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00:30We had all worked so hard.
00:32It was so satisfying seeing it come together as a show.
00:55Episode 4 is Dunk's Dark Night of the Soul.
00:57Outside in the courtyard at night, the rain has picked up.
01:01Dunk emerges from Ashford Castle.
01:03The night is half gone.
01:06Tonally, we really wanted to feel the psychological weight of Dunk's death sentence.
01:14They can't kill me twice.
01:16For the actual battle sequence, it needs to be really muddy and messy.
01:20So it needs to be raining a lot the night before.
01:24We do that sort of one-er that follows him.
01:27It's almost like an echo of the previous night and that other one-er.
01:30Similar but different because now he's alone.
01:33Sir Duncan, if you all come for your shield, she left it with me.
01:39Dunk's shield, which was Sir Arlen's, has the biggest journey of its own throughout this show.
01:44You are not of Sir Arlen's blood.
01:46No, I am not.
01:47You must need to find a new device, a sigil of your own.
01:52It's another one of those nudges that says, go off and be your own person.
01:58The designs for this, we ended up much closer to the book.
02:02I like to honor George and the artwork from his books has always been a major source of pride for
02:08him.
02:09Gets a new paint job from Tanzel.
02:11So there you go, you've got the elm tree on sunset and the shooting star.
02:14It was a really challenging shield to paint because of the worn roughness of the wood effect on Sir Arlen's
02:21shield.
02:22We remade it with a cleaner version of the wood.
02:25We told ourselves story-wise that that would have happened when Steely Pate was renovating it.
02:30The final result is an emblem for who Dunk is.
02:35This tall, sturdy tree of a human being.
02:40At the edge of the paddock, down from their horses except for one, are four knights.
02:47Egg has brought those knights there.
02:49He goes off and he says, I can find knights for you, sir.
02:52Cannot thank you enough.
02:53Nor is it Stevron for bringing you.
02:55The fuck is it Stevron?
02:57Your boy family.
02:59Being Squire, I've trained a lot for this.
03:02I just started watching Cobra Kai and I said, Cece, do you know any karate?
03:06And he said, yes.
03:07And I said, can you teach me?
03:08And he said, yeah.
03:10Hand to ear.
03:11We're going to step out.
03:12Bring our hand in front and we're going to drop down.
03:15One.
03:16Perfect.
03:18With the Targaryen costume, the sash is like red on the inside and black on the out.
03:23So I went to Cece and I went, I got to black belt.
03:28Right.
03:29Nice job.
03:31We have a lot of fun, me and Dexter.
03:33Trying to do a hat trick.
03:34Right, come on.
03:35Oh!
03:36That was so close.
03:38Every day when we have a bit of free time, we're like, oots, oots, oots.
03:42They're about to go fight a trial.
03:44And Egg's just practicing, just in case they need a seventh or an eighth.
03:50On Dunk's side, it was a motley crew of, you know, people that just showed up.
03:55They didn't all dress together and line up.
03:58With Dunk's armor, the key was to make it really simple.
04:01I think we got there in the end with a beautiful helmet with no embellishment.
04:05His presence alone would make him so heroic looking.
04:09We made the chainmail shirt.
04:11It's riveted steel mail.
04:13He was actually quite keen to wear the steel as opposed to the aluminium.
04:16And that really helps because it gives a genuine feel of weight in the movement.
04:22We got two gauntlets, one of which doesn't have the fist gauntlet because of jousting,
04:28because holding the reins and stuff, and obviously the shield over that as well.
04:32There's like a concept art that was based on the graphic novel.
04:35I really loved that picture, so it was just, it's so cool to see it all in the finished product.
04:43Baratheon armor, we have obviously the Baratheon referencing with the antlers, but kind of taken to the extreme.
04:49With all sincerity, it is the most unwieldy and unbalanced piece of costume I have ever worn.
04:56You can't see anything, and it's so heavy that the whole thing is dragging your head back.
05:00But it just looks so cool, it had to be done.
05:04Robin Riesling, he is, for lack of a better word, a hippie knight who doesn't dress himself or his horse
05:11in any leather products.
05:12It's difficult to go to the, we call it a 10-1, which is code for a pee-pee on
05:17set.
05:18That's very difficult, especially in armored gloves.
05:23Each one of our armors is very different.
05:27That has been a representation of people's characters at their core.
05:31Darren is straight from the book.
05:33He's got a little green feather on his helm.
05:36The armor was very involved.
05:38It's based on a 14th century coat of plates.
05:42A little over 200 panels just on the torso and skirts combined.
05:46I have a nice, great big plate with the beautiful apples.
05:50We had some great fittings.
05:52It was really helpful for me to start finding his presence.
05:55Sir Stefan, one of your friends.
05:57We need one more to make our seven.
06:00I fight with Prince Arian and the accusers.
06:06I know none of you remember Sir Ireland of Pennytree, but I was his squire.
06:11When Peter was doing that speech, we were all so transfixed.
06:15In that moment, it felt like Peter himself became Dunk the Tall.
06:21We were watching the birth of a true knight.
06:24He was a good man and he taught me how to be a knight.
06:28Not a sword and lance, but honor.
06:30I was not his blood, but I have followed his example.
06:33As your sons would follow in yours.
06:36As courage deserted the noble houses of Westeros.
06:40I will not believe in his soul.
06:43It was kind of an emotional thing to actually be doing it in real life after months and months ago
06:48trying to get it right to get the role.
06:51Are there no two knights among you?
06:54Peter was really quite a skilled writer.
06:57I'll forever have a spot in my heart for Garacha, who played Thunder.
07:01He was just incredible that day.
07:03I kind of did something and I thought I was going to get in trouble.
07:06I wasn't allowed to canter, but I took off canter.
07:10All the extras started chanting.
07:14I'm never, ever, ever going to forget that, ever.
07:20Episode 5, we go into a little bit of a longer story with Dunk.
07:26How he came up and how that is going to make itself important in the Trial of Seven.
07:33All of the flashbacks to be deliberately, slightly stylized.
07:37You probably don't even notice when you're watching it.
07:40The camera doesn't really move.
07:41It's not a handheld camera, your memory.
07:43It does tend to be postcards of moments.
07:47Also changed the framing a little bit.
07:49More centralized, more air over the head, kind of show, dunk, being more vulnerable.
07:55Stick him!
07:583, 2, 1.
08:00May not find me!
08:04Danny is an incredible physical actor.
08:08Him drunk and having to turn on a dime and become Dunk's hero.
08:13You're acquiring someone who can find those levels of performance and make them feel utterly natural.
08:20Danny Webb was amazing.
08:22He picked a sword out and I thought, oh, this has made my life easy.
08:27Because I designed the sword for Dunk, it wasn't ideal for Danny because Danny's a lot smaller than Peter.
08:32We did end up taking a couple of inches off the blade for Danny.
08:36Set, here we go.
08:37Just so he could manage it and draw it from the scabbard.
08:49So much of that was Danny himself.
08:52I'd done sword fighting through the years.
08:55Theatre and drama schools.
08:58Up.
09:00Going up.
09:02We'd actually choreographed a lot.
09:05I was told that one was a little bit like a drunken master
09:08You'll see him slip one way, slip the other
09:10But it all sort of flashes back
09:12It was interesting determining how drunk Sir Arlen was
09:16And as a result of that, how much of his qualities of a swordsman
09:20Would shine through or not shine through
09:22Dunk's fighting with all of those attributes
09:25The flashback started to bring to life
09:27Dunk would know how to street fight, at least
09:36But coming into a joust, this is huge
09:43Seven on seven, it's a bit like somebody saying
09:46You're going to do a demolition derby, but with horses
09:49I'm like, yeah, I'm in
09:51Me and Owen were a little bit terrified on doing this
09:55If he's unsafe, don't do it
09:59Brother against brother
10:01Uncle against nephew
10:03It's really going to go down in the history books
10:07We've been used to seeing Ashford in a certain way
10:10And it's vibrant and it's alive
10:11And all of a sudden, it's been cloaked in something that feels more sinister
10:16To keep an entire valley cloaked in fog
10:20It's super tricky
10:21We had smoke machines in every type
10:24For out there, we would use exterior fog
10:26Food-grade mineral oil
10:27You just heat it and it vaporizes and creates fog
10:32The smoke is going to be coming from one direction
10:34And then you could see it go that way
10:35Because there would be a wind that
10:37You get to a point where you're like, this is all I've got
10:40Hopefully this is enough
10:42The continuity is all over the place
10:44We're having to add layers in the foreground, midground and background
10:48And painstakingly roto around each character, each element in the shot
10:52We ended up with about 210 fog shots
10:57We had actually done some tests and you only see your opponents at the last moment
11:05The atmos does create a brilliant atmosphere
11:08But we do have to be careful to make sure these guys and these horses can see what they're doing
11:12The seven versus seven is different to any joust that's ever been seen before
11:16Because the tilts have been removed
11:18The fact that there's 14 horses in this small arena
11:21Galloping towards each other with lances and shields
11:23That's a massive challenge in itself
11:25The horses have got to be trained to use then the shields as markers
11:29And they're used to kind of going through the fences
11:32That's something that becomes a bit more complicated in your rehearsals with horses
11:37All of these sorts of layers just to sort of isolate dunk
11:41It was really challenging that it's worth it
11:44Because you get this very dramatic setting for this perilous clash
11:52I thought it'd be soup, but it was banana smoothie
11:56I love bananas, so I was alright with it
11:58Yeah, I didn't mind
12:00Grin fucking boys
12:02He's now fighting the entire royal family, basically
12:08It's to the death
12:09If that doesn't make you nervous, you're Batman
12:14Be vigilant
12:16Don't die
12:21There's a line from the novella
12:23The narrow eye slit of the great helm limited Dunk's vision to what was directly ahead of him
12:29Being inside that helmet and making it have that claustrophobic feeling
12:34Seeing the horses coming at us from inside this visor
12:36It's a view that we've not had as an audience
12:38I want to know what it feels like to be a knight charging into battle
12:42So I've developed a shot where we actually put a camera on a white cam
12:46And we'll fly into the back of his helmet
13:18Obviously, that rider would be protected by a helmet
13:18I put a camera onto my chest or horse rider's chest
13:21So it's the hidden cuts that jump into inside the helmet
13:29You don't have 360 vision
13:31So it'll really make you feel like you're in there
13:44The shield immediately gets blown to shit
13:48Ending any hopes that this might turn out well for him
13:53Arian's grey stallion barrels into him at full gallop
13:58Only very few times do we go handheld in the show
14:06It just was a way of us pinning ourselves to Dunk
14:09What was taking place around him
14:11I like the fact that mud hits the lens, blood hits the lens
14:14It's shocking
14:17And I want to find moments that shock us all
14:21Obviously, Peter is a very big man
14:23And I am a slightly shorter man
14:26Dunk's character is big and strong
14:27And not as trained as the others
14:29And we have Arian who's a bit more alive
14:31So we definitely want to see that
14:33Everybody moves different
14:36Peter worked very, very hard
14:37And he got very, very good
14:39It was great because we just got to be two children
14:42Playing with swords every day
14:43What I'm going to do
14:44You're going to put a thrust to you
14:46And you're going to block it
14:48He's very physically able
14:50Retend the choreography really well
14:52And it was like, ooh, okay
14:54I don't want you to be too good
14:56Because Dunk, he hasn't got that experience behind him
15:00Peter's like, he's a blank canvas
15:01So with me, I have a fight coordinator, Troy Milanoff
15:05Troy works for Pete now
15:06And Troy will ground him a little bit
15:10There are parts of that sword fight that are actually me
15:13It's pretty cool
15:14The way Dunk has this kind of brute strength
15:17I wanted Arian to be really quick and aggressive
15:20Add this, like, kind of angry flavor to it
15:24Arian's slightly like an assassin
15:25And he has this horrible sword
15:28In the script it's described as thin, long and pointy
15:31And that's always a challenge
15:32Because he's going to be fighting against the broadsword
15:34Which isn't
15:36You want to feel like these two swords
15:38Can actually fight each other
15:40We've had to try and make it a lot wider
15:42Than we would normally
15:43You can see there
15:44That's the two different thicknesses of blade
15:46Otherwise, this won't last two minutes
15:55Everything about his fighting style
15:57And the weapons he uses
15:58It's just, like, nasty
15:59There's nothing honorable about the way he fights
16:07We think we've devised a very cool way of getting Dunk's helmet off
16:10It's not too early in the fight
16:13So that we can keep our cool stunt guy fighting
16:16My stuntman, Jula, that was playing all the stuff with the helmet on
16:21And then Finn's stunt guy, Zach
16:23It was actually an honor to go out there and give those guys a break
16:30Huge credit to Zach
16:32The armor was as comfortable as it could possibly be
16:35But, you know, it's clunky
16:37It's meant to protect you
16:39He moved so fluidly in it
16:41It is unbelievable how he managed to do that
16:45And pull
16:47They deserve a hell of a lot of credit for this fight scene
16:59Peter's big swollen eye
17:01We tape his eye shut with a little bit of wig lace
17:04And then we just glue this whole thing over the top
17:07So it's like a big rubber eye patch
17:09We soaked them with all this blood
17:12Which was made primarily from sugar
17:15They were a huge target for the wasps
17:19My God, was there a lot of wasps
17:22Lots of wasps
17:28I think everybody knew that it was pretty tough
17:31With, like, the wind, the rain, the mud, the wasps
17:39We wanted to have this feeling that it was hiring
17:42And we were in it and we were feeling it
17:45That's what the guys will be feeling inside the armor
17:48He's dead!
17:50It's over!
17:52You know, me and Pete
17:53We're going to kind of limp to our chair
17:54And we're going to sit down
17:56And pass a bottle of water back and forth
17:58And, okay, we've got to go again
18:00And we were pretty exhausted from doing all the stuff anyway
18:03So it, like, contributed to the exhaustion
18:06That Dunk and Arian felt
18:09Dunk grabs a hold of Arian's shield with two hands
18:11And twists it until the straps break
18:14Arian can do nothing
18:16As Dunk brings the shield down
18:18On top of the princeling's helm
18:19Before Arian's shield
18:21We've had to manufacture a crumple version
18:23When he is struck with it
18:25At the bottom here, it is soft
18:28But inside is a patch of lead
18:32It's going to crumple in camera
18:36It did exactly what it says in the tin
18:38It just kept, obviously, smashing
18:40As if it was smashing for real
18:43All I had to worry about was going as hard as I could
18:46And Peter, he went
18:47Oh, I think I'd like to give him a couple more punches
18:52And we're like, yeah, why not?
18:55So Arian's look
18:57We have a few lacerations on the face
18:59It should just feel frantic and scrappy and bloody
19:01And they put all this kind of, like, dental barriers in my mouth
19:05That made it look like it was swollen
19:07Are you?
19:08Are you?
19:10This is the moment of triumph for Dunk
19:13We wanted him to tower in the sky
19:15That's why we kept the camera low
19:17And tracked along with them
19:19To get that hero shot
19:23That really sucked
19:25Yeah, I'm good, you?
19:27Yeah
19:27They have the kind of, like, harness on you
19:30And then they cut a hole in your costume
19:32And you're being dragged from an anchor
19:34When we did that, I remember saying to Owen
19:37Yeah, no, listen, if the wire's shown, don't worry, man
19:41I'll pull him
19:42Yeah, it'll be fine
19:43And then we took the wire off
19:45And I tried to pull him
19:46And I was like
19:47It's like trying to pull a sack of spoons
19:50Through all the muck
19:51And I was like, yeah, I'm going to need the wire
19:54My armor got caught in the mud
19:56And the thing was still going
19:58But my arm was very much left behind
20:00But it's all pretty fun
20:03We're actually going home together
20:06You're going to have a bike together
20:08Are you?
20:09Yeah
20:09This is called a crazy one night's day
20:11Yeah
20:13Just performing that level of exhaustion
20:15Take after take
20:16By the end of a shooting day like that
20:18They were both destroyed
20:20This night who you've been pulling for
20:22Has been part of something far bigger
20:25Than anything he could have ever dared to imagine
20:32But tragedy is not done with Dunk
20:35Originally, we planned to shoot the ending scene
20:38Under a canopy out amongst the tents
20:40It was quite challenging
20:42Because first of all
20:43You'd have lots of people still around
20:44So it felt like we needed to give it its own setting
20:48Owen came up with the idea
20:49When he saw that pathway
20:51It gives you the privacy that that sort of scene needs
20:55I need good men, Sir Duncan
20:57The realm
21:00Baylor's helmet was very important
21:01And I wanted the eye drawn to it
21:03Sir Raymond
21:05My helm
21:06If you would be so kind
21:08The design has a real strange
21:10Almost alien look about it
21:12That makes me attracted to it
21:15But without telling me something's about to go down
21:20Baylor's head had a section of skull removed
21:22And we do see through to the brain
21:24We worked with Pippa and her prosthetics team
21:27To put something there that we can use
21:30What they call an appliance
21:31Which would look photographically correct
21:34In the space, in the lights
21:35She had kind of brain matter
21:38And the skull missing
21:39Our goal is to kind of sink that in
21:41Make it look deep
21:46I held back a bit in going full pelt
21:49And the injuries
21:49Because we're not going for gore in this moment
21:52Things like gushing blood
21:53Not cause need to stare at this wound too long
21:57To get it quickly
21:58And get back to the character
22:00And what this moment means
22:02Jurgis, get up, sir
22:04Get up, sir
22:07Get up
22:08Dunk begs him to stand
22:10But the prince is gone
22:11And does not rise
22:15Baylor of House Targaryen
22:18Heir apparent to the Iron Throne
22:21We've got funeral pyre
22:23Where we are
22:24Like this Targaryen kind of setting
22:25And the area's like volcanic
22:27We'll have some little steam sources
22:29Just to try and help sell it a little bit more
22:32I just think obviously did the Valar scene
22:34He's just lost his father
22:35And he's completely out at sea and lost
22:38But I didn't actually see any full scripts
22:40Until the table read
22:42I think I was struck by how different it was
22:44To how I'd expected it to be
22:45He had in him to be a great king
22:48The greatest since Aegon the Dragon
22:51Why would the gods take him and leave you?
22:54There's a scene where
22:56Dunk goes to talk to Baylor
22:58In the solar
22:59That scene is like night
23:00Very candlelit
23:02And then
23:03He goes to talk to Maker
23:06Completely different feel
23:07It was very deliberate
23:09Make it feel like
23:10The castle is colder
23:11There's something about mutating
23:14The way a place feels
23:16Depending on where is your character
23:18Some men will say
23:19I meant to kill my brother
23:21He is probably the one who did it
23:25The gods know it is a lie
23:27But I will hear the whispers
23:28You can find reasons for it being an accident
23:32Maybe so enough doubt in your mind
23:35To help you believe that it might not have been you
23:38He has to contend with this
23:40As he says
23:41To the day I die
23:44My youngest son seems to have grown fond of you, sir
23:47He tells me he will serve no knight but you
23:51Beg your pardon, lord
23:53But I think I'm done with princes
23:57I think we're really worried for
23:59What will become of Egg
24:01If he doesn't go with Dunk
24:02Maybe you're not the knight
24:04I thought you were
24:05He clearly has a very dark side
24:07You know, he has called for Aaron's death
24:09Several times
24:10There is a big difference
24:12Between feeling that sort of rage
24:15And carrying on with it
24:17He's ultimately not that person
24:20It's almost a moment of relief
24:22When we see that he goes with Dunk
24:26Maybe there's a chance
24:27Egg could still turn out okay
24:28My lord father says I am to serve you
24:32When Egg shows up
24:34It's a little ambiguous
24:36Whether Makar thinks Egg just ran away again
24:40I will take Egg to Squire
24:43But not at Summerhall
24:44Makar didn't say no
24:47He said
24:48He's my last son
24:50In the book
24:51Makar has a very similar conversation with Dunk
24:54At his camp
24:55But then disappears
24:57So we still actually even in the book
24:59Don't ever see the moment
25:00Of Makar saying yes you can go
25:03Where the fuck is Egg gone?
25:05This started as a joke
25:07And then it ended as something that's in our show
25:09So
25:13Our unlikely duo back on the road again
25:17Peter and Dexter had to come into that huge world
25:21And be confident
25:23And that was a big big ask
25:24I found myself championing both of them
25:28As much as I wanted the story to sort of champion Dunk and Egg
25:31It really became for me about wanting to give them their best shot
25:35That felt good
25:38Dexter is a damn good actor
25:41He's been brilliant on this
25:42And it's been lovely getting to normal
25:44The two of them together
25:46This was the show
25:48Let's go to the Titanic
25:50What do I make?
25:51I want to be a knight but I don't know how to sew a patch
25:56The moment rap was called
25:59Everybody just felt so thrilled
26:01I think the last bit of rap was actually in Titanic
26:03We had like just a few pickups we needed to do
26:06Good and reset
26:08Reset
26:09Just getting back inside the studio felt like a victory
26:13We'd made it through all these exteriors and all the great unknown
26:17Everything was so tough
26:19But everyone worked so hard to accomplish it
26:23It feels like it's gone so fast
26:26But also feels like I've been here forever
26:29Everybody felt a great sense of achievement
26:31That's a wrap on season one
26:33It was really emotional
26:38The rap day was actually my birthday
26:40Happy birthday to you
26:44They brought me the cake which was amazing
26:46I personally love birthdays on set
26:52It's fucking great
26:53With this say it's been a very very special group of people
26:58People that I'll speak to for probably the rest of my life
27:02I know he's got an allergy
27:03I really want him to go
27:06Oh man just to be like part of the history books
27:09People have done like fan art
27:10And that fan art is going to be pictures of me now
27:13Such a shit thing to say
27:17It's the first of three of George's beloved novellas
27:21Hopefully it's got a long way to go
27:24Get it Roger
27:27I think we had all felt like we had done something special
27:30Now it's time for a whole new adventure
27:33Just a massive thank you to everybody that's made this possible
27:39Can't wait to fucking do it again
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