Warning: This article contains spoilers for the second episode ofHis Dark Materials, The Idea of North.
So, they had to find other threads to follow.
Boreal also brings a healthy drop of thriller genre with him and we wanted to make use of that.
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He arrives at Jordan College to investigate what Lord Asriel presented as the beheaded remains of scholar Stanislaus Grumman.
They just said that he was a man of secrets, in his own world.
He was a scholar of Jordan College.
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Part of The Magisterium and that his one weakness was Mrs. Coulter.
Bakare further used Boreals daemon, a snake, to flesh out the persona.
When Boreal learns Asriel lied about Stanislaus, he decides he must cross.
The decision to show Boreals cross-world dealings came during filming already commenced on season 1, according to Bakare.
It was just an interesting time because no one knew what it would be like.
No one knew if it would actually fit with the scripts we had already, but it really worked.
I told Jane and everybody else, and everyone seemed to like it, Bakare says.
Another big tweak from book-to-screen is the time period.
We wanted to make it work for 2019 and Philip was fine on that, she says.
We then were just mindful of how technology makes a difference…
They want the world to be the same so they can control it.
In Wills world, hes much more of a power figure, Bakare elaborates of Boreal.
In Lyras world, hes a worker.
He works for other people.
Hes more like a servant, like MI5 or something.
In Wills world, he is his own man.
Hes just a powerful person.
That makes him even more controlled, more tight in his own being as a person.
Bakare notes that Boreal is the only person withinHis Dark Materialswhos actually a proper adversary to Marisa.
We find these kind of tensions that sometimes are not even on the page.
Its more of what we dont say thats more exciting.
