![]() This is truly an extraordinary show, exploring so many important issues among such diverse characters. I had no idea that was going to happen because it wasn’t in the script, so you have to be ready for just about anything. In terms of locations, I remember being in Amsterdam and we ended up shooting in The Hague, in a very modern station because Lana wanted to have a contrast between the modern station and an older location, and to cut between the two. While it may not be as arduous, you have to drop in, at any given moment, and there’s no easy way of doing that. What was your shooting schedule like, this season?ĪNDREWS: We go from location to location, all the time. You had an unusual shooting location during the first season. That’s when I started to have a sense of the character, actually working on set. With Lana, you have to be open because then you can discover things that are deeply buried and that people don’t really show, in everyday life. As the camera moves, she’ll ask you to say lines, as a different character or in a different voice, all of which might be disconcerting, if you had a very set or fixed idea of how you wanted to render a character. In this case, she literally will be talking to you, as you’re shooting the scene, right behind the cameraman. For me, I began to get a sense of the character from actually working with Lana on set and how she chooses to work with actors. What’s important with a character like Jonas is what’s not actually said.ĭo you feel like you had a true sense of who Jonas was and how he fit into the bigger picture, from the beginning, or did you have a moment where all of that clicked for you?ĪNDREWS: It’s a little bit more complex than that. At the same time, there’s a purity and an innocence to him, which you can see in the flashbacks. What Lana is trying to do is intrigue an audience to imagine what it would be like to really feel empathy.ĪNDREWS: Oh, yes, absolutely! It was Jonas, from the beginning, yeah.īecause he is such a mysterious character, what is it about Jonas that you find most compelling? Is that mystery part of the intrigue for you?ĪNDREWS: Absolutely! He seems to be burdened with a terrible kind of knowledge. When we started, it was starting to happen in Eastern Europe, and then, of course, recent developments in this country and in England with Brexit got even worse. And then, the fact that it was reflective of what’s been happening around the world. ![]() They’re both artists, and that’s what drew me to it, initially. You couldn’t have known what the full journey was going to be for your character, so what was it that originally appealed to you about Sense8 and ultimately intrigued you enough to sign on for the show?ĪNDREWS: First of all, this is the Wachowskis, and they were genuinely, sincerely trying to do a good piece of art. We bonded in San Francisco, before we started the first season, and that’s still all there. ![]() You just have to be ready for it, be malleable, and be able to adapt. We had that in the first season, but it continued in Season 2. You have to memorize dialogue very, very quickly sometimes because Lana is constantly rewriting. NAVEEN ANDREWS: There was a whole new set of challenges, but at the same time, it was tempered by the fact that we were used to the schedule, in terms of its unpredictability. ![]()
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