Five things we learned from the cast’s Tribeca Film Festival panel
Delos data collection sounds familiar… At the Tribeca panel, Nolan drew an explicit connection between Delos and real-life tech corporations.
“Google is one great example; Facebook is another.
Their business is to sell you shit and read your mind.
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It turns out you are the product.
Not coincidentally, these two companies (Google and Facebook) are also the leading investors in AI.
So that felt somewhat relevant to our show.
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It’s a cynical business model, and it lends itself to delicious reinterpretation on our show.”
We talked to people who would be in the scenes with them about being careful.
It’s a vulnerable position.
What is essential to the story is that feeling of both perfection and tragedy.
It’s an essential part of the story, and it’s guided by what the characters are doing.
“I remember reading the script for episode 1 and being like, ‘I’m wearing clothes!
I’m not only wearing clothes, I get other clothes to wear.
I’ve got another costume!’
He wouldn’t even look at me, he was just trying to guide the robe to me.
It took me a moment to recover myself and carry on.
I had delayed horror.”
The samurai-inflectedShogun Worldwas first glimpsed in the season 1 finale and has a much bigger role in season 2.
At the panel, Nolan explained the influences that went into creating Shogun World.
We imagined that Anthony Hopkins' character’s relationship to narrative was similar to our own.
When I was a kid growing up, I watched Sergio Leone movies on London weekend television.
When I watched Akira Kurosawa movies, I started to notice they were kind of similar.
Leone’s movies owed a lot to Kurosawa, andStar Warsowed a lot to Kurosawa.
That was a delicious idea to play with.
For Shogun World, we brought out an entire Japanese cast and Japanese stunt choreographers."
Wait, who is that?'
And they were like, ‘You know, Wyatt’s a girl’s name too.’
So who is she?
Jonah said there’s never been a character like her before.
So we built her from the ground up.
We found this new version of her just by doing.
But it was definitely a challenge."
“But she’s changed.
It’s hot for a second, but then you have to stay alive.”
Or feeling that you’ve been forced to change?"
“How can this love survive evolution and this new climate of war?
How much of it is programming and how much of it is real?
We’ll see more of that in season 2.”
