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Warning: Massive spoilers below.
It took about three days to film all of the portions of this.
Involved in all that was the element of the kidnapping of these two women.
They were great actors and very game, and everybody understood what we were trying to tell.
And also being like, Evan Peters!
It actually wasnt his final shot.
After that, he did a couple more days.
His last scene was actually in the same episode, the date he goes on with Mare.
But it just made it a very big challenge.
The planning started with the action.
This is a unique location that kind of only exists in a place like the outer Philadelphia suburbs.
That led to, Okay, how do we tell the story this way?
It drove a lot of conversations on how the design of it would happen.
It became important for us to do a rehearsal of that, which doesnt always happen in TV.
I remember it was the day that the election results came in, which happened in Philadelphia.
We spent an entire afternoon, two days prior to shooting, just doing it.
It becomes a bit like figuring out a dance.
Id propose something that I think will work.
Kate has an idea.
Jeb has an idea.
Then, more set dressing happens.
In terms of dialogue, all of that was the same.
The actors also did a majority of their own stunts.
We had doubles there for everyone, but for the most part, everybody did their own stuff.
Kate is very down for that and excited to do it.
Her careening down the steps?
Evan Peters falling to the ground was all him.
I was totally impressed by that hes done it before, but its hard to die on camera.
In our minds, that [death] was part of the story arc of that character.
In the edit, it was a matter of making sure you could see he was shot.
The hardest stuff was really being able to get the speed at which they were running.
Its pretty hard to move these big cameras fast enough to capture a moving body.
He laid there probably longer than he should have.
A lot of things got knocked down, lots of blood.
Im happy with it.
This is a superior cut to that.
But yeah, it was a whole ballet.
