- Hi, I'm Jonathan Daviss.
- Hi, I'm Chase Stokes.
- I'm Madison Bailey.
- Hi guys, I'm Rudy Pankow.
- And we're gonna walk you through, shot by shot,
- John B.'s dive scene,
where he almost drowned, basically.
(eerie music playing)
(water splashing) - Oh, there I go.
See ya later.
- Funny thing about this shot.
This was the first time I ever scuba dove
in my life.
- Chase had to learn how to like,
dive on set
that day. - Yeah,
he learned that day.
- Yeah, you went through, like what?
15 minutes of training beforehand?
- Yeah, they were like,
"Okay, so this is a mask, - (laughs)
and, um, this is gonna go on your back,
and you just jump."
Right here. (water splashing)
- Definitely did that wrong, but that's --
(laughter)
- And I think in that shot,
you barely go like, five feet under the surface.
- Oh, yeah, that's true. - (laughter)
I literally bobbed under the surface,
like, maybe a foot.
- Diver down.
(rippling water)
- Something happens. - And there's his face...
right there, still.
(mouse click)
- So I'm on the other side of the boat,
literally, just hanging on.
Okay, so this is cool, actually,
because this is a completely different location.
We shot this in a,
like, it's a cop training facility for scuba divers.
- Right.
- So, we actually got that boat ourselves,
(mouse click)
and it's a Grady-White,
and their whole slogan is,
"You can't sink 'em." - Right.
And so, challenge accepted, obviously.
And it took 'em, almost over a week
to actually sink the boat itself.
- That boat was 16 feet down.
- All these shots
were no green screens,
like, we're actually there, - Yeah.
and, man, was that such a blast to like, do.
'Cause like, so many things are done
with a green screen nowadays. - Yeah.
And just bein' out there was so fun.
(police sirens)
- Shit, J.J.
- Guys, that's the police.
- Aw, you gotta be kidding me.
- Yep, that's the police.
- Just act frickin' normal.
(police sirens) - Here the cops pull up.
Woop, woop.
- Deputy Shoupe is, hands down,
my favorite character - Oh, absolutely.
- Cullen.
- And then Cullen!
(laughter)
- Yeah. - Hilarious.
- Evenin', officers.
- Evenin'.
- J.J., tie this off.
- Fun fact about this,
he could not --
- Park that boat!
(laughter) He pushed us so many times!
- Took this docking scene at least 15 times to...
(laughter)
dock up against the boat - To drive the boat
and dock it, we kept having to re-do that.
- It was funny, actually, right before that,
I was like, "You can do it, dude, you can do it!"
Like, just whispering to him,
'cause it was a drone shot from wide,
so I was just like, - Yeah.
"You got this!"
- J.J., tie this off.
- This was the third time I'd ever been scuba diving,
and I found out by the guy that owned this place
that this was the same dive
that they do for their master dive class.
- He's certified. - No, no,
I'm so not certified. - (laughter)
No, I don't have my certification.
- How you kids doin'?
You know the marsh is closed?
- Um, no,
wow. - I didn't know.
- Why is it closed?
- Conducting a search out here.
Boat went down.
- It's very interesting,
how they shot all these boat sequences.
There were about four or five boats out
on the water at at time, - Yeah.
each with like, a different camera crew inside.
And about seven people,
and there's an exact replica of the Pogue
that the camera crew would be in.
- Yeah, so we had the secondary Pogue
was completely rigged for camera equipment,
so what they would do is
they would usually come out,
like you saw earlier, they'd shoot a really wide shot,
and then, because it's such a hassle to move boats,
they would progressively push in and push in
until they got to a shot like this,
where you don't even realize it,
but there's essentially two or three boats
tied to that little fixture - Yeah.
right there.
- Those boats would be tied together, for sure.
- Seen anything?
- No,
no boats.
- So this is actually a pretty cool shot.
This again is at the secondary location, Algins Lake.
And we had a really, really sick underwater DP.
- The underwater DP we brought on
and, um, he was a personal friend of mine
who is fantastic.
And he does all the surfing shots
in the show, too. - Yup.
- So, shoutout,
A-1 work there, Mossey.
- Where's your friend, ya always hang with?
He here?
- He's working.
(scuba noises)
(scuba bubble noises)
- Here comes, uh,
here comes one of my favorite moments right here.
So, when Cullen gets on the boat,
in one of the takes, he actually slips
and falls on to the boat!
He was a trooper, he kept acting,
but everybody else bust out laughing.
- And I'm still, by the way --
- On the other side of that boat.
When we shoot the scenes,
we usually shoot 'em,
pretty much all the way through.
We don't like, do a lot of cutting,
so, if he goes in to that water,
and we're shooting, and the scene continues,
he's just gonna sit there
until it's done.
Real trooper there, buddy. - Thanks, man.
(scuba bubble noises)
(soft music playing)
(mouse click) - So that's CGI.
The one that tells you about your air,
that was actually like,
a ticking clock,
and it was actually not working that day,
so they CGI'd that on there.
- He's running out of air now.
- I'm gonna die!
(mouse click)
- This lighting
is something else we should mention,
that it's all naturally lit. - Yeah.
Yeah, we had no additional lighting.
Also, for a lot of the, the water stuff,
Jonas, Josh and Shannon were like,
very big on having that sort of,
end of summer vibe
with the lighting,
so, you know, we'd shoot, shoot, shoot n' shoot,
and then, next thing you know,
the light gets to where it's at,
to where it almost feels - Yeah.
like the sun's about to set,
and then --
- Yeah, like that there.
- You have maybe 20 minutes.
- Yeah, 15 at most to get a good take in.
The budget, it's all moving fast, but.
- It's sort of like,
14 rehearsal takes and then,
next thing you know it's like,
all right, we gotta go. - Yeah, this is the one.
You do it, and it looks beautiful.
Shout out to Brad Smith.
- I love this.
This day was so beautiful.
We actually shot this scene
within like, the first
week
of filming. - Yeah.
And I remember, sitting there after we wrapped,
and the sunset was insane.
- Yeah, yeah, of course.
It's in the hole.
- Show him.
- Yeah, here we go.
- All right.
(soft intense music)
- I like that they added this shadow.
You're running out of time,
John B. - Tick tock, baby!
(scuba bubble noises)
(soft intense music)
- Oh, be careful right there, you don't want to slip.
- He's like,
"I'm gonna put these glasses on--
- See if I can see somethin'.
Uh oh, little glare glare there.
Can't see nobody.
- Murky water.
So, if this was real life,
you'd probably see a shark,
'cause we were told there was no sharks in this water,
like, the people were like,
"Oh, it's really safe."
Came to find out,
like, last week, it was like, no.
There's a lot of sharks in that water.
(laughter)
(intense music building)
(scuba bubble noises)
(soft tone pulsing)
- So Cullen doesn't even see the bubbles
that Chase is blowing.
- That shot, right there,
just my face.
So, we picked that up in re-shoots.
- And that was in the tank.
- That was a cool shot, - Yeah.
because, first of all,
the water temperature was like, 65 degrees,
so I had a nude-colored water,
like, wet suit on.
And two days before that,
I had almost gotten hypothermia
from a shot in the water,
so I was, literally felt like I was dying
in this tank.
And that was the last shot we shot.
Final shot? - Yeah, actually.
That was it, that was the final shot.
And Chase, in that freezing cold tank,
in Charleston.
- I was really proud. - He actually got
a double ear infection.
- Yeah, oh yes!
(laughter)
- That's right.
(scuba bubble noises)
(intense music)
- All right.
- Beautiful day, ain't it?
- Sure is, very beautiful.
- You let us know
if you see anything on your way out.
- Will do, will do.
- We'll be gone soon, sir.
- Yes, you will.
(boat speeding away)
- And also, in this scene,
it's really funny because,
so when we start looking off the boat,
he was actually right under the boat,
looking up at us.
And we had to pretend - (laughter)
that we didn't see him,
so we're just sitting there,
and we're like, we're like, 'sup Chase?
And we're like, where are you?
- He's definitely out of air.
- There he is!
- Oh, God! - Jesus Christ!
(laughter) - Don't scare us like that!
- How'd it go down there?
- Thank you so much for going through
the diving scene with us,
shot by shot.
- Watch Outer Banks.
On Netflix. (claps)