The writers wanted to one-up the dolphin scene from season 1.
And they did it.
For season 2, the crew had something different in mind.
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“I think he specifically wanted to top the dolphin.
Through his persistence and passion for the idea, he won me over.
So hey send all your hate mail to him.”
“I go in there and it’s like, ‘So, hey.
If the boat hit a whale, is that hard?'”
I was like, ‘Yeah, but we’ll do it if we gotta do it.’
The dolphin scene took about six to eight hours to film in season 1, by Fleet’s estimates.
The Toronto-based production turned to Lake Ontario, which brought rougher beach weather and choppy waters.
They had a game plan.
The production would have two units going.
“It’s chopping up and down.
Let’s go!”
“That’s VFX.
But we slowed it down and there’s little blood squirts coming out of it.
So much of what we do [on this show] is the timing of blood squirts.”
For the moment of impact, canons were in place to shower the boat in blood.
But, he confirms, “that is 100 percent a set we build” on the beach.
Fleet estimates it took about five months to create the whale set.
They did all their research.
They had them on a table and they’d walk us down.
It’s like we’re sampling food for a restaurant.
‘This is a whale spleen!'"
“I wanna say it was like 100 degrees out and they were like, ‘Here.
Quite genuinely that is one of, if not my favorite scene in season 2.
I think it just shows how far we can push the envelope and get away with it.
When you see a big sequence like that, its still anchored in the needs of character.
The Boys are trying to get away and The Deep is trying to get back into the Seven.
Fleet, sadly, doesn’t know what happened to Lucy.
Storage is expensive,” he says.
