Season 1 | show | 2024| S1 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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00:00It's a wildly happy set.

00:01Coming to work just feels like hanging out

00:03with, like, your 50 funniest friends.

00:05Yeah.

00:06We keep it light, we keep it tight.

00:07Yeah.

00:08Okay, and action.

00:11♪♪

00:14It's a workplace comedy about the making

00:16of a franchise superhero movie.

00:18We're following the crew as they try and keep

00:20their movie afloat amidst the madness.

00:22Rolling!

00:23The scale of these films is so extraordinary.

00:25You're always only a day away from absolute chaos.

00:28Action!

00:29We're watching the filming of Tecto, Eye of the Storm.

00:33The great eye!

00:34For a man with second sight!

00:36Why are you shouting?

00:37Why is he shouting?

00:39I'm ready to cut there.

00:40Through superhero films and film industry in general,

00:42it's like people trying to make great things

00:44and spending loads of hours every day

00:46trying to get it right.

00:48Everyone doing their job is giving it

00:50their absolute maximum, but what they're making

00:52is a movie about an earthquake man

00:54based on a comic from the 40s

00:56that was never meant to be this thing.

00:58I'm not gonna look like an asshole up there.

01:00No, look, I feel fucking excellent, okay?

01:03Himesh Patel plays Daniel, the first assistant director.

01:07Lollie Adephopi plays Dagg, who's the third.

01:10Tough, isn't it? The biz.

01:12Their basic function is to get through

01:13to the end of the day successfully.

01:15That's their job.

01:15Not panicking.

01:17Just take five, everyone!

01:18Billy Magnusson plays the lead character

01:20of the movie that they're making.

01:21And Richard E. Grant is playing a character called Peter.

01:24Quiet on set!

01:26They hate each other.

01:27They hate each other.

01:28They absolutely despise each other.

01:30Just quietly.

01:31Number one is pretending to be on a drill.

01:34And then you have the European auteur director

01:36who's come in from his first and only independent hit.

01:40And then you have the American producers

01:43played by Aya Cash and Darren.

01:45Ah, there they are!

01:47Team Tecto, the real heroes.

01:50You see us working with, like, the costumers

01:52and the sound department and VFX.

01:54We are playing these parts, but then there are also people

01:56on the set who are actually doing these jobs.

01:59When you're seeing offices, those are also the offices

02:02of the HBO show, the franchise.

02:04I love those scenes where you're sort of going

02:06through all the action and you're seeing

02:08all this life in the background.

02:09There's so much specificity in the world

02:11that's created here that's just really dreamy to be a part of.

02:15Let's pre-vis our happy faces and go tell the man

02:18we hate how much we love him.

02:19A lot of the experiences that we were having in the show,

02:22we were also having on set.

02:24Like, we're having actors up on wires,

02:26and in the script, they're uncomfortable

02:27because they're on wires, but then the actual actors

02:29are uncomfortable because they're on wires.

02:30Can we go down? I can't feel my balls.

02:32And no one let him down because they thought

02:33he was in the scene.

02:34And cut!

02:35Someone will say, cut, and then there'll be

02:36some confusion as to whether that is a line

02:38in the script or whether people really want you

02:40to stop acting.

02:41All right, let's turn over.

02:43In the end, it's about a group of people

02:45worrying if they're killing cinema

02:47or indeed reinvigorating it.

02:50There's value.

02:51There's something at stake for these characters as they move

02:53through this world of creating the franchise.

02:55When they're really done well, that can be funny

02:57and moving and characterful, I don't think

02:59there's anything better than that.

03:02It's not just a takedown of franchise movies.

03:04There's something heroic about the act of making any movie

03:07these days against all the odds.

03:09Bah!

03:10Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

03:13And we've cut there.

03:14We've cut there.

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