great action sequences.
She wasnt a sporty person, so we started to train her up a bit.
She worked really hard and enjoyed it, so she would do a little bit more next time.
In a very short time, she was like, Hey!
I can do that.
Weve got some good people around her, so shes sort of protected.
But shes game for anything.
I suppose well start talking now to see where we go.
Sense8season 2 is currently available to stream on Netflix.
