00:00I think you get to really understand characters when all of their systems of
00:06comfort begin falling apart. You know, at heart this is a story about a hierarchy
00:09that comes unglued because of this disaster.
00:12Everybody was so interested in making this the most historically accurate show
00:17that they possibly could. Everything I sent to them they tried to recreate as
00:21faithfully as possible.
00:23Our situation is more dire than you may understand.
00:28Often when you you listen to survival stories the thing that they talk about
00:33most is about hope. The person who loses hope, who gives up hope, you die.
00:38If you know you're gonna die there that would even almost be more comforting but
00:43I just find it terrifying of we could escape we could escape and all of a sudden
00:47you see this landscape that stretches out forever and you're not sure.
00:52Death is slow in the great white nothing and 134 starved men will turn devil against you
01:00starting with the ones you hold closest.
01:03The terror in the show comes from multiple things not just a supernatural creature but other things as well.
01:09And for me it was relatively easy to provide the information about those things.
01:14We knew what the cans that may have poisoned the men with lead or with botulism looked like
01:20and so I attempted to provide as much information so they could make those as real as possible.
01:25We know what the ships were, how they looked and what their capabilities were and they were as responsible for the men being trapped as anything.
01:33This steam locomotion engine allowed them to penetrate further than they perhaps should have.
01:38What I wanted to do was definitely make sure that we grounded in reality so that it felt as real as possible
01:45and by following as much of the historical accuracy as possible and trying to make the sets and the backgrounds
01:51and the environments feel as real as possible so that it didn't feel in any way a kind of fantasy.
01:57If the leads close up and we are out there in it we'll have no idea where the current will move the pack of which we will be a part.
02:06I really loved dressing the naval uniforms, I mean getting those looking really sharp and handsome
02:14and a good fit was very challenging and you know very wonderful to achieve.
02:20This is Lady Silence's outerwear, this is her winter outfit.
02:25We decided to use authentic fur because it was most appropriate, dignified and to Inuit culture and the actors.
02:38We had the knowledge to survive this terrain whereas these crazy British naval creatures who wore these ludicrous Victorian naval outfits would not be able to survive.
02:54What could have done that?
02:57There must be a bear.
02:59A bear did that.
03:01We actually don't see the creature head on for many, many episodes because it's one of our rules of horror for this show.
03:06What you don't see is so much scarier than what you do see.
03:09So for that to be let out of the bag too soon we really knew that it was going to hurt.
03:13And even though we tell our audiences we know you want to see it but the reward is good if you just hold on.
03:20Patience, you'll be rewarded.
03:22There's a genre element to the story and the genre element if you like is a metaphor for their idea that they were able to bring all of their sense of entitlement and all of their sense of hubris with them.
03:37That because they were British that they were going to be able to master any situation they were in and ignore anyone else's experience.
03:47Coming at it from knowing that it's based on a true story that 129 men really did disappear in this environment.
03:56It puts a different responsibility on the narrative telling and we really wanted to tell the story just responsibly and it's a fantastic mystery.
04:07But to give our point of view of what these men could have gone through to take that survival story that we all love in fiction and to apply it to a true story just it's incredible.
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