it's been cool to push my body to the
physical limit
your adrenaline is going so intensely
and your body is reacting
it's been a whirlwind i think because it
all kind of just like happened
so quickly i felt like questioning
whether i was like ready or not there's
like a lot of imposter syndrome yeah do
i deserve to be here
yeah was that like good enough that was
like the scary part you know
am i gonna be okay after this
this is our 22nd week of filming it's
crazy to think that
we also did the pilot in september 2018
18.
just feels like this job's been so like
like a part of our lives for so long
this is the lot the trailers there's
costumes over there
yeah and then another makeup wing over
there
every morning we come to the trailer at
like 4 30 a.m
and we spend like 45 minutes to like an
hour in here
it's funny because you'd think that it's
like oh these girls are just like burnt
and dirty
but it takes a long time they even put
like eyelash glue on our foreheads
to make it look like we're peeling like
i think i still have like
blood on my legs yeah oh yeah there it
is you can see it
so you can get in there a shower is just
not enough
we all kind of get our makeup done at
the same time we have like five minutes
to like be in the trailer and like get
dressed and it's fun because we're all
on the track and like we're all like
talking and laughing and it's actually
really nice time to like
come alive before we have to go on set
these are some of the parts that have
been used for the different bits and
pieces of the plane
of our big pretty yeah girl don't
it's gonna fall apart it looks pretty
bad
i am extremely brand new to this
industry when i first got this i was
like i feel so
like out of my league the very busy vibe
of set
really put me under a lot of pressure
definitely spending a lot of time with
rain and we've had a lot of
conversations
having someone that's been in this
industry it's like i couldn't really ask
for anyone better that noses
our trailers we call them campers
because they're basically campus
with the new zealand accent the moment i
felt like we all
bonded as a cast was the mutt scene
because of however they made this fake
mud
i was actually really stuck in the mud
everybody really had to use
all of their strength to get me out of
the pit everybody
really because of how hard it was was
really able to live in that moment
we were able to show each other all of
our acting chops and i was able to
admire everybody which was really really
cool
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there's a bed up there she's always in
it this spot's like my spot
yeah we can see because you're using it
right now
there's like a lot of imposter syndrome
like should i actually be doing this
yeah do i deserve to be here
yeah was that like good enough i had the
similar impulsive syndrome thing like
being the only
new zealand cast member it wasn't
anything to the production just like in
myself i felt like disposable in a way
which was stressful but i also think
for five months living in a different
city away from home it's going to be
difficult but
i think i forgot that it's also really
really fun
yeah it's so much fun how do i even get
a guy to like me
oh that's easy you just stop paying
attention to them and then they just
like
appear out of nowhere
so this guy washed up is he good for
anything i took this role because like
it was a challenge rachel
it's this character that is constantly
in this aggressive state
tunnel vision always moving forward and
determined and i have that in me when i
first came here it was
very difficult for me to adjust in
multiple ways
and you kind of feel like you're
fighting and you're finally really hard
to be heard
when this character has this fight scene
where she's fighting her environment
herself everybody that's around her i
kind of was just
trying to tune in and channel that that
actually played into my scene
on the cliff where she's like yelling at
the girls like why aren't you fighting
to get back home
don't look at me like you think i've
lost my mind like i'm some angry girl
losing her
for no reason real life is out there and
i have no clue why i'm the only
one fighting to get it back
constantly be in that state was a
challenge for me but i was just
preparing myself to
get into that mode and then to find out
the complexities of this powerful young
black woman that's really really dope
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this is the props this is everything
that we use
touch and play with there you go
i need these in my mouth right now oh
lord it's like a miracle those are so
much better than hot cheetos
oh my god they like gave us this spit
bucket because they were like if you
don't want to eat the takis you can just
spit them out
dude i had to like shovel them into my
mouth for the scene in 104
and i was like
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right let's go hey we're going to take
you to
dawn of eve headquarters set this is
where gretchen
uh played by the lovely rachel griffiths
comes to
snow we were singing razer glass
by pink that was a rough night
when we were out there that was our
first time on a night shoot
there were bats flying around there and
we were like get the scene done guys
it's a huge light so you can see
every animal yeah rachel i'm ready
no stop okay it's good i swear nor
a nice free dive in open water
okay
it's definitely the most challenging
project i've done
in a lot of ways like physically we've
pushed ourselves
so hard in hindsight enjoyable times are
like when we
in the ocean it was this thing from the
pilot we were rescuing jeanette and leah
from the water
and just like sprinting in and out of
like waist deep crazy
ocean for like five hours yeah it was so
draining but like it's
exhilarating it's exhilarating whenever
we're on the island there's definitely
another character
of the the weather and just the
environment and these beaches
particularly water scenes i find that i
just like get out of my head because
like
there's like actually an obstacle that
you're working against
yeah you just kind of have to give over
to whatever that is no acting necessary
what we're about to show you is the dorm
room where we get interrogated later by
the agents where we are trapped each
character
it's mainly the same but like things get
moved around a little bit and like
different colors like i don't know
i don't have orange and sometimes this
isn't there i'm pretty sure this
they take the walls out depending on
what angle they want to shoot on they
can move everything around
a place to sleep and think about the
torture we've been through
it's emotionally like mentally stressful
but like i really feel like that's going
to
bring this element to life that
adolescence is a struggle
these characters go through some really
hard situations and just trying to tap
into
that was incredibly challenging the
stuff that
dot had to do with her father those were
the most difficult ones trying to figure
out that parental relationship and just
hard stuff there was really no kind of
real prep that i had to do right before
the scene
because i had such a good connection
with greg who played my dad
he'd start and i would just bawl
instantly
there was a scene where i was talking to
my dad having to like
be afraid of a father figure you get
yourself
all riled up and then you do the take
and then like okay great we're gonna do
that again you're like okay
so you have to stay in the zone you
can't let it go so you have to like hold
on to it i think that i can just go home
like take my costume off and just resume
life as always but then it's hard to
like sometimes drop it and let it go
sometimes you just have to like
push through and like find a way to
whether that's physically like whether
it's a big physical gesture of like
shaking the feeling out of your body or
just like putting a hot towel in your
face
or something yeah showers i find like
putting my jewelry back on like the
jewelry that i wear
all the time like i never take these
rings off so when i come home like the
ritual of putting the rings on like
connecting back with like
my life and who i am the hardest thing i
had to film was with my mother
when i find her just like up and
had to clean her up i
felt myself like really feeling it as if
it was happening to me
and i could feel myself like getting
emotional and that was like
the scary part i cried for a good ten
minutes i did mine
went inside straight to my trailer and i
just like and i never liked this too and
i felt so bad i like how
i shut the door and i was just like i
feel like the hardest scenes though are
the most rewarding
because they're so challenging and you
just accepted that challenge and when
you kill it it's like
walk away from it like i looked at
myself i was like i have that in me
i have that determined aggressive part
of me where he's like no
you know that conversation with yourself
to really yeah you can do it okay i know
that i do this that this is a part of me
the biggest thing that i learned on this
job
is that like the power's in me it's all
within it's all within me
it's like the most rewarding feeling
like this is like the one time i can be
like
i did it like i'm proud of myself what
drew me to this was like
how powerful these women are like
they're on this island and they're still
joking and adapting and finding their
power in this really difficult situation
and the strength shines through each of
these women
things that go on in the female
experience as we're growing up
really are traumatizing honestly i see a
lot of elements in everybody's character
of myself
i would really love for the audience to
really understand that
you're not alone in some certain
situation that's
kind of what i want for people that
watch is like
especially young women you are so
powerful and like everything that
you think and have to say is so
important you should never feel like
you can't because of societal pressures
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and then at the end of the day you come
out here and you know you're all sandy
and like dirty from the day and then you
just get to like
ah like come back to yourself moments
right before
we start rolling when they're still
setting up cameras and stuff and one
person will start singing
someone else will join in we have a lot
of singing parties
the tension's so high the material is so
sensitive and so it's like it's just so
nice to have that comedic like oh wait
we don't have to take this so seriously
we're okay like it's all good this is ed
wild director of the wilds
toilet mover prop man he does it all
usually when we're on set you know it's
like very go go go
you forget how close you've become
because you've spent so much time
together and then you really realize it
there wow man i love you guys
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we put a lot of time effort and love
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and we hope you guys see it and then it
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