Okay, Brellies and Sparrows.
You have each been given a call bell.
Now these— no they do not summon
the guardians from Hotel Oblivion.
That would be awful.
Instead, I will show you a exclusive
behind the scenes photo and if you know
the story behind it, ring your bell
and spill the beans.
- Ready, everybody? - Oh god, yes.
I will be the arbiter of who wins
and it probably won't be fair.
Okay, first picture.
(Ding)
Okay, I'm gonna say Genesis.
Dance sequence, episode one.
This is the sashay part at the end.
We were really trying to nail—
Justin clearly didn't nail it in this photo.
I was hiding in the back!
You're going the opposite direction!
Where am I?
- Do you not see your head? - So Jeremy was very specific.
You have to nail this part.
This clip we're mimicking the movie, so.
So, only Justin didn't.
Justin was interpreting that.
It was an interpretation.
Okay, great. Sorry, Justin.
Next photo!
Oh.
(Ding)
I think you're the only option.
You know what, this scene,
the treadmills that they chose
were not designed for 6'5 men.
It was literally, wasn't it?
- Yeah. - I mean, you struggled to run on it.
I struggled with it.
If you look at me and Justin Cornwell,
who played Marcus, running on that treadmill.
We look like we're old men on like kind of,
like we've just broken our legs,
and we're just getting back into rehab.
Like, you can't run properly.
We're just doing this.
It was like a petite section?
- Yeah, I mean where do you buy these? - They were literally this big.
The treadmills were this long.
They were the smallest treadmills I've ever—
- Tiny little things. - They were like ones that you collapse
and roll under your sofa.
Yeah.
Like, they were the smallest treadmills of all time.
Yeah, they scrimped on the treadmills.
The treadmill budget was not up to snuff.
Yeah, and actually when we had
to do these tighter shots, we had to pretend to run.
Didn't we?
- We couldn’t actually run. - Oh no!
Which was really hard.
Yeah. Next photo.
Oh boy.
Oh.
(Ding)
Okay, Genesis.
I mean, we gotta talk about the obvious.
Yeah.
The obvious, oh, this is when Sloane thinks
that Luther is betraying her.
That's why she's so serious.
But also, it's a serious conversation
in a very unserious outfit.
Because it's very hard to have serious conversations
when you can't move.
And that is what that situation—
We're both very upset about it, clearly.
Yeah, we do look very serious.
- Very not happy there. - We don't really do that very often,
- that serious thing, but— - Ever!
Like that may be the one serious picture of us in the shoot.
Yeah.
And so that outfit wasn't flexible at all?
It was just basically pleather?
No, it was leather.
Oh, it was so tight.
- No spandex. - You couldn't move.
Just leather.
Not comfy.
So it didn't bend in the knees
or in the joints and what not.
It looked pretty cool, though.
Okay, next photo.
Aw!
Cute!
I can't see it.
You need glasses.
Um...
(Ding)
That is me and David.
That is me.
We were shooting the scene at Hotel Obsidian.
I think it was probably our 20th take shooting the scene
because we shoot the scene so many times
from different angles with different cameras.
And you know, usually around the 20th take
we start getting a little delirious and crazy.
And so our fine crew members allowed me
to do the little...
- Clapper. - Clapper thing.
Which I've always wanted to do.
And I don't know what you're doing, a gang sign?
What is that?
I think that's the fourth take.
The fourth take.
Well, those are three fingers, so—
That's three, yeah.
Yeah, brilliant. Brilliant.
We didn't have a fourth, so.
He could be missing those fingers.
That's true.
Didn't you have your fingers cut off?
I did, but not on this one.
Was this the scene where Hargreeves wants
to take us to the room?
To the White Buffalo?
I think it's the scene where you go
with Lila to the sushi counter.
Oh, we're!
We're all dividing.
Oh, that's true.
We're all like going our separate ways.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're about to ring the bell and I'm like,
don't ring that.
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Don't ring the bell.
Exactly, exactly.
That looks like take seven.
Is it take seven?
I can't see what.
Hold on.
Oh.
That looks like the first take.
Okay.
- First take. - Oh, it is.
Why are you holding up three fingers?
Of that setup!
Of that setup, of that setup.
We'll never figure out the finger mystery.
Okay, one more time.
Photo.
Oo!
- Oh boy. - Yikes.
Anyone wanna chime in?
(ringing bell)
Tom?
That was Aidan on a Friday night around my house.
Yeah.
We go pretty hard on "The Umbrella Academy."
Uh, let me see if I remember.
Yeah, so, well I guess, is it too late to ding?
I'm gonna give this to you.
An honorary ding?
It's an honorary ding.
(ringing bell)
Yes, nailed it.
Thanks, Emmy.
Yeah, so this is.
A lot of thought went into this scene.
Basically for plot reasons and because it's
a really cool thing to happen in a story.
It's a jolt for the audience.
Five's arm needs to get cut off,
but he needs to survive it.
So, we had to figure out a way of like
him applying a tourniquet with one hand.
So as soon as it gets chopped off,
Five's going off and he's sort of tying it
and he's in more pain than obviously ever.
And yeah, that was, I blew my voice out
quite a couple of times shooting that
and also in ADR trying.
It was very shocking.
Your hand just flies off.
- It was a lot. - It was amazing.
Okay, next photo.
Oh my god.
(bell ringing)
Oh, ho!
We're all getting tortured by Hargreeves' mischief.
Yeah.
So, is this at the very end?
So most of that was CGI.
All of it.
Wow, all of it?
But only at the very ending?
The screams were real.
That was a very painful day.
We were all, we all had to stare up
into these bright lights and scream
for pretty much seven hours straight.
And like clench and like hold your breath.
But we started laughing.
We all started laughing through the pain.
I remember, ugh.
Yeah, they would call out varying degrees of pain.
- Exactly. - Oof.
Since we couldn't see each other
we had to keep on looking up.
We would know by pain level six
that we would be at a six, everybody.
Yeah, everyone thought.
You know, when you were in it,
it was kind of like, oh, this is painful.
But then when they would put the camera
on just one person, everyone would kind of relax.
You realize how ludicrous we looked.
Because you would look at someone and be like.
(gurgling)
Oh I had to watch all of you do that for 10 hours.
It was great.
And I'm just standing there, mouth agape.
I have to say, I felt very fortunate that I was dead.
- Yeah. - Oh yeah!
At that point. That I didn't have to do that.
I saw you guys doing it, and it was like, no, no.
Because like, everyone would start
to go like blue in the face.
And I was like, oh god, someone's gonna pass out.
I think that was the light, Emmy.