I heard you guys wanted to see what the day is like.
So today's a bit of a chaotic day to drop in
because yesterday it was summer and today it is winter,
and so the whole day is rescheduled.
And action.
Weather was obviously not what we expected.
Some of the thoughts when it first snowed were definitely
how are we gonna do this?
This is quite extreme to get this amount of snow
in November here.
We're just right down
to the wire getting it all in.
This last episode of the season
is The Umbrella Academy facing the snow.
Hello, I'm Steven Seagal, and this is episode 10
of The Umbrella Academy.
Three, two, one, blink.
Hello, there.
I'm Ritu Arya, better known as
Lila, the handler's daughter,
and I'll be your guide for this episode of What It Takes,
where we look behind the scenes of episode 10
of the latest season of The Umbrella Academy.
Yes, it's exactly as cold as it looks.
How are you doing this?
All right, heading to the hair and makeup trailer.
Here we are.
Well, this episode, we are
now officially all fugitives
of the law.
So we've kind of all come together for the first time
and are trying to problem solve as best we can,
as best our family can because, you know,
sometimes we're not great at that.
Okay, so we're here at Sissy's ranch,
and we got a lot of work to do here.
Getting set up now for the first shot,
where there's going to be a big action sequence.
So we're getting set up for that now.
We got a lot of snow early,
uh, climate crisis.
So that's happening.
So a lot of the scenes had to be readjusted.
It's freezing.
Slight problem.
This is quite extreme to get this amount of snow
in November here.
The finale of this season takes place on Sissy's ranch
in Texas in the middle of spring,
which, as it turns out, is a hard look to get
when you're shooting in Canada in November.
The weather has taken a turn and now, all of the sudden,
there is a blanket of snow.
When we started our planning for this,
we were expecting to be finished
before the weather turned,
but that hasn't happened.
So that will cause our plan to have to be modified.
I am just very thankful
that I am not in any of that.
I wish my castmates,
my family all the best in the snowstorm.
I hope they figure it out.
I think we're handling it quite nicely.
We're about to do a barn scene.
It's the fight scene between me and Lila.
Should be pretty fun.
See you guys in there.
All right, so quick
safety notes here, guys.
Obviously we've got a lot
of snow on the ground.
It's slippery coming into the barn.
Watch your step.
Anybody have any Christmas videos they want to shoot?
Now's the time.
As a brand new honoree Hargreeves sibling,
I got to battle alongside the siblings
against their greatest foe yet, inclement Canadian weather.
Bottom mark.
It's actually so cold we were told in the scene to,
maybe, hold our breath so that
we didn't have to have all
this breath showing on camera,
but it's kind of impossible.
It's freezing.
I was like covered in all these heat pads.
I had like one here, here, here, here, here on my back.
They're called Hot Hands.
It's to kind of maintain your
hands warm at this point.
So these are heaters.
Canadians will understand what this is
because they have to deal with it.
People like me from Los Angeles, this is very strange.
So we used a lot of these fake knees,
basically a wetsuit in the color of skin,
but you can see the seam.
That's not stitches, my friends.
Yeah, this is what it's like shooting The Umbrella Academy.
It's generally very cold.
We didn't think it was gonna be quite as bad as that.
So we got to move the crew later today
and seek weather cover.
So we're going to be going back to the studio today.
A part of this job is adapting, it's schedules changing
all the time, it's weather affecting everything.
So that's just a part of it.
All right, everybody's very pleased to get out of the cold
and get out of the snow.
Obviously we're in a much more
of a controlled environment
here and it's a lot warmer.
Oh, boy.
Hey, Ellen Page.
Hey, Netflix.
It's like pretty warm out today, right?
It's like nice and cozy?
Okay, moving on.
Today, we are filming the beginning of episode 10,
where we are figuring out what to do.
You get to see all the siblings interact with each other.
You know, we're all professionals
and we all love the project
and the people we're working with.
Get out of my breast!
You're always in the way!
Get out!
This is how I'm treated.
Having a hundred people out there trying to melt the snow
for a giant scene that takes place on a farm
is gonna be a little tricky.
Tom, any tips for Luther's physique?
It's all about the lats.
It's just very changeable at the moment.
So like every night when I finish work,
I think I'm doing certain scene tomorrow,
and then we find out on the way home
that it's actually changed to a completely different scene
because we can't do it because of snow.
I think it's great.
I think it's awesome,
you know, especially because
it's set in Dallas this year.
So all of a sudden at the end,
we get this bizarre snowstorm to, kind of,
add a shot in the arm to our climax.
We have a Robert in his habitat.
Oh, my tan looks quite good on that video.
Yeah.
Tinkering with the script of episode 10
ended up becoming a necessity,
but dealing with unexpected challenges
is what The Umbrella Academy is all about.
Essentially Steve just said
that if the snow didn't melt,
then snow would be written into the script.
You think whatever's going on inside
is causing the cold front?
And because we've established that the powers
that Harlan have, which are obviously the powers
that Vanya has, and Vanya had a lot of influence
over the weather in the first season,
and now, Harlan in this really, really wild state
is causing snow to fall.
So that's what we did.
You know, when life gives you lemons,
make a badass, super-powered, final fight
that features weird unexpected weather.
Magnificent.
We do a lot of running on The Umbrella Academy,
Run!
Go, go, go, go!
but running in the snow
can get a little bit tricky.
So this morning we had to do full sprints up a hill
in two feet of snow.
Thank God for snow boots because that was not an easy feat.
Get down!
I've got these costume boots on,
which have got absolutely very minimal grip.
So I'm running in the snow
and it's very hard to get traction.
So you'll probably notice in the shot that I'm going behind
because I've got absolutely zero grip.
This is how movies are made.
I think I'm gonna puke!
No time!
I'll cover for you.
We embrace the snow and the episode is gonna be
even better as a result.
That's how it's done.
Once we decided to embrace the snowy conditions,
we kind of thought, wow,
this could be an extraordinary gift.
Thanks for this extraordinary team behind me,
we've been able to not only adapt to the new conditions
that we've had.
Mother nature's gonna do what she's gonna do.
She doesn't care.
She doesn't care about The Umbrella Academy.
That's just a part of it and yeah,
always roll with it and you can figure it out.
It makes for a better episode, I think.
Thanks so much for taking this behind the scenes
journey with me, the rest of the cast
and the incredible crew of The Umbrella Academy.
We really hope that you enjoy watching the season
as much as we enjoyed making it.
Thank you, everyone.
That is a wrap at the ranch.
Nice work, everybody.