I'm Sam Corlett.
I'm Leo Suter.
And I am Frida Gustavsson.
This is “Shot by Shot.”
Kill them all!
Today we're gonna have a little look
at the final battle scene
in Vikings: Valhalla.
Don't watch this if you haven't already finished season 1.
Please, spoiler alert.
We shot this over the course of five days.
I think we all called it "battle week."
There's two sections of the army.
There's the Kattegat wall, which Freydis is defending,
and the Kattegat harbor, which Leif is defending
along with the armies.
Loose!
These trebuchets were actually made
by the props department.
They weren't actual cannons.
They were painted black watermelons.
Leif here now realizes that it was a trick.
Something's wrong.
They are frightened to attack.
No.
And there was actually a “skeleton army,” is what
they called it when there was hardly anyone there,
just the bare bones.
- Fall back to Kattegat wall! - To the wall!
Harald is currently on top of a mountain side
and he's pretty scared that his friends are about to perish.
That's me.
That's actually you galloping?
Yeah.
Over the wall!
This is all practical set that was actually built
for us to essentially use as a playground.
- Oh wait, there's actually– - Isn't there a story?
The stones.
With these stones,
they didn't tell the army of stunt men
that I was gonna be throwing rocks at them.
And I'm just coming, charging these rocks at them
and the fear in these men's faces.
- Oh! - They had no
idea the rocks were coming.
- No, Caroline! - Caroline...
Take her away!
No!
Push!
- Sick, this is cool. - Oh no! Here they come.
- Yeah, but look, like they– - Climbing up like a spider.
That was in the script, that it looked like,
“climbs the wall like a spider.”
Yeah.
These were all very choreographed scenes.
This fight is so good.
Aw, there goes Pääru.
And he talked about, he'd watched Joaquin Phoenix
in a boxing movie.
When he got knocked out, he tries one more hit.
The best death ever.
Alright, So now Leif and Liv are coming from the harbor
and meeting the army that has infiltrated the walls.
And we're rushing to get our leader back to her chambers.
Harald joins the battlefield on a horse.
So there's loads of bodies and corpses around.
And some of them are dummies
and others are real human beings.
Was there one moment where you...
You thought I tread on
- someone with the horse. - Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
You were like, "What have you done with–"
And I was like, "I don't think."
But yeah, I think there was a mix up.
And you thought I'd crushed someone.
The armor that I'm wearing here was made out
of cactus leather, fun fact.
I think that costume was the quickest there
- actually. - Yeah.
My armor took a long time
- to get. - Could you do it yourself?
- No, absolutely not. - Yeah.
I couldn't go to the bathroom alone.
It was very restricting, very heavy after–
Oh! There goes Lujza.
By Olaf, no less.
No!
It's so sad.
Like, I didn't see this and you weren't there.
And then you see your friends getting murdered.
- Right? - It's so horrible.
It's intense, man.
Lujza really commits to these moments.
And like usually you help your fellow actor
- during those moments, - Yeah.
but she was actually like dead weight.
I broke someone's nose during this scene,
which is a very mortifying experience.
Yeah, it was horrible.
So Harald's in trouble.
That's a serious injury.
This was a– I love this move.
This is a, they called it the “Superman.”
Sick.
Ow.
That hurt.
So I think at this point Harald thinks Freydis
thinks he's betrayed her and she's off, she's gone.
He's lost it all.
And he's gonna die.
And he's probably gonna die.
We must go.
And then she comes.
Knight in shining armor.
She still loves him.
Obviously he's in pain, so he'd be screaming going,
"Ah, ah, ah, ah!"
But if you make too much noise in front of a horse
it'll obviously gallop off into the distance.
You did it once.
It was the first time I did it and the horse went insane.
Galloped away.
We ended up going,
"Ah, ah, ah, ah."
I was like, "You will ADR this, right?"
- Because I'm going, - I was like, “That’s a choice.”
- So you gotta compromise. - Yeah,
sometimes you do with horses.
I hope that's inspired you to go
and re-watch season one. Go enjoy it.
It's out on Netflix.