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It's one of my favorite parts of
the process is that early brainstorming.

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Okay. Let's figure this out.

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Where do you guys wanna sit? I think
this feels good here. This feels good.

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It starts out so amorphous.

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It's just like
this misshapen blob of clay.

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And then you just keep working it.

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One day at a time, one minute at a time.

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You get tired and you go off on tangents.

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There's always a sense of panic
that it's not going to come together.

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Then you go, "Wait,
let's go back to the ball of clay."

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"Let's keep working it and kneading it."

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And then eventually
it just starts to take shape.

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And when it starts to take shape,
it just gets really exciting.

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Ready, and action.

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Action.

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What was the test on again? Human anatomy?

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It's been a journey.

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Yeah, 10 years.

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That's a quarter of our lives,
a bigger chunk of our actors' lives.

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Swallowed in darkness.

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It is almost here.

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What is it?

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The Demogorgon.

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Will!

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- Will!
- Will!

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Season 1 feels so tiny
in comparison to where we are now.

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We like the idea
of slowly scaling up the show,

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just like you would a movie sequel.

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Each episode is its own movie
in terms of the amount of time,

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the amount of pages
we're shooting every day,

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the complexities of the visual effects,
the stunts, the various locations.

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I don't think we imagined
reaching this sort of scale.

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It's terrifying because

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you see these shows
that people love and adore,

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and the ending falters.

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And they just discard
the rest of the show.

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You can't leave anything dangling.
You have to wrap everything up.

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But at the end of the day,
it hasn't changed from season 1

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in the sense that
it all comes down to these characters,

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and that's what people care about.

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That's sick.

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Yeah. Let's do it again.

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{\an8}We went into production without
having a finished script for the finale.

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{\an8}That was scary
because we wanted to get it right.

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It was the most important script
of the season.

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{\an8}The whole episode has to be building
towards "Eleven is going to kill herself."

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{\an8}Like, if we're trying to sell it
as she's going to kill herself,

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{\an8}and then she kills herself...

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{\an8}Yeah.

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{\an8}I think that it's like,
is she still deciding?

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{\an8}Has she already decided?

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{\an8}You have to keep toying with the audience

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{\an8}because I think what works
in seven is this, like, "Oh my God."

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Like, "Is she really
going to go through with this?"

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And it's what
everyone's gonna keep expecting.

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We think she's made the choice to live.

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- I don't know--
- Just kidding. She hasn't.

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- Just kidding. She has.
- That's where I start...

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I don't know
if we have to play it like that.

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- That is...
- I don't know if we have to.

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- How would we play it?
- We keep it ambiguous.

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We keep it ambiguous till the moment--

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No. If she comes back and has...
In a moment with Hopper...

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If she comes back and has this moment
with Hopper and gets in the van,

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I feel she has clearly made
a choice to live.

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No. Not necessarily.

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{\an8}If you show me those images,
she's made a choice to live.

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- I'm so--
- Don't do the 100% thing.

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- You have an image--
- I'm 100%.

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What's the other option?

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God, I don't know how to play this.

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The longer it goes,
the more stories you have to tie up,

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the more character arcs
you have to tie up,

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the more expectations
there are with the audience.

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And how do you meet those expectations

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but surprise the audience still?

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So close.

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Ross and I had no interest
in writing at all.

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We wanted to direct.

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We realized that the best way in
was probably writing.

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We were focused on what
we thought the industry wanted.

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Writing bad script after bad script
and just going, "Why is this not working?"

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Eventually we realized
we just needed to listen to our gut,

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and write for ourselves.

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{\an8}I remember when we came up
with <i>Stranger Things</i> for the first time.

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We just wrote
the basement scene with the kids,

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and it came so easily.

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I was like, okay,
now we're onto something.

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Oh, we're going way back.

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Okay, let's go way back.

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{\an8}What's crazy is we're in the room
with the pieces of furniture

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{\an8}on which the Duffers and I first sat
when we first met almost a decade ago.

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The rules of movies and TV back then said

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you can't make a show about kids
that isn't for kids.

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- Are you out of your mind?
- Just listen to me.

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You are out of your mind.

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You can't combine horror genre
and coming-of-age.

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It was that transgression
that made it feel so fresh.

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It was immediately clear
that he understood the script,

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and what Shawn did,
which was so incredible,

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because he was
a respected director and producer...

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What he did is he goes,
"I trust you, and I trust your vision."

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The only chance
of making something hard happen

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is by being convinced it will happen.

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And so it starts with one person,
or a couple of twins,

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or then it's ten people,
then it's a whole writers' room,

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and then suddenly it becomes 1,000 people,
who are like, "Oh, you know what?"

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"Yeah, we're going to make
this impossible thing happen."

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{\an8}Season 1, we had no idea
if anyone was even going to like the show.

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We had seen that, okay,
a lot of people have already finished it.

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They stayed up all night and were done,
and then it just snowballed.

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Oh my God!

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The global phenomenon is,

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well, it's surreal.

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It's honestly hard to comprehend.

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Stranger Things <i>topped
the TV streaming charts.</i>

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<i>The gang from Hawkins nabbed
a whopping 52 billion minutes streamed.</i>

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<i>Horror legend Stephen King
is hooked on the show.</i>

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He tweeted about our show
and we've exchanged emails with him,

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and that still blows my mind because he,

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growing up, he was such an inspiration.
He's like a god to us.

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I think everything gets bigger,

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and every year,
there's so much more expectation.

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{\an8}It's a beloved show,

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{\an8}and Matt and Ross
have to bring it to an end.

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You know, the stakes are high.

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Yeah, this is a ton of people.

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Um...

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Probably should've killed some of you off.

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Um...

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The, um... Millie was right.

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So we're going to start,
obviously, with one.

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We can only do three in a day.

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They're long. Let's do it. Let's just go.

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Ah.

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You did not think I could
make the time, did you?

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I think you can, but today, no,
I don't think that you made the time.

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Are you saying that I lie?

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No, I'm saying that you're mistaken.

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I'm not mistaken.

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Holly?

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Holly? Holly!

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I've been calling you.

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Sorry.

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- Can you round up the troops?
- Breakfast!

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We are here to execute
Matt and Ross's vision.

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No matter what it is,

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how big and crazy it is
when you read it on the page.

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It all starts with the script.

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{\an8}My goal is always to kind of help distill
whatever vision is on the page.

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{\an8}As much as possible,

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{\an8}I really try and dive deep into
photo archives of the time period.

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We knew we wanted some sort of spooky
basement and a little <i>Poltergeist-y</i> vibes.

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When I was first conceiving
of what Hopper's world might look like...

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{\an8}He's in a pretty dark
and slightly addicted place

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{\an8}when we meet him in the show.

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{\an8}Looking back through this, I feel we were
really able to accomplish in so many ways

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a lot of what we were setting out to do.

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I need cushions

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to make a bed for her
that's like a makeshift bed.

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{\an8}When you get a script
and you see a character on paper,

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{\an8}you have to kind of build out a world.

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So you start with
the little pieces of information,

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then we start filling them
with color palettes and textures.

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{\an8}When I get a script, I like to read
it as a fan because I do enjoy the show.

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You can't help
but start to visualize stuff already.

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Each decade is defined by its silhouette.

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A color can read through the screen

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passion or sadness.

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This group of actors is very involved.

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{\an8}That's...

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{\an8}- terrifying.
- I know!

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{\an8}I love it.

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{\an8}With these scripts,
the words kind of jump off the page.

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{\an8}You really get a colorful image
in your mind's eye

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{\an8}of what this could look like.

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{\an8}This season,
there's just so much to shoot.

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Action.

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We have 250 shooting days,
but it's not enough.

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{\an8}When I get a script from the brothers,

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{\an8}I first read it for, like, story.

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{\an8}Then I go through
and I tear everything apart by elements,

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meaning props, set dressing, time of day,
stunt performers, cast members.

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I'm constantly tracking every crew member

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and every cast member
like a border collie.

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It's just the way that my brain works.

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What's the difference between
season 1 and season 5?

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Something like 180 days.

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Welcome back.

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Hey, guys. When was the last time
we got to sit in a room together?

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When we write,

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we try to keep production in mind.

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But you do your best
to put some of that aside

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and not worry about the pain of
what it's going to take to pull it off.

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Because then you wouldn't write anything.

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I don't think we ever imagined
it becoming this big in season 5.

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We have 12 stages filled,
filled with sets.

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And countless location locations.

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It's massive.

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Massive.

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Most films are half the size
of a single <i>Stranger Things</i> episode.

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But if you're making a movie,
you have a lot more time to prep.

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We are laying down the tracks
as the train is going.

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We are making something incredibly special

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in a particular time in our industry.

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{\an8}It's an opportunity
that may not come around again.

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Movies was just
such a huge part of our childhood.

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We were really young when we said
this is what we want to do with our lives.

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The visual nature of it had a big part.

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We fell in love with Tim Burton
really early on.

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His art direction is so distinct,
it felt like magic to us.

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Movies like <i>Batman, Beetlejuice,</i>
and <i>Edward Scissorhands.</i>

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We love these stories
of the ordinary and the extraordinary.

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Because I think we had a lovely childhood,
but it was a fairly safe one.

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It was a bit of a bubble
in suburban North Carolina.

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We had grown up on Spielberg.

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His movies allowed us to travel
and go on these journeys and adventures.

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- Real places, fictional places.
- Anything.

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When I think of movies,
I think about my dad.

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Because we would go to the movies
every weekend with him.

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I think we were nine years old
when our parents, for Christmas,

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got us a Hi8 video camera.

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I don't think they realized
that this was going to be

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the best Christmas present
they've ever given us.

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It was the summer of fourth grade

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that we decided that we were
going to make a live-action feature film

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with our best friend, Tristan,
who lived next door to us.

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We sketched out a rough plot,
and then we just started filming.

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We couldn't edit, so you're editing
in camera, stopping and starting.

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Onward to battle!

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We learned how to really move the camera.

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And so we started
to develop a little bit as filmmakers.

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It was Sam Raimi, John Woo,
and then Shyamalan.

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We spent a long time
trying to figure out their style,

237
00:15:07,239 --> 00:15:11,535
and in that way,
learning filmmaking through their eyes.

238
00:15:13,454 --> 00:15:14,997
Let's go <i>Evil Dead</i>.

239
00:15:16,290 --> 00:15:17,499
- And then boom!
- Holly!

240
00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:30,554
Get on in there. Get in!

241
00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:34,683
If you don't need to be
inside the room, don't go.

242
00:15:35,643 --> 00:15:37,937
"Chapter One: The Crawl."

243
00:15:38,896 --> 00:15:43,233
We cut to an ammo bag slamming
on the base of an assault rifle.

244
00:15:43,734 --> 00:15:46,278
Hopper's arming up
in the basement of the Squawk,

245
00:15:46,362 --> 00:15:49,031
{\an8}where the rest of the party
prepare for the crawl.

246
00:15:49,615 --> 00:15:50,574
{\an8}Good to see you.

247
00:15:51,075 --> 00:15:53,035
- This is a big scene for everybody.
- Yeah.

248
00:15:53,118 --> 00:15:56,121
- It's a home run, this scene.
- First scene of the season.

249
00:15:56,205 --> 00:15:58,207
- Is this the map of Hawkins?
- Yes.

250
00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:01,710
- That's awesome. This set's great.
- Yeah.

251
00:16:01,794 --> 00:16:04,797
Maybe, Noah,
you're like loading those batteries in.

252
00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,007
It's... You guys have done this a lot.

253
00:16:07,091 --> 00:16:10,803
You've been doing it for a year.
It's more like you're dialed in.

254
00:16:10,886 --> 00:16:12,221
It's not like you're relaxed.

255
00:16:12,304 --> 00:16:15,224
Charlie, as long as you throw
a look my way, it makes sense.

256
00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:17,601
Tag is active! One of those?

257
00:16:17,685 --> 00:16:19,853
- Yeah.
- That's great. Do it like that.

258
00:16:25,859 --> 00:16:29,405
That Steadicam shot
takes us into this thing. Yeah.

259
00:16:30,447 --> 00:16:33,033
All right. I know it's not
the most exciting first scene.

260
00:16:33,117 --> 00:16:36,036
- No, this is a good way to ease...
- Warm up.

261
00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,038
- You don't want a monologue right now.
- No.

262
00:16:38,122 --> 00:16:39,873
Let's head to our spots.

263
00:16:41,166 --> 00:16:43,210
Ring the bell.

264
00:16:44,962 --> 00:16:47,589
Picture's up. Take one, scene on my mark.

265
00:16:48,590 --> 00:16:50,134
We haven't even tried this.

266
00:16:51,176 --> 00:16:52,469
This is gonna be a shit-show.

267
00:16:52,553 --> 00:16:53,512
Action!

268
00:17:03,355 --> 00:17:04,398
Thank you.

269
00:17:06,275 --> 00:17:08,444
- Good luck.
- Tag is active.

270
00:17:10,070 --> 00:17:11,071
Tag is active.

271
00:17:11,155 --> 00:17:13,824
Harrington, tag's active.
You getting a signal?

272
00:17:14,783 --> 00:17:15,659
Let's cut.

273
00:17:15,743 --> 00:17:16,994
What is Maya doing there?

274
00:17:17,077 --> 00:17:17,995
Cutting.

275
00:17:18,495 --> 00:17:20,164
{\an8}- Did it feel what?
- Delayed on Maya?

276
00:17:20,247 --> 00:17:23,542
{\an8}- I think she should be distracted.
- Doing some stuff.

277
00:17:23,625 --> 00:17:25,836
{\an8}So that she has to go "shit"
and then press the button.

278
00:17:25,919 --> 00:17:28,255
{\an8}- So there's a reason for it.
- Wanna give a note?

279
00:17:28,338 --> 00:17:30,132
- I'll just shout.
- Matt's gonna shout a note.

280
00:17:30,215 --> 00:17:32,217
Maya, because there's
a little bit of delay,

281
00:17:32,301 --> 00:17:34,845
maybe you're adjusting a knob
when we find you and then--

282
00:17:34,928 --> 00:17:36,472
- I think that's a good idea.
- Yeah.

283
00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:39,975
Okay. Here we go. Ready there, Nikolai?

284
00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:43,312
Okay. Camera's set and action!

285
00:17:47,983 --> 00:17:49,068
Tag is active.

286
00:17:51,737 --> 00:17:54,198
Harrington, you getting any signal?
Tag is active.

287
00:17:54,281 --> 00:17:55,783
- That was it.
- Let's cut.

288
00:17:55,866 --> 00:17:57,785
- Cutting.
- Cutting. Cut, cut.

289
00:17:57,868 --> 00:18:00,871
- That was good. That feels right.
- Awesome. You got it.

290
00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:13,092
I think there's like
a weird electricity between all of us.

291
00:18:13,175 --> 00:18:15,552
We tend to bounce off each other
really, really well.

292
00:18:15,636 --> 00:18:17,471
Okay. Give me the umbrellas.

293
00:18:17,554 --> 00:18:19,473
- No! Double.
- I love you.

294
00:18:20,057 --> 00:18:23,060
The first season,
it just didn't feel like acting.

295
00:18:23,143 --> 00:18:26,396
{\an8}It was just all these real kids
and real interactions.

296
00:18:26,980 --> 00:18:32,486
{\an8}We were insane children. Definitely
just off the wall, just saying anything.

297
00:18:32,569 --> 00:18:34,279
I mean, ten years?

298
00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:38,992
{\an8}That kind of chemistry,
you can't really fake that.

299
00:18:39,576 --> 00:18:42,037
Ready, and action!

300
00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:44,748
- I like both of these shots.
- It says <i>Stranger Things.</i>

301
00:18:46,792 --> 00:18:47,918
- Look at that.
- Cool.

302
00:18:48,502 --> 00:18:50,295
I think it's your chosen family, right?

303
00:18:51,004 --> 00:18:56,552
There's just this profound love
and admiration and friendship.

304
00:18:56,635 --> 00:19:01,682
{\an8}It does feel like a family.
That's a little cliché, but it does.

305
00:19:01,765 --> 00:19:04,059
Lucas, you and I will take
our usual observation posts.

306
00:19:05,394 --> 00:19:08,814
{\an8}Mike and the group, they have to put
their toys away at some point

307
00:19:08,897 --> 00:19:10,607
{\an8}and kind of grow up a little bit.

308
00:19:10,691 --> 00:19:12,901
One, two, three! Kill Vecna!

309
00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:14,611
Kill Vecna!

310
00:19:14,695 --> 00:19:17,948
It's been easier to kind of hold
onto our childhood a little bit longer,

311
00:19:18,031 --> 00:19:20,909
{\an8}and that's going to be
a bit of a wake-up call.

312
00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:23,787
You remember season 1?

313
00:19:23,871 --> 00:19:24,913
Vividly.

314
00:19:24,997 --> 00:19:27,374
- You don't remember it much?
- Well, I wasn't there.

315
00:19:27,457 --> 00:19:29,168
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, you were.

316
00:19:29,251 --> 00:19:31,670
- For like one day.
- Season 1, I just felt like...

317
00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:34,882
I remember any time you were in,
we were like, "Noah's here!"

318
00:19:34,965 --> 00:19:37,968
- Whoa! The famous guy!
- Like, the elusive Schnapp.

319
00:19:38,802 --> 00:19:41,471
I want to establish that VFX.
They want this whole...

320
00:19:43,390 --> 00:19:47,144
{\an8}For us, Will really is
the heart and soul of season 5.

321
00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:50,689
{\an8}After season 2,

322
00:19:50,772 --> 00:19:54,234
{\an8}we had put the brakes
on his storyline a little bit.

323
00:19:54,318 --> 00:19:58,697
{\an8}He had not come of age in the same way
some of the other characters had.

324
00:20:02,075 --> 00:20:03,827
Wow, such a good match.

325
00:20:04,328 --> 00:20:05,746
So gooey.

326
00:20:05,829 --> 00:20:07,080
So gooey.

327
00:20:08,123 --> 00:20:12,294
I mean, this, we're just exactly trying
to match what you did previous seasons.

328
00:20:12,794 --> 00:20:14,338
Once we get to the tree...

329
00:20:15,214 --> 00:20:16,965
- it's what you would have done...
- Yeah.

330
00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:19,676
- ...we think, you know, back in 2015.
- Damn.

331
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,180
You wanna be kinda like shivering,

332
00:20:23,263 --> 00:20:26,642
and your jaw, tense your arms.

333
00:20:28,769 --> 00:20:32,064
The Duffers really listen
and really collaborate with us,

334
00:20:32,147 --> 00:20:34,399
from when I was, like, ten years old.

335
00:20:34,483 --> 00:20:37,486
{\an8}Like, it just shocks you, you know?

336
00:20:38,904 --> 00:20:43,283
{\an8}It's been really cool to kind of
step into these, like, director shoes.

337
00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:46,328
{\an8}What does Noah think?
We're going to defer to you.

338
00:20:46,411 --> 00:20:49,998
And I'm like, "Oh, okay,
I guess you guys trust me,"

339
00:20:50,082 --> 00:20:51,917
which is a really nice feeling.

340
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,710
Get up, like, grab your...

341
00:20:54,336 --> 00:20:56,046
Like that, yeah. Yeah.

342
00:20:56,129 --> 00:20:57,798
- All right.
- You got that?

343
00:20:57,881 --> 00:20:59,258
Oh, yes. Thanks.

344
00:21:00,384 --> 00:21:01,468
All right.

345
00:21:01,969 --> 00:21:03,387
Very good. Camera's set.

346
00:21:09,685 --> 00:21:10,978
That was really well done.

347
00:21:11,061 --> 00:21:12,980
That was, like, perfect.

348
00:21:13,063 --> 00:21:14,731
That's so cool!

349
00:21:17,734 --> 00:21:20,570
{\an8}We spent a long time casting the kids.

350
00:21:20,654 --> 00:21:21,822
{\an8}Action.

351
00:21:21,905 --> 00:21:23,991
It was very exciting to audition.

352
00:21:24,074 --> 00:21:25,617
You have to try this on.

353
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:28,161
What do you think?

354
00:21:29,037 --> 00:21:30,038
Pretty.

355
00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:34,918
Oh! So you're telling me
she can make things fly,

356
00:21:35,002 --> 00:21:37,713
slam doors,
and talk to Will in other dimensions,

357
00:21:37,796 --> 00:21:39,548
and can't tell us where the gate is?

358
00:21:39,631 --> 00:21:40,716
Now that's bullshit!

359
00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:43,510
- She's not a weirdo.
- She's a weirdo and a freak.

360
00:21:43,593 --> 00:21:45,470
- Screw you!
- Stop it!

361
00:21:46,221 --> 00:21:47,973
I'm sick of this. I'm sick of it!

362
00:21:48,056 --> 00:21:49,474
Oh, shut up, Dustin.

363
00:21:49,558 --> 00:21:50,892
You shut up!

364
00:21:50,976 --> 00:21:53,395
All this fighting, it's gotta stop!

365
00:21:53,478 --> 00:21:56,106
You go through hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of kids.

366
00:21:56,189 --> 00:21:57,566
I don't remember how many.

367
00:21:57,649 --> 00:21:59,526
- And then--
- Well over a thousand.

368
00:21:59,609 --> 00:22:01,028
It was like, these are <i>the</i> kids.

369
00:22:01,111 --> 00:22:04,781
There was really no one else
that we saw that could do these roles.

370
00:22:05,407 --> 00:22:07,534
Dustin wasn't Dustin until we found Gaten.

371
00:22:08,452 --> 00:22:12,289
I bet that she could make this fly.

372
00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:17,419
Hey, hey. Okay, concentrate, okay?

373
00:22:19,504 --> 00:22:20,797
Okay, one more time.

374
00:22:21,465 --> 00:22:23,008
We cast them very early on,

375
00:22:23,091 --> 00:22:26,219
and they all bonded, they became friends.

376
00:22:26,303 --> 00:22:28,638
We were able to write to them,

377
00:22:28,722 --> 00:22:31,933
and they inspired
the characters in a major way.

378
00:22:36,646 --> 00:22:39,316
I've done this drive for so many years.

379
00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:46,156
I've done this drive before I could drive,
so I started when I was 10.

380
00:22:46,907 --> 00:22:50,243
And I'm now turning 20 years old.

381
00:22:51,453 --> 00:22:53,789
To know that
there's not going to be a next time...

382
00:22:54,956 --> 00:22:56,083
It feels very weird.

383
00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:03,382
Where do we pick Millie up, you know?

384
00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:05,926
We go this, and then to the--

385
00:23:06,009 --> 00:23:08,804
- To the other one and then...
- We cut into...

386
00:23:08,887 --> 00:23:11,223
And then to Millie and it goes down. Okay.

387
00:23:12,516 --> 00:23:14,643
Ready, and action!

388
00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:19,689
- There you go.
- You good?

389
00:23:21,066 --> 00:23:23,151
- But it was amazing.
- We should have shot it.

390
00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:24,694
That was the one.

391
00:23:24,778 --> 00:23:26,029
My legs.

392
00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:28,573
I'm never doing that again.

393
00:23:29,282 --> 00:23:30,534
Yesterday sucked.

394
00:23:30,617 --> 00:23:32,577
Okay, let's do it again. Let's go.

395
00:23:32,661 --> 00:23:35,872
She looks trepidatious, for sure.
Rather than, like, aggressive.

396
00:23:35,956 --> 00:23:37,290
Let me talk to her.

397
00:23:37,374 --> 00:23:39,084
- How'd that speed feel?
- It felt good.

398
00:23:39,167 --> 00:23:41,503
- That felt like not faster to me.
- Okay.

399
00:23:41,586 --> 00:23:42,796
Good. It felt good.

400
00:23:42,879 --> 00:23:46,091
Millie, you are looking terrified
as you go down.

401
00:23:46,174 --> 00:23:47,676
Just letting you know.

402
00:23:48,176 --> 00:23:50,262
Okay. That's my note.

403
00:23:51,179 --> 00:23:52,514
I am half their age.

404
00:23:52,597 --> 00:23:54,891
Okay, I'm 20. They're 40 years old.

405
00:23:56,852 --> 00:23:59,146
And yet we get along like a house on fire.

406
00:23:59,229 --> 00:24:02,190
It's just like, we're not really meant
to be friends, but we are.

407
00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:04,734
We are tied to each other forever.

408
00:24:04,818 --> 00:24:05,735
Action!

409
00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:11,241
Yes! There you go!

410
00:24:12,576 --> 00:24:13,660
Yeah!

411
00:24:14,494 --> 00:24:16,204
{\an8}Starting with season 1,

412
00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:20,208
{\an8}Eleven was so vulnerable and scared and...

413
00:24:20,959 --> 00:24:23,837
{\an8}she didn't know what love was,
she didn't know friendships.

414
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,213
{\an8}Papa!

415
00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:28,341
{\an8}In season 5, she knows what love is,

416
00:24:28,425 --> 00:24:31,887
and she knows what anger is,
and she knows what her emotions are.

417
00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:33,847
She kind of knows who she is.

418
00:24:33,930 --> 00:24:38,852
She has many friendships
and many loves and I think...

419
00:24:39,895 --> 00:24:44,900
kind of learning the foundation of how to
be a human within five seasons has been...

420
00:24:44,983 --> 00:24:47,068
yeah, the biggest growth of all.

421
00:24:51,948 --> 00:24:55,243
Yeah, so maybe next time you get scared,
you won't need Mr. Whatsit.

422
00:24:55,327 --> 00:24:57,787
Maybe you just need Holly the Heroic.

423
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,291
She'll keep you safe. I promise.

424
00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:05,212
- Do I...
- Something like that?

425
00:25:05,712 --> 00:25:08,089
- I love that scene.
- Yeah, it feels really nice.

426
00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:11,551
It's almost like talking to
a younger version of yourself.

427
00:25:11,635 --> 00:25:13,887
- Yeah, it is.
- Yeah. It's really nice.

428
00:25:15,764 --> 00:25:18,642
- So, Hope, you're going to be here.
- Am I sitting down?

429
00:25:19,643 --> 00:25:22,270
{\an8}In high school, we were really shy kids.

430
00:25:22,354 --> 00:25:23,939
{\an8}We didn't have a lot of friends,

431
00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:28,610
{\an8}but Hope immediately,
even when we were so tiny freshmen,

432
00:25:28,693 --> 00:25:31,196
uh, she saw something in us right away.

433
00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:34,491
Aside from being
this really wonderful drama teacher,

434
00:25:34,574 --> 00:25:37,118
she also gave us a lot of confidence.

435
00:25:37,202 --> 00:25:39,955
I don't know if we would've
survived high school without her.

436
00:25:40,038 --> 00:25:42,249
Do we have the principal?
Is the principal here?

437
00:25:42,332 --> 00:25:45,544
Hope, when you have meetings,
you don't have the principal here, do you?

438
00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:50,840
No, well, I mean, it's kind of
mental health-y, right? Like...

439
00:25:50,924 --> 00:25:53,218
- It is mental health-y.
- I think we would talk first.

440
00:25:53,301 --> 00:25:54,886
- But not in the '80s though.
- No.

441
00:25:55,470 --> 00:25:57,722
She was a big, big inspiration for us,

442
00:25:57,806 --> 00:26:00,809
and it was really exciting
to put her in the show.

443
00:26:01,643 --> 00:26:03,186
Even in high school,

444
00:26:03,270 --> 00:26:08,984
they were both more fearless
and more considered than their peers.

445
00:26:10,026 --> 00:26:12,153
The boys were really aware

446
00:26:12,237 --> 00:26:15,031
of how much they didn't know
and how much they had to learn,

447
00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:17,742
and they were never afraid of failing,

448
00:26:17,826 --> 00:26:20,328
so they took big swings.

449
00:26:22,247 --> 00:26:25,000
These boys didn't spring up
out of the ground.

450
00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:26,585
They're 40 years in the making.

451
00:26:26,668 --> 00:26:32,132
They're a parent who didn't say it's
ridiculous to buy third-graders a camera.

452
00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:36,261
Everyone, if you want
a gold star, what do we be?

453
00:26:36,886 --> 00:26:38,388
Quiet!

454
00:26:38,471 --> 00:26:40,056
Good job.

455
00:26:40,765 --> 00:26:42,434
Everyone shush your neighbor walking in.

456
00:26:42,517 --> 00:26:45,395
A single file line, everybody.
Single file line.

457
00:26:46,896 --> 00:26:50,191
{\an8}- Have you guys all seen the show?
- Oh, yeah. I've watched all of it.

458
00:26:50,275 --> 00:26:52,319
{\an8}- I love it.
- I'm in the middle of season 2.

459
00:26:52,402 --> 00:26:53,236
It's a good show.

460
00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:56,781
I think they actually love
working with kids.

461
00:26:56,865 --> 00:26:58,366
It matches their energy.

462
00:26:59,075 --> 00:27:01,286
They remember what it was like
when your imagination could

463
00:27:01,369 --> 00:27:03,830
take you to these places
and create these things.

464
00:27:05,123 --> 00:27:07,417
They're still like our characters
in the basement.

465
00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:09,961
That's also what makes them
amazing filmmakers,

466
00:27:10,045 --> 00:27:11,588
that childlike sense of wonder.

467
00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:14,633
And then just go to the bathroom.

468
00:27:14,716 --> 00:27:16,343
That will become
the scene we already shot.

469
00:27:16,426 --> 00:27:18,970
- What? Y'all made two bathrooms?
- We made two bathrooms.

470
00:27:19,721 --> 00:27:21,306
That's crazy!

471
00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:24,476
Rolling, rolling.

472
00:27:28,063 --> 00:27:29,606
We had this idea that

473
00:27:29,689 --> 00:27:32,984
our characters would
need to leave their childhood behind.

474
00:27:33,068 --> 00:27:35,362
And then pass the baton

475
00:27:35,445 --> 00:27:36,905
to the next generation,

476
00:27:36,988 --> 00:27:38,657
Holly and her friends.

477
00:27:41,076 --> 00:27:44,788
It's interesting. I mean, of course,
Holly was always there, but...

478
00:27:44,871 --> 00:27:47,999
nobody was really minding her.

479
00:27:53,588 --> 00:27:57,884
"Chapter Two:
The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler."

480
00:27:58,885 --> 00:28:00,053
We're in the Wheeler house.

481
00:28:00,136 --> 00:28:03,264
We begin with a Demogorgon
roaring at Holly through the rift.

482
00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:05,600
Holly doesn't wait around
for this thing to come for her.

483
00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:08,436
She lets go of her
Holly the Heroic necklace and runs.

484
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,314
{\an8}Okay. Ready, and action.

485
00:28:15,944 --> 00:28:18,488
You're like
a little Speedy Gonzales there.

486
00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:19,989
What?

487
00:28:20,073 --> 00:28:22,325
You're Speedy Gonz...
You know who Speedy Gonzales is?

488
00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:25,203
This is so depressing. Okay. Let's...

489
00:28:25,286 --> 00:28:27,872
- Do you feel old yet?
- I do.

490
00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:30,291
Ready, and action, Nell.

491
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,509
- What's... What happened?
- What's wrong?

492
00:28:39,592 --> 00:28:41,010
Why are you so dirty?

493
00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:43,596
- Holly.
- Cutting on rehearsal.

494
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,014
Rolling, rolling.

495
00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:47,183
Action.

496
00:28:49,185 --> 00:28:50,562
Mom! Mom!

497
00:28:50,645 --> 00:28:53,773
The moms in the '80s movies
weren't just the mom.

498
00:28:54,274 --> 00:28:55,984
You look at Sigourney Weaver.

499
00:28:56,067 --> 00:29:00,071
And Linda Hamilton in <i>Terminator.</i>
I mean, like, kick-ass mom.

500
00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:04,033
- Mom! Mom!
- Baby, it's just a nightmare. Come here.

501
00:29:04,117 --> 00:29:07,412
- It's not a nightmare.
- All right, cut. That was great.

502
00:29:07,912 --> 00:29:09,622
Season 1, she's the mom.

503
00:29:10,331 --> 00:29:12,876
And then she starts to evolve.

504
00:29:13,626 --> 00:29:15,670
The evolution to being an action hero

505
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:17,714
{\an8}is the natural progression for me.

506
00:29:17,797 --> 00:29:20,383
{\an8}I think maybe
that's all I ever wanted to do.

507
00:29:21,217 --> 00:29:22,343
Cut!

508
00:29:23,219 --> 00:29:24,387
That seemed good.

509
00:29:28,266 --> 00:29:30,059
- Mom!
- No, Mom!

510
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,980
- Come on!
- Up.

511
00:29:34,063 --> 00:29:36,649
- Go, go, go, go.
- The wine. Go, go, go.

512
00:29:36,733 --> 00:29:39,027
Right, for her to go out, actually.

513
00:29:39,110 --> 00:29:41,321
You just go, "Stay back," is what you say.

514
00:29:41,404 --> 00:29:42,947
- Stay back.
- Stay back.

515
00:29:43,031 --> 00:29:44,032
Holly, stay back!

516
00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:46,993
You think you can fight
this thing off, maybe?

517
00:29:47,076 --> 00:29:48,161
Hell, yeah.

518
00:29:49,078 --> 00:29:52,582
- I'm going to save your life.
- You are. Thank you, Mom.

519
00:29:52,665 --> 00:29:54,042
That's what moms do.

520
00:29:56,711 --> 00:30:01,174
The blood from your mom
is going to hit you...

521
00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:03,760
in the face.

522
00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:07,055
I'm sorry, it's not funny. And then, um...

523
00:30:09,641 --> 00:30:12,101
And then, yeah, that's it.
Then it's coming for you.

524
00:30:12,185 --> 00:30:15,146
You're so terrified that you can't move.

525
00:30:15,230 --> 00:30:17,148
And then end of scene.

526
00:30:18,775 --> 00:30:22,111
We had always wanted to have
a Wheeler house attack sequence,

527
00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:25,949
and have held back on that
for the last seven years.

528
00:30:27,367 --> 00:30:30,370
What would Karen do
if she encounters a Demogorgon?

529
00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:34,582
She shares so many qualities with Nancy.

530
00:30:35,708 --> 00:30:40,964
So we wanted to see
that ferocity within her unleashed.

531
00:30:42,048 --> 00:30:44,634
Ready, and action!

532
00:30:46,094 --> 00:30:48,012
Go, baby, go. Go!

533
00:30:51,099 --> 00:30:52,141
Mom!

534
00:30:52,225 --> 00:30:53,935
- The timing was good...
- Cut!

535
00:30:54,018 --> 00:30:55,812
- Cut.
- I know.

536
00:30:56,312 --> 00:30:57,647
But the timing was better.

537
00:30:57,730 --> 00:30:59,524
- Timing was better, right?
- Much better.

538
00:30:59,607 --> 00:31:03,152
So satisfying, isn't it?
It looks like we're hurting our actors.

539
00:31:03,236 --> 00:31:04,195
I know, right?

540
00:31:04,779 --> 00:31:05,613
I love it.

541
00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:07,699
It's the kind of thing
no one's gonna think about,

542
00:31:07,782 --> 00:31:10,118
but it's going to have an effect.

543
00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:15,123
Audiences are getting increasingly savvy
to lots of cuts.

544
00:31:15,206 --> 00:31:17,375
Locked in, quiet, ring the bell, please.

545
00:31:18,918 --> 00:31:21,546
I love that the Duffers wrote this for me.

546
00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:26,426
They could've written, "She's screaming,
running away, and cowering."

547
00:31:26,509 --> 00:31:30,013
But she's in her wet nightgown
coming out to kick ass.

548
00:31:30,096 --> 00:31:32,390
Transforming into a warrior.

549
00:31:35,226 --> 00:31:40,523
Stay away from my daughter!

550
00:31:41,941 --> 00:31:43,109
No, Mom!

551
00:31:43,943 --> 00:31:45,778
- Yeah, let's cut.
- Tail sticks.

552
00:31:45,862 --> 00:31:47,614
- So good.
- She's badass.

553
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:51,200
They've always written strong women.

554
00:31:51,951 --> 00:31:54,037
I've always loved
what they've given me to do.

555
00:31:54,621 --> 00:31:57,248
Look out, Phil,
she might be after your job.

556
00:31:57,332 --> 00:32:02,211
It's a lot of body positioning
and, like, looking a certain way.

557
00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:05,423
Go to hell!

558
00:32:06,049 --> 00:32:07,508
I find that fun.

559
00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:11,763
It's a more exciting day to me
than just sitting and talking.

560
00:32:11,846 --> 00:32:13,097
Those are great too,

561
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:16,351
but you're kind of moving,
and it feels very kinetic.

562
00:32:16,434 --> 00:32:17,393
I'm coming.

563
00:32:17,977 --> 00:32:21,606
- There's no way that's Mad Max.
- Yeah, girls don't play video games.

564
00:32:22,106 --> 00:32:24,943
When I was younger,
I didn't really understand the impact

565
00:32:25,026 --> 00:32:30,615
of playing a female character like this
on a show of...

566
00:32:30,698 --> 00:32:32,116
at this scale.

567
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,286
Now that I have
a little bit more perspective,

568
00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:40,333
I can see that, yeah, Max is
a good role model for girls out there.

569
00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:45,421
Put this one on first,
put that one a bit closer,

570
00:32:45,505 --> 00:32:47,840
{\an8}and put that one
there so it looks like he...

571
00:32:47,924 --> 00:32:48,800
{\an8}Oh, yeah.

572
00:32:49,717 --> 00:32:51,886
{\an8}'Cause doesn't he, like...
he impales, right?

573
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:53,680
Yeah. Did you see the pre-vis?

574
00:32:53,763 --> 00:32:55,974
In the pre-vis,
it went up through your back.

575
00:32:56,057 --> 00:32:56,975
That's what I saw.

576
00:32:57,058 --> 00:33:00,019
They were like, "I don't think
that's gonna be a thing. She'd be dead."

577
00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:01,771
You would die. Exactly.

578
00:33:02,647 --> 00:33:04,232
- That's better.
- I survive.

579
00:33:04,315 --> 00:33:05,692
{\an8}Like that.

580
00:33:05,775 --> 00:33:07,485
{\an8}Want to take a quick pic?

581
00:33:07,568 --> 00:33:09,570
- Oh, God, it's gruesome.
- Slashy.

582
00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:11,864
Yeah, look at that.

583
00:33:13,366 --> 00:33:16,536
- How much Demo blood do we want?
- We need to establish a fair amount.

584
00:33:16,619 --> 00:33:20,623
Because they track the Demo
in the Upside Down via the blood.

585
00:33:20,707 --> 00:33:21,624
Right.

586
00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:27,422
{\an8}In some ways,
this show is an ode to our childhood.

587
00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:31,300
We like the idea
that young kids are watching this,

588
00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:36,097
maybe feeling like it's right on the edge
of what they shouldn't be seeing.

589
00:33:37,223 --> 00:33:40,768
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Just not touch anything, right?

590
00:33:42,103 --> 00:33:44,063
Had a... Had a little accident.

591
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:49,402
And here, and then this is your knee here...

592
00:33:49,485 --> 00:33:51,738
- Like this?
- Yep. And your foot here.

593
00:33:52,238 --> 00:33:54,907
We're trying to see your feet,
then the phone, then your hand.

594
00:33:54,991 --> 00:33:58,453
I'm sorry. If I may, I'm just gonna touch
your foot and your knee here.

595
00:33:58,536 --> 00:34:00,455
- Yes.
- Like that. That's what we want.

596
00:34:00,538 --> 00:34:03,249
So let's get some blood
and some water on her. Let's go.

597
00:34:03,332 --> 00:34:05,043
Now that looks good.

598
00:34:05,626 --> 00:34:08,963
- I feel like I don't know how I survived.
- I don't... You should be dead.

599
00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:10,673
- It's a miracle.
- Is it too much?

600
00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:13,885
Is it too much?

601
00:34:15,553 --> 00:34:19,390
I think the show and working
on the show is an acquired taste.

602
00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:24,854
It's not a typical television show,
and it's an insane amount of work.

603
00:34:25,354 --> 00:34:30,651
But it attracts people who want
to be working at the highest level.

604
00:34:34,989 --> 00:34:37,116
Do you guys have a minute for Amy?

605
00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:38,618
Of course.

606
00:34:40,620 --> 00:34:42,455
Kali... Without knowing the ending,

607
00:34:42,538 --> 00:34:44,832
I'm assuming
it should feel kind of powerful.

608
00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:47,585
- She is going to be shot.
- Okay.

609
00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:50,088
Which is a big story point.

610
00:34:50,171 --> 00:34:53,049
If she's shot, I kind of imagine
her getting shot in the gut.

611
00:34:53,132 --> 00:34:53,966
Yeah.

612
00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,760
It's a shot that will kill her.

613
00:34:55,843 --> 00:34:57,762
- Oh, okay.
- Sorry, spoiler.

614
00:34:57,845 --> 00:34:58,888
No, it's...

615
00:34:59,847 --> 00:35:02,767
It's not like we don't know
what the ending is. It's all plotted out.

616
00:35:02,850 --> 00:35:03,851
I just have to...

617
00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:06,395
I have to write it.

618
00:35:06,479 --> 00:35:09,690
- And we're just like, low on time.
- Yeah.

619
00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:12,985
I used to be like, seven days a week,
blah, blah, blah,

620
00:35:13,069 --> 00:35:14,487
and I can't do it anymore.

621
00:35:14,570 --> 00:35:17,865
- I have two kids now, and I just like...
- Yeah.

622
00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:20,576
Do you guys have kids?

623
00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:21,994
Yeah, but they're 40.

624
00:35:22,078 --> 00:35:25,289
They're 40.
Yeah, but you remember. Do you remember?

625
00:35:25,790 --> 00:35:28,126
I mean, I was working
when they were young.

626
00:35:28,209 --> 00:35:30,211
And, you know, I mean...

627
00:35:30,294 --> 00:35:33,673
- It's a tough career to have with kids.
- It's very tough.

628
00:35:36,175 --> 00:35:38,761
Because it is so... difficult,

629
00:35:38,845 --> 00:35:41,764
and it can feel
like such a grind sometimes,

630
00:35:41,848 --> 00:35:45,476
you have to enjoy challenges.

631
00:35:46,894 --> 00:35:49,772
Everyone loves a challenge,
and we certainly gave it to them.

632
00:35:49,856 --> 00:35:52,441
- Oh, shit, I'm sorry. I didn't even...
- No, it's all right.

633
00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:55,236
We have a backlot.

634
00:35:56,737 --> 00:35:58,239
Just another backlot.

635
00:35:58,865 --> 00:35:59,699
No biggie.

636
00:35:59,782 --> 00:36:01,159
{\an8}That's so sick.

637
00:36:01,242 --> 00:36:02,910
{\an8}- It's really cool.
- That is crazy.

638
00:36:03,494 --> 00:36:06,372
{\an8}The MAC-Z is our first backlot set.

639
00:36:06,455 --> 00:36:07,748
It's so rad.

640
00:36:08,374 --> 00:36:10,960
I've always wanted to shoot on a backlot.

641
00:36:11,043 --> 00:36:13,546
Me too. I've always wanted to build one.

642
00:36:14,964 --> 00:36:16,674
Yeah, it should be good.

643
00:36:16,757 --> 00:36:20,303
'Cause I remember when we were kids
and we saw the one in Wilmington,

644
00:36:20,386 --> 00:36:23,598
where they shot <i>The Crow</i> and stuff,
just thinking it was so cool.

645
00:36:24,307 --> 00:36:27,476
{\an8}When we first started, we felt like kids.

646
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,645
{\an8}When we were
first building the Wheeler house,

647
00:36:29,729 --> 00:36:32,231
{\an8}we were like, "I can't believe
they're letting us do this."

648
00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:35,359
But, you know,
you always envision these giant backlots.

649
00:36:35,443 --> 00:36:38,946
That's kind of a benchmark
of a really big show.

650
00:36:40,031 --> 00:36:42,950
We recreated downtown Hawkins

651
00:36:43,034 --> 00:36:45,077
where our MAC-Z is going to be.

652
00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:51,000
{\an8}It took forever to build.
It took <i>forever</i> to build.

653
00:36:54,128 --> 00:36:56,631
{\an8}Early on,
when we were breaking this season,

654
00:36:56,714 --> 00:36:59,050
we knew that it was gonna be split
in the middle.

655
00:36:59,133 --> 00:37:02,929
And so we wanted to build to a big climax
before the break

656
00:37:03,012 --> 00:37:06,766
because we knew the audience was going
to have to wait for the next episode.

657
00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:09,727
But it ended up being even bigger

658
00:37:09,810 --> 00:37:11,896
and more complicated
than we could ever imagine.

659
00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:17,193
There's no question,
the MAC-Z action sequence is the biggest

660
00:37:17,276 --> 00:37:19,862
and most challenging sequence
we've ever done.

661
00:37:21,364 --> 00:37:25,243
I think it's a great example of
multiple departments collaborating.

662
00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:28,829
It really helps that
so many of these department heads

663
00:37:28,913 --> 00:37:32,959
we've been working with for a long time.
So there's a lot of trust there.

664
00:37:33,042 --> 00:37:35,962
They're not coming to us with problems.
They're usually coming to us with,

665
00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:38,547
"This is our solution to this problem."

666
00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:41,676
- Can you guys hear me all right?
<i>- Yeah.</i>

667
00:37:41,759 --> 00:37:44,262
All right, so we have
a revised version of the oner.

668
00:37:44,345 --> 00:37:46,180
I'll just let it play.

669
00:37:49,767 --> 00:37:51,811
When the Demos come in
and start attacking,

670
00:37:51,894 --> 00:37:54,897
we wanted to go into a single shot.

671
00:37:55,564 --> 00:37:59,402
We wanted to feel like you're truly with
these characters and there's no escape.

672
00:37:59,485 --> 00:38:02,571
Don't give the audience any edits
to give them any room to breathe.

673
00:38:05,574 --> 00:38:06,826
<i>Oh, wow, yeah.</i>

674
00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:10,246
<i>Yes.</i>

675
00:38:13,249 --> 00:38:15,251
<i>Oh, that's cool.</i>

676
00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:16,627
<i>That's awesome. Yeah.</i>

677
00:38:16,711 --> 00:38:18,004
<i>It's really cool.</i>

678
00:38:18,087 --> 00:38:20,298
<i>Well, this will be easy to do.
Right, Peter?</i>

679
00:38:20,381 --> 00:38:22,466
<i>Shouldn't be a problem. Yeah.</i>

680
00:38:23,175 --> 00:38:24,010
{\an8}You good, Nel?

681
00:38:24,093 --> 00:38:27,054
{\an8}Yeah, guys, let's get ready
to shoot one of these with pulls.

682
00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:28,556
With pulls.

683
00:38:29,223 --> 00:38:31,976
Hiro's the one that really has to
make this stuff come alive.

684
00:38:32,059 --> 00:38:35,021
We can have a Demogorgon
do anything we want it to do

685
00:38:35,104 --> 00:38:36,439
because it's animated,

686
00:38:36,522 --> 00:38:40,067
but when it's involving real people,
it becomes that much more complicated.

687
00:38:40,776 --> 00:38:41,986
Ready, and go!

688
00:38:42,069 --> 00:38:44,905
The bros' most important thing
was the big oner.

689
00:38:44,989 --> 00:38:48,117
That was the thing
that we concentrated on first.

690
00:38:49,952 --> 00:38:53,873
We'll be down here prepping
for a solid six weeks.

691
00:38:54,457 --> 00:38:58,085
It's such a puzzle piece
to put this whole thing together. Um...

692
00:38:58,169 --> 00:39:00,212
{\an8}Yeah. I hope it works.

693
00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:02,882
{\an8}I can't wait to see it.
I hope it all comes together.

694
00:39:04,633 --> 00:39:06,010
Ready, and go!

695
00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:08,846
An action sequence this enormous

696
00:39:08,929 --> 00:39:12,391
could have very easily
been taken over by visual effects,

697
00:39:12,475 --> 00:39:14,685
but the Duffer brothers say,
"Do it practically."

698
00:39:14,769 --> 00:39:19,940
"We want to see it in actuality
rather than computer generated."

699
00:39:20,024 --> 00:39:20,983
Go!

700
00:39:22,485 --> 00:39:23,569
Stop!

701
00:39:32,703 --> 00:39:35,581
{\an8}There's a slightly larger
discussion to be had

702
00:39:35,664 --> 00:39:38,542
just as we think about this
that's even beyond...

703
00:39:39,293 --> 00:39:41,796
the character arc,
which is the series arc.

704
00:39:42,505 --> 00:39:46,592
This show is about how life
does throw this stuff at you,

705
00:39:46,675 --> 00:39:48,344
the hard stuff, but you overcome it.

706
00:39:48,427 --> 00:39:52,264
But it's not just about
overcoming these obstacles.

707
00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:54,308
No, it's like the joy of the adventure.

708
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:58,771
And that's what people don't understand
when we're not killing people off

709
00:39:58,854 --> 00:40:02,775
because we're always like,
"We have to maintain this sense of fun

710
00:40:02,858 --> 00:40:05,903
in the show
or it doesn't become the show anymore."

711
00:40:05,986 --> 00:40:09,949
So... Or, you know,
it just becomes depressing.

712
00:40:10,032 --> 00:40:11,784
Which is why I think Eleven...

713
00:40:11,867 --> 00:40:14,453
I know we all talked about the trauma
that she's experienced,

714
00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:18,207
and I think that you have to be able
to move on from that.

715
00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:23,546
Um, like, I always thought
that she kind of represents magic.

716
00:40:23,629 --> 00:40:26,006
- And so she has to leave.
- Yeah.

717
00:40:26,090 --> 00:40:29,677
She has to be gone
in order for them to move on.

718
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,720
Like the door to Narnia closes for you,

719
00:40:31,804 --> 00:40:35,474
and then some other kids are gonna find
another door to Narnia later.

720
00:40:35,558 --> 00:40:37,184
- But you're never going back.
- Yeah.

721
00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:40,896
You never lose this piece of you
but you have to grow...

722
00:40:40,980 --> 00:40:42,773
- Right.
- ...and move on from it.

723
00:40:48,737 --> 00:40:50,698
The show is so large,

724
00:40:50,781 --> 00:40:53,451
and there's so many pages to shoot

725
00:40:53,534 --> 00:40:56,495
that Ross and I can simply
not direct the whole thing.

726
00:40:56,579 --> 00:40:59,373
{\an8}It's impossible.
This is something we realized in season 1.

727
00:40:59,915 --> 00:41:02,585
{\an8}We were either going to
have to rush the scripts,

728
00:41:02,668 --> 00:41:05,838
{\an8}and have them not at the quality we wanted
in order to direct them all,

729
00:41:05,921 --> 00:41:07,214
{\an8}or bring in guest directors.

730
00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:08,132
{\an8}Cut.

731
00:41:08,215 --> 00:41:11,177
{\an8}And something crazy happened
in that Shawn Levy,

732
00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:14,847
{\an8}who's, you know, a very established
and successful director,

733
00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:17,224
{\an8}who was our producer at the time,
raised his hand.

734
00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:19,768
{\an8}He really liked the scripts
and offered to direct.

735
00:41:19,852 --> 00:41:22,521
{\an8}We'll shoot this. I'm gonna cut it,
Bobby, before the push in.

736
00:41:22,605 --> 00:41:26,859
So from that point on, we've had
directors on board every season.

737
00:41:26,942 --> 00:41:28,652
{\an8}- Nick. A-Cam Nick?
- Yeah.

738
00:41:28,736 --> 00:41:31,947
{\an8}Oh, there you are.
I was thinking that on that...

739
00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:35,034
{\an8}Frank Darabont is
a real personal hero of ours.

740
00:41:35,117 --> 00:41:38,662
He's directed some
of my favorite films of all time.

741
00:41:38,746 --> 00:41:42,917
<i>Shawshank Redemption,
The Green Mile, The Mist.</i>

742
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,294
We took the risk
of a little bit of embarrassment,

743
00:41:45,377 --> 00:41:48,672
emailed him asking, you know,
"No pressure at all,

744
00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:52,426
just want to see if, by chance,
I know you probably won't want to,

745
00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:56,096
but is there any world
in which you would want to direct?"

746
00:41:56,180 --> 00:41:59,058
Why not? Why not?
We love the show that much.

747
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:05,940
It's very much a throwback to the kind of
movies I grew up with and grew up loving.

748
00:42:06,023 --> 00:42:07,399
And action.

749
00:42:07,483 --> 00:42:13,155
For the most part, everything
that you see on screen is actually there.

750
00:42:13,864 --> 00:42:17,076
It's kind of a more of
an old school way to do things.

751
00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:21,872
You don't want to be hurting this guy.
You don't want to be fighting him at all.

752
00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:24,333
What you're trying to do is talk him down.

753
00:42:24,416 --> 00:42:26,544
God damn it!

754
00:42:26,627 --> 00:42:27,878
Building the sets,

755
00:42:27,962 --> 00:42:32,508
{\an8}creating a real environment for the crew
to work in and for the cast to work in,

756
00:42:32,591 --> 00:42:34,510
{\an8}there's just a difference to it.

757
00:42:34,593 --> 00:42:36,637
{\an8}But it's ambitious.

758
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:40,266
{\an8}And, uh, Matt and Ross
do not write simple scenes.

759
00:42:41,934 --> 00:42:42,810
Action!

760
00:42:42,893 --> 00:42:46,272
Every scene in this
has some layers of complication.

761
00:42:47,731 --> 00:42:48,732
Wow.

762
00:42:49,358 --> 00:42:51,819
Excellent. Excellent. One more.

763
00:42:51,902 --> 00:42:54,321
It's one of the things
that makes the show special,

764
00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:56,824
but it's also one of the things
that makes the show

765
00:42:56,907 --> 00:42:59,868
a real challenge to shoot day to day.

766
00:42:59,952 --> 00:43:00,953
Lean out.

767
00:43:01,453 --> 00:43:02,413
And...

768
00:43:03,789 --> 00:43:04,665
Clear.

769
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:06,542
Let's go back.

770
00:43:07,751 --> 00:43:12,006
When you turn to her, you actually
did turn your shoulder as well.

771
00:43:12,089 --> 00:43:13,048
Yeah.

772
00:43:14,758 --> 00:43:15,676
Okay.

773
00:43:15,759 --> 00:43:17,428
Sound is speeding.

774
00:43:20,514 --> 00:43:21,515
Sadie.

775
00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:27,313
Okay, that's looking good. Keep going.

776
00:43:27,396 --> 00:43:28,814
And act clear.

777
00:43:29,690 --> 00:43:32,484
Yeah, there you go.
That one looked really good.

778
00:43:34,069 --> 00:43:37,698
This is a very early Orson Welles trick.

779
00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:40,784
They did that in <i>Citizen Kane,</i>

780
00:43:40,868 --> 00:43:42,161
<i>going through a neon sign,</i>

781
00:43:42,244 --> 00:43:44,705
<i>and the neon sign
literally just was pulled apart</i>

782
00:43:44,788 --> 00:43:46,498
<i>as the camera went through.</i>

783
00:43:46,582 --> 00:43:48,709
{\an8}Very innovative stuff back in its day.

784
00:43:48,792 --> 00:43:50,377
{\an8}- It's a magic trick.
- Yeah.

785
00:43:53,505 --> 00:43:54,923
What's going on in The Abyss?

786
00:43:56,050 --> 00:43:58,218
I just am feeling like

787
00:43:58,302 --> 00:44:00,763
there's such a promise
of some sort of battle

788
00:44:01,972 --> 00:44:03,015
there.

789
00:44:04,308 --> 00:44:05,684
And how do we do it?

790
00:44:09,188 --> 00:44:12,399
I mean, the thing that's cool
is the giant monster.

791
00:44:14,068 --> 00:44:15,653
I mean, that's what's new.

792
00:44:16,236 --> 00:44:17,655
Oh wait, we have this VFX test.

793
00:44:18,238 --> 00:44:20,449
If you want the teens
and Will and all them

794
00:44:20,532 --> 00:44:22,951
to face off against
this giant Mind Flayer,

795
00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:25,621
they need to be outside of here
when it comes alive.

796
00:44:25,704 --> 00:44:29,208
Ideally, the thing stands up
like a big spider,

797
00:44:29,291 --> 00:44:30,918
and can do a chase.

798
00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:32,670
Some version of a chase.

799
00:44:32,753 --> 00:44:35,005
I don't even know what a chase looks like.

800
00:44:35,089 --> 00:44:37,299
It'll outrun them so quickly.

801
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,845
The kids, they've all expressed to me,
Mike,

802
00:44:41,929 --> 00:44:43,430
and I think they do have a point,

803
00:44:43,514 --> 00:44:47,184
that they would like
to take part in that fight.

804
00:44:47,267 --> 00:44:49,269
Especially Finn's like, you know,

805
00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:51,855
- "Don't give me a candlestick, please."
- Candlestick?

806
00:44:51,939 --> 00:44:53,190
Um, which is fair.

807
00:44:53,273 --> 00:44:56,902
He really wants a gun
and I'm just like, "I don't think so."

808
00:44:56,985 --> 00:44:57,986
No.

809
00:44:59,988 --> 00:45:03,242
Does it kind of feel like
they should all be in the rib cage? Like...

810
00:45:03,325 --> 00:45:04,827
Yeah, I think so.

811
00:45:04,910 --> 00:45:08,163
Even if there are monsters attacking,
run inside the rib cage.

812
00:45:09,206 --> 00:45:10,624
Get the kids out.

813
00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:16,714
There's a version of they...
The teens stay outside.

814
00:45:16,797 --> 00:45:17,965
They've got the weapons.

815
00:45:18,048 --> 00:45:22,261
So if they have to fend off, whatever,
Demos or whatever it is that are coming,

816
00:45:22,344 --> 00:45:23,762
it's like, go get the kids.

817
00:45:24,346 --> 00:45:26,557
There have to be
some monsters in The Abyss.

818
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,185
- I agree.
- There has to be Demogorgon, bat,

819
00:45:30,686 --> 00:45:32,312
dog, like something.

820
00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:35,232
It's crazy if there's nothing there,
I think.

821
00:45:36,608 --> 00:45:37,568
Hm.

822
00:45:38,277 --> 00:45:40,946
You know, in the MAC-Z, it is insane,

823
00:45:41,029 --> 00:45:43,991
insane and so climactic and that...

824
00:45:44,074 --> 00:45:46,326
it is climactic because we have

825
00:45:46,410 --> 00:45:50,706
- six Demos attacking simultaneously.
- Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot.

826
00:45:51,206 --> 00:45:54,752
Yeah, I guess I maybe feel...

827
00:45:54,835 --> 00:45:57,337
wonder about Demo fatigue at the...

828
00:45:58,172 --> 00:46:00,340
Yeah, I mean, that's fair.

829
00:46:05,220 --> 00:46:08,182
Like, how exhausting, right?
This is crazy.

830
00:46:10,225 --> 00:46:11,226
It's a lot.

831
00:46:16,899 --> 00:46:18,442
{\an8}- Hey!
- What up, dude?

832
00:46:19,276 --> 00:46:21,987
Oh! What's up, dog!

833
00:46:22,070 --> 00:46:24,406
Finnster said you're crushing it
in this scene.

834
00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:26,325
He's crushing it. How you guys doing?

835
00:46:26,408 --> 00:46:28,118
We're good. How you been doing? Good?

836
00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:29,369
- Chilling.
- Chilling?

837
00:46:29,453 --> 00:46:31,079
- Just vibing.
- Just vibing?

838
00:46:31,163 --> 00:46:32,664
Kicking some Demogorgon butt?

839
00:46:32,748 --> 00:46:34,583
- Yeah. How's scriptwriting?
- Good.

840
00:46:34,666 --> 00:46:36,543
- Good, it's gonna be sweet.
- Yeah?

841
00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:38,003
Good stuff. Pretty epic shit.

842
00:46:38,086 --> 00:46:40,881
- Do I have another running scene?
- There's definitely running.

843
00:46:40,964 --> 00:46:42,925
When you're sweating,
I'm going to remind you.

844
00:46:43,008 --> 00:46:45,677
- I don't care. I been working out.
- Dust is in your face.

845
00:46:45,761 --> 00:46:47,513
- Really?
- It's gonna be intense.

846
00:46:47,596 --> 00:46:48,847
Oh, it's gonna be awesome.

847
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,062
Is this how we are doing this?

848
00:46:55,145 --> 00:46:56,522
Class is in session?

849
00:46:57,272 --> 00:46:59,525
- Ross, where are you going?
- Wherever.

850
00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:02,402
Wait, where...

851
00:47:02,486 --> 00:47:06,406
We're just going to kind of
step you through the big beats.

852
00:47:06,907 --> 00:47:10,661
Basically, this stuff we're imagining
is, like, them splitting up.

853
00:47:10,744 --> 00:47:12,538
There's two teams. They're splitting up.

854
00:47:12,621 --> 00:47:15,457
Yeah, so they stop The Abyss
from coming down,

855
00:47:15,541 --> 00:47:17,918
and so the needle is pierced through.

856
00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:19,962
The problem is, as we get later,

857
00:47:20,045 --> 00:47:23,423
we see that bottom side of
The Abyss that we're not seeing.

858
00:47:23,507 --> 00:47:25,884
It's like all these roots and stuff
beneath the dirt,

859
00:47:25,968 --> 00:47:29,429
and it's just like all these...
It's like really membrane-y.

860
00:47:29,513 --> 00:47:33,183
So the challenge is, how do we...
We've got to sell this root system

861
00:47:33,267 --> 00:47:34,434
interlocking and pulling,

862
00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:37,729
and then we have to sell
that there's a rift directly over top.

863
00:47:37,813 --> 00:47:41,567
{\an8}So we have The Abyss
with its mountains and floating boulders,

864
00:47:41,650 --> 00:47:44,027
{\an8}then we have
an Upside Down version of The Abyss

865
00:47:44,111 --> 00:47:46,238
{\an8}- with mountains and floating boulders.
- Exactly.

866
00:47:46,321 --> 00:47:48,740
{\an8}- And then the sky of the Upside Down.
- That's right.

867
00:47:48,824 --> 00:47:51,743
So if you went through the clouds
in the Upside Down,

868
00:47:51,827 --> 00:47:54,538
you'd hit upside-down boulders.

869
00:47:54,621 --> 00:47:58,542
Yeah. And then when it moves,
the boulders move with it.

870
00:47:58,625 --> 00:48:02,880
- And then there's just the final battle.
- Yeah.

871
00:48:02,963 --> 00:48:05,966
We got rid... There used to be
a midway battle that we got rid of,

872
00:48:06,049 --> 00:48:07,718
so we're just like, final, you know,

873
00:48:07,801 --> 00:48:09,803
then there's a helicopter explosion
but that's...

874
00:48:09,887 --> 00:48:11,889
Then there's the final battle,

875
00:48:11,972 --> 00:48:15,934
which is the Mind Flayer
and then all the Vecna stuff inside.

876
00:48:16,018 --> 00:48:19,021
We tried to not go too crazy.

877
00:48:19,104 --> 00:48:22,941
And inevitably it's gonna change
as we keep writing it.

878
00:48:23,817 --> 00:48:25,694
All right. Wow.

879
00:48:26,528 --> 00:48:27,654
Thank you, guys.

880
00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:34,453
I can't tell from my branch of government

881
00:48:34,536 --> 00:48:39,333
if I need to raise an alarm bell in terms
of the amount of shoot days that I foresee

882
00:48:39,416 --> 00:48:41,376
just from that meeting in absentia.

883
00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:42,502
Yeah, I think so.

884
00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:45,797
I don't know if you have enough intel
from that to raise an alarm bell.

885
00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:47,925
I can't get these sets ready in time.

886
00:48:48,008 --> 00:48:50,636
{\an8}We need to be building
by basically June 3rd

887
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:56,308
{\an8}to hit the November mark
for the Pain Tree on stage.

888
00:48:56,391 --> 00:48:59,353
It's essentially a set that's a creature.

889
00:48:59,436 --> 00:49:01,772
- And it's going to physically move.
- I know.

890
00:49:01,855 --> 00:49:06,026
And they just threw a whole new concept
of what the floor is like,

891
00:49:06,109 --> 00:49:09,279
and the nature of the roots,
and the membranous nature of it all,

892
00:49:09,363 --> 00:49:12,866
and it's like, do we need to factor that
into the physical build of this set?

893
00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:15,535
I mean, the devil's
in the screen direction.

894
00:49:15,619 --> 00:49:18,121
We're gonna get a script,
and it's gonna be like, "Oh,

895
00:49:18,205 --> 00:49:22,250
there's the other like 70% of business
that we couldn't account for," you know?

896
00:49:22,334 --> 00:49:23,418
Yeah, exactly.

897
00:49:23,502 --> 00:49:25,545
Why do we have to have them in the desert?

898
00:49:25,629 --> 00:49:28,215
Because they run through
the entire cave system.

899
00:49:28,298 --> 00:49:29,675
Henry is chasing them now.

900
00:49:29,758 --> 00:49:33,929
They run out the upper exit
and then down into the desert.

901
00:49:34,012 --> 00:49:35,764
Then I don't know what the fuck happens.

902
00:49:35,847 --> 00:49:38,976
We're not going to get
a final script in time for you to do this,

903
00:49:39,059 --> 00:49:41,645
so we're gonna have to base it
on conversations with them.

904
00:49:41,728 --> 00:49:44,564
That's it.
We're just gonna have to figure it out.

905
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:47,442
And it has to be great.

906
00:49:47,943 --> 00:49:51,530
You know what I'm saying?
Like, let's not forget that part of it.

907
00:49:51,613 --> 00:49:54,491
Well, yeah, we're not going to
shit the bed at the end.

908
00:49:54,574 --> 00:49:56,702
That's why I'm saying. It's not...

909
00:49:56,785 --> 00:49:59,287
Not that we've ever half-assed
anything on this show.

910
00:49:59,371 --> 00:50:01,415
It's not going to be,
"That'll be good enough."

911
00:50:01,498 --> 00:50:02,916
We'll never hear that once.

912
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,210
And nor do we want to. You know?

913
00:50:06,795 --> 00:50:09,589
We just got the verbal pitch
for episode eight.

914
00:50:09,673 --> 00:50:11,883
The main topic today

915
00:50:11,967 --> 00:50:15,470
is interior, The Abyss Pain Tree.

916
00:50:15,554 --> 00:50:20,142
It's a big set.
130 feet long and it's 80 feet wide.

917
00:50:20,225 --> 00:50:22,811
We got the meaty, gutty kind of shit.

918
00:50:22,894 --> 00:50:26,064
Bones protruding out of that.
Sinewy connective tissue.

919
00:50:26,148 --> 00:50:28,233
Vines. Thick, black veins.

920
00:50:28,316 --> 00:50:29,943
It's such a bizarre thing.

921
00:50:30,027 --> 00:50:33,321
We're inside the ribs of this monster, basically.

922
00:50:33,405 --> 00:50:36,700
It's like... What's the guy
with the nose that grows?

923
00:50:36,783 --> 00:50:38,368
- Pinocchio.
- Pinocchio.

924
00:50:38,452 --> 00:50:40,996
It's like when Pinocchio
gets swallowed by the whale.

925
00:50:41,079 --> 00:50:43,081
You got 16 weeks now to build that set.

926
00:50:47,711 --> 00:50:51,548
We now have an opportunity to
regain some much-needed stage space.

927
00:50:51,631 --> 00:50:53,967
Because all this shit
that's coming up in eight

928
00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:57,471
ain't going to fit
unless we can start striking sets.

929
00:51:11,234 --> 00:51:12,986
There's definitely challenges.

930
00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:14,362
I started on season 2.

931
00:51:14,446 --> 00:51:16,865
Season 2 ballooned and got a lot bigger.

932
00:51:16,948 --> 00:51:19,534
Season 3 was bigger. Season 4 was bigger.

933
00:51:19,618 --> 00:51:21,328
You have to grow with the show.

934
00:51:21,995 --> 00:51:25,290
Like you have a melting office building.

935
00:51:25,373 --> 00:51:26,875
I don't know what to say.

936
00:51:28,585 --> 00:51:31,922
- This is looking pretty sweet.
- This is the most recent one.

937
00:51:32,005 --> 00:51:34,800
- That is what I imagined.
- It's pretty sweet.

938
00:51:34,883 --> 00:51:36,468
- This is our favorite.
- For sure.

939
00:51:36,551 --> 00:51:37,677
That's the like--

940
00:51:37,761 --> 00:51:39,805
And the mix of the brown and stuff.

941
00:51:39,888 --> 00:51:41,807
Mm-hmm. Showing the weeping colors.

942
00:51:41,890 --> 00:51:44,768
Whatever subsurface is on there
is what is leeching out as well.

943
00:51:44,851 --> 00:51:46,603
- I like that.
- Looks great.

944
00:51:46,686 --> 00:51:47,813
What is this stuff?

945
00:51:47,896 --> 00:51:52,484
It's a sculpted foam underneath
three different densities of poured foam.

946
00:51:52,567 --> 00:51:54,945
- This is an actual...
- That's what I thought it was.

947
00:51:55,028 --> 00:51:59,407
And then it's unified with a rubber spray,
and then it's painted.

948
00:51:59,491 --> 00:52:01,409
- It's a deal.
- It's like 12 steps.

949
00:52:01,493 --> 00:52:03,662
It's gonna be a motherfu... Yeah.

950
00:52:04,246 --> 00:52:06,998
This is what we've conceived of
for the upper floor build

951
00:52:07,082 --> 00:52:11,002
as Jonathan and Nancy are discovering
the more dramatically melted section.

952
00:52:11,086 --> 00:52:12,921
They round this corner.

953
00:52:13,004 --> 00:52:14,548
This is pretty melty.

954
00:52:14,631 --> 00:52:18,218
That idea came about
because of the Jonathan and Nancy talk.

955
00:52:18,301 --> 00:52:20,428
We need to put them in a situation

956
00:52:20,512 --> 00:52:23,765
where they feel that they're going to die,

957
00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:27,435
and it forces them
to have this emotional talk.

958
00:52:28,019 --> 00:52:31,773
The physical stakes are so high,
it forces the emotional stakes to rise.

959
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,818
So we're working backwards from that.

960
00:52:38,822 --> 00:52:40,157
That spring break,

961
00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:43,118
when you were in Lenora,

962
00:52:43,201 --> 00:52:46,288
I didn't really have to stay behind
to work.

963
00:52:46,371 --> 00:52:48,999
I just... I needed space.

964
00:52:50,750 --> 00:52:53,837
Our feeling is still
that it's a flood set, and we build,

965
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,799
essentially, you know, a 30-inch,
you know...

966
00:52:57,883 --> 00:53:00,677
You can fill it up as much
as it would ever need to be filled.

967
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,054
We just do it practically.
We flood the set.

968
00:53:03,138 --> 00:53:05,140
It's not cheap to VFX
the whole thing either.

969
00:53:05,223 --> 00:53:07,893
- It's almost an impossible task.
- We've got to flood it.

970
00:53:07,976 --> 00:53:09,978
It's gonna be one of
the more memorable things.

971
00:53:10,061 --> 00:53:12,397
- As crazy as it is.
- Definitely. It's gonna be awesome.

972
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,984
- Sean'll have nightmares about it.
- I don't want to be there when we shoot.

973
00:53:16,067 --> 00:53:18,069
- It's such a great scene.
- It's gonna great.

974
00:53:18,153 --> 00:53:18,987
Yeah.

975
00:53:19,529 --> 00:53:20,989
When I read that script,

976
00:53:21,072 --> 00:53:24,117
{\an8}all the crew members would walk by
and go, "Have you read it yet?"

977
00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:26,286
{\an8}You know, it was like they knew... Mmm.

978
00:53:27,412 --> 00:53:30,999
It's not so much that the Duffers
are trying to challenge us purposefully.

979
00:53:31,082 --> 00:53:33,376
I think that the challenges
mean they trust us.

980
00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:37,255
If they didn't trust us, they would
not write a melty room into the script.

981
00:53:38,006 --> 00:53:40,717
It's going to melt from the wall
so it should look like drips.

982
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,136
- Ooh, okay.
- Gravity.

983
00:53:43,220 --> 00:53:45,680
- Getting up.
- So let's get onto your knees first.

984
00:53:45,764 --> 00:53:47,057
- Okay.
- Yep.

985
00:53:51,269 --> 00:53:54,773
We're very lucky that all of our
departments work so well together.

986
00:53:55,941 --> 00:53:59,486
{\an8}Us, makeup, wardrobe would always
get together and just be like,

987
00:53:59,569 --> 00:54:03,448
{\an8}"Hey, what do you have?
Because this is what I have."

988
00:54:03,531 --> 00:54:07,077
{\an8}"Do they work together? Do they look
like they belong in the same family?"

989
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,246
You could have gone really far with it

990
00:54:09,329 --> 00:54:12,207
but it would have taken away
from that beautiful moment.

991
00:54:12,290 --> 00:54:13,583
- Hi, guys.
- Hey.

992
00:54:18,338 --> 00:54:21,883
Wow, you guys are a mess.
Looks like you painted a house.

993
00:54:21,967 --> 00:54:23,551
Oh my gosh. Okay.

994
00:54:24,552 --> 00:54:29,849
Amy, is this what you're thinking
for when they...

995
00:54:29,933 --> 00:54:32,185
This is what I want to ask.
Do you think this too much?

996
00:54:32,269 --> 00:54:34,813
This could be before
they clean up at the Squawk.

997
00:54:34,896 --> 00:54:36,940
No, I think they need to be a mess.

998
00:54:37,565 --> 00:54:40,443
The challenge of it is
when Shawn's shooting that scene...

999
00:54:40,527 --> 00:54:41,569
- Right.
- I know.

1000
00:54:41,653 --> 00:54:42,529
...how much...

1001
00:54:42,612 --> 00:54:44,489
The emotional dialogue scene,

1002
00:54:44,572 --> 00:54:47,784
like, do you want
Natalia to look like that?

1003
00:54:49,202 --> 00:54:52,122
- I mean, I kind of do.
- We're gonna do rehearsal. Come on...

1004
00:54:52,205 --> 00:54:53,748
- Matt, we've got to...
- Okay.

1005
00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:56,459
Can you guys just look at each other?

1006
00:54:57,043 --> 00:54:58,044
Okay.

1007
00:54:59,504 --> 00:55:01,965
This is so hard, to do this backwards.

1008
00:55:04,009 --> 00:55:05,176
At the end of the day,

1009
00:55:05,260 --> 00:55:09,306
the audience cares most about
the characters and not the spectacle.

1010
00:55:09,389 --> 00:55:13,560
But the ultimate goal
is to collide the two.

1011
00:55:13,643 --> 00:55:17,689
Max emotion, max spectacle
colliding at the same time.

1012
00:55:31,703 --> 00:55:34,539
{\an8}The beauty of
what we get to do as sculptors is

1013
00:55:34,622 --> 00:55:37,292
we kind of get to use
both sides of the brain.

1014
00:55:38,668 --> 00:55:41,796
We are doing the super elegant lines

1015
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,300
and making that beautiful visual contrast,

1016
00:55:45,383 --> 00:55:48,178
but also incorporating,

1017
00:55:48,261 --> 00:55:52,098
you know, structure or practicality,
things that move.

1018
00:55:53,892 --> 00:55:58,396
There's purpose, there's intent, there's
life to these things that we're creating.

1019
00:56:03,151 --> 00:56:05,945
We work on a lot of shows where

1020
00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:08,865
{\an8}the only thing that sculptors
get to make is a cave.

1021
00:56:09,741 --> 00:56:12,243
{\an8}You watch a show like <i>Stranger Things,</i>
and you're like,

1022
00:56:12,327 --> 00:56:14,871
"Oh, they're actually sculpting
really cool things."

1023
00:56:14,954 --> 00:56:16,456
"I want to be a part of that."

1024
00:56:18,124 --> 00:56:22,670
{\an8}My tentative goal is all 12 columns
are up by the end of July.

1025
00:56:33,723 --> 00:56:37,143
This is what Sean likes
as far as that outer texture.

1026
00:56:37,227 --> 00:56:39,187
The bigger and bolder the better,

1027
00:56:39,270 --> 00:56:42,399
with these kind of dragon skin
almost looking details.

1028
00:56:49,364 --> 00:56:54,202
{\an8}I find playing characters
that are too happy really uncomfortable.

1029
00:56:57,956 --> 00:57:02,752
{\an8}You have to empathize with your characters
and you have to be able to feel for them,

1030
00:57:02,836 --> 00:57:04,629
to be able to fight for them,

1031
00:57:05,213 --> 00:57:06,840
to be able to play them.

1032
00:57:08,758 --> 00:57:11,261
And if you really involve yourself,

1033
00:57:11,344 --> 00:57:14,305
there is a nugget of gold waiting for you.

1034
00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:44,669
Oh, we've got company. How are you?

1035
00:57:44,752 --> 00:57:45,753
I'm good.

1036
00:57:45,837 --> 00:57:47,172
Ooh, yeah. What do you think?

1037
00:57:47,255 --> 00:57:48,756
- It's great.
- Yeah.

1038
00:57:49,382 --> 00:57:51,551
It's super malleable. It's great.

1039
00:57:52,051 --> 00:57:53,052
Yeah.

1040
00:57:54,262 --> 00:57:56,389
Yeah, can I see some expressions?

1041
00:57:56,890 --> 00:57:59,267
Yeah.

1042
00:58:01,769 --> 00:58:02,979
- Yeah.
- Holy shit.

1043
00:58:04,147 --> 00:58:07,525
It's perfect. 'Cause you're still Vecna.
It's just like Vecna 2.0.

1044
00:58:08,902 --> 00:58:10,570
- How do you feel, Jamie?
- Good.

1045
00:58:10,653 --> 00:58:14,949
It feels the same. I know exactly how much
I've got to put on. What I gotta...

1046
00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:16,784
- The movement.
- ...bring out. Yeah.

1047
00:58:16,868 --> 00:58:20,330
It looks beautiful, Barrie. I want to get
some nice close-ups of that.

1048
00:58:20,413 --> 00:58:22,373
{\an8}So we've glossed up the majority,

1049
00:58:22,457 --> 00:58:26,503
{\an8}but we've tried to keep
these sort of charcoal blacks matter.

1050
00:58:27,170 --> 00:58:29,631
We've got areas on the skin
which are a bit more burnt,

1051
00:58:29,714 --> 00:58:31,799
and we've got a bit
of fresh blood in there--

1052
00:58:31,883 --> 00:58:34,594
Yeah, that's really nice.

1053
00:58:36,304 --> 00:58:38,223
I also had some great thoughts last night.

1054
00:58:38,306 --> 00:58:41,226
I think what's really interesting is that

1055
00:58:41,851 --> 00:58:44,437
in his mind, he's gone back home.

1056
00:58:44,521 --> 00:58:48,024
He could go anywhere. This is a choice.
You could be anywhere, right?

1057
00:58:48,107 --> 00:58:49,943
- Yeah.
- He's decided to go back home.

1058
00:58:50,026 --> 00:58:53,488
And he's living in the same house.
It's almost like it becomes this...

1059
00:58:54,072 --> 00:58:57,367
perfect vision of what he wanted it to be,
and what it never was...

1060
00:58:57,450 --> 00:58:59,327
- That's good.
- ...which makes it so human.

1061
00:58:59,410 --> 00:59:02,413
Yeah. And what you wanted
your dad to be, and... Yeah.

1062
00:59:02,497 --> 00:59:05,291
Right. And these are my...
And I had no friends.

1063
00:59:05,375 --> 00:59:08,253
- No one but Patty was nice to me.
- Oh, yeah.

1064
00:59:09,754 --> 00:59:12,632
That's great. That's a great way of...
I love that.

1065
00:59:12,715 --> 00:59:16,844
That's the reality, right?
It feels much more, um... real.

1066
00:59:16,928 --> 00:59:18,555
- And sad.
- And sad.

1067
00:59:19,222 --> 00:59:22,058
And gives it a purpose, which is lovely.

1068
00:59:23,685 --> 00:59:28,940
{\an8}Season 4, when Vecna showed up
as kind of our big bad,

1069
00:59:29,023 --> 00:59:32,902
{\an8}uh, the bros turned to me
for that creature design.

1070
00:59:33,695 --> 00:59:38,366
We must have went through
maybe a hundred different looks.

1071
00:59:38,449 --> 00:59:43,413
Anywhere from a person
who's actually fully clothed with a cloak,

1072
00:59:43,496 --> 00:59:46,457
to somebody who was really diseased.

1073
00:59:46,541 --> 00:59:50,712
And then finally, we used some vines
as kind of a disease for him,

1074
00:59:50,795 --> 00:59:52,505
and that really made it click.

1075
00:59:53,923 --> 00:59:56,676
The MAC-Z in episode four,
that whole sequence

1076
00:59:56,759 --> 01:00:00,263
with Vecna coming out of the gate,
I think it'll be something iconic.

1077
01:00:02,557 --> 01:00:06,728
The Duffers love to move
the camera in a very expressive way.

1078
01:00:06,811 --> 01:00:10,940
{\an8}There's seldom a scene
where there's not some ambitious

1079
01:00:11,024 --> 01:00:15,612
{\an8}or challenging element
that needs to get worked out in advance.

1080
01:00:16,571 --> 01:00:18,906
We like to keep
the camera pretty close to people

1081
01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:22,076
because there's a sense
of intimacy that comes from that.

1082
01:00:22,660 --> 01:00:27,040
We're typically in,
like, the three to five feet range,

1083
01:00:27,123 --> 01:00:29,125
so it's like you would in a conversation.

1084
01:00:29,208 --> 01:00:32,545
But then that also causes you to be
on a slightly wider lens

1085
01:00:32,629 --> 01:00:34,422
so that you're not always like this.

1086
01:00:34,505 --> 01:00:36,674
So you also end up seeing
more of the background.

1087
01:00:37,592 --> 01:00:42,639
With the MAC-Z battle,
we kind of took that one step further,

1088
01:00:42,722 --> 01:00:44,682
where we're on an 18-mil.

1089
01:00:44,766 --> 01:00:46,851
It brings you closer to the actors,

1090
01:00:46,934 --> 01:00:50,271
and you get a sense
of the environment at the same time.

1091
01:00:50,355 --> 01:00:53,024
Would you be cool if we walked
through it together in the space?

1092
01:00:53,107 --> 01:00:54,108
Of course.

1093
01:00:57,820 --> 01:00:59,030
{\an8}I got together with Hiro

1094
01:00:59,113 --> 01:01:02,241
to try to understand
the choreography that he was creating

1095
01:01:02,325 --> 01:01:04,994
so I could try to memorize
that ahead of time.

1096
01:01:08,373 --> 01:01:11,125
How do you get
a camera through these spaces

1097
01:01:11,209 --> 01:01:15,880
and not have any sort of bumps
or anything and just make it perfect?

1098
01:01:15,963 --> 01:01:19,717
Because the brothers, they want
a perfect camera move every take.

1099
01:01:20,426 --> 01:01:22,679
There's a guard over here going,
"Hey, come on."

1100
01:01:22,762 --> 01:01:24,555
Boom, he gets taken out.

1101
01:01:24,639 --> 01:01:26,516
And then we go up the hill...

1102
01:01:27,767 --> 01:01:31,145
I was a dancer as a kid growing up,

1103
01:01:31,229 --> 01:01:36,401
and so I knew that I'd have to be prepared
for it physically and mentally.

1104
01:01:36,484 --> 01:01:39,237
...out behind the Humvee.

1105
01:01:40,321 --> 01:01:41,531
Peek out...

1106
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:43,533
And then...

1107
01:01:45,159 --> 01:01:47,120
It's all choreography
at the end of the day.

1108
01:01:47,203 --> 01:01:51,416
If your partner is the actor,
you have to anticipate them.

1109
01:01:52,834 --> 01:01:54,001
Okay.

1110
01:01:54,794 --> 01:01:56,045
Damn, son.

1111
01:01:57,547 --> 01:01:59,424
Sweet. All right.

1112
01:02:03,177 --> 01:02:06,139
I definitely need to start understanding

1113
01:02:06,222 --> 01:02:09,642
what the rehearsal period
is going to look like around MAC-Z.

1114
01:02:11,227 --> 01:02:14,480
We're definitely hurting stuntman-wise.

1115
01:02:14,981 --> 01:02:16,607
- It is massive. It's a big scene.
- Yeah.

1116
01:02:16,691 --> 01:02:20,737
I don't know if we can...
If I can even get that many people here.

1117
01:02:20,820 --> 01:02:26,701
{\an8}There's like 75 army extras
and 50 stunt people... Yeah. Crazy.

1118
01:02:27,577 --> 01:02:30,079
Is this the most expensive thing
we've ever done?

1119
01:02:34,417 --> 01:02:36,043
Action, whip!

1120
01:02:39,255 --> 01:02:42,133
Jump, ready, and go!

1121
01:02:42,216 --> 01:02:44,677
There's all those guys
that come from like nowhere.

1122
01:02:44,761 --> 01:02:46,429
It just looks like they're waiting.

1123
01:02:46,512 --> 01:02:48,389
We want to give them
something to run past.

1124
01:02:48,473 --> 01:02:50,683
I would say it could...
Maybe it's the 5 ton?

1125
01:02:53,186 --> 01:02:58,274
Are we trying to engage special effects
at all for any of this rehearsal work?

1126
01:02:58,357 --> 01:02:59,776
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

1127
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,574
{\an8}We are trying to get up to
maybe a version of a dress rehearsal.

1128
01:03:06,657 --> 01:03:10,411
Put all of the elements in place.
So that we're as rehearsed as possible

1129
01:03:10,495 --> 01:03:13,164
for when the main unit
comes in on the next two weeks.

1130
01:03:13,247 --> 01:03:15,708
Start clearing back. Thank you.
We'll get a rehearsal.

1131
01:03:15,792 --> 01:03:16,876
- Is it heavy?
- It's heavy.

1132
01:03:16,959 --> 01:03:18,503
- It's really sweet.
- Oh my God!

1133
01:03:21,547 --> 01:03:23,049
Stand down.

1134
01:03:25,301 --> 01:03:26,427
That's good.

1135
01:03:28,971 --> 01:03:30,473
How are you, man? You good?

1136
01:03:30,556 --> 01:03:33,851
Can you see the children?

1137
01:03:37,396 --> 01:03:39,148
- Looking good.
- Yeah.

1138
01:03:39,816 --> 01:03:44,529
I feel like we could almost spread
that one that way a little further.

1139
01:03:44,612 --> 01:03:45,446
- Okay.
- You know?

1140
01:03:52,411 --> 01:03:54,539
"Chapter Four: Sorcerer."

1141
01:03:55,540 --> 01:03:59,210
A steel trench plate suddenly jerks
upward with a thunderous clang.

1142
01:03:59,293 --> 01:04:00,795
Soldiers ready their rifles.

1143
01:04:02,380 --> 01:04:04,757
Rifles out. On your marks, please!

1144
01:04:06,050 --> 01:04:08,928
We've never done anything so complex,

1145
01:04:09,011 --> 01:04:12,431
and we've never involved
so many people in a single sequence.

1146
01:04:12,515 --> 01:04:14,016
We wanted it to be spectacular

1147
01:04:14,100 --> 01:04:18,729
but I think we underestimated
how complicated it was going to be.

1148
01:04:18,813 --> 01:04:21,065
Our last Demo, when it arrives here,

1149
01:04:21,148 --> 01:04:23,109
it jumps out of there
and squishes a guard.

1150
01:04:23,192 --> 01:04:25,611
When that guy squishes,
you guys take off this way.

1151
01:04:25,695 --> 01:04:27,280
There's a Demo there, there.

1152
01:04:27,363 --> 01:04:29,490
And when this Demo
takes out all these guys,

1153
01:04:29,574 --> 01:04:30,825
you guys have stopped here.

1154
01:04:30,908 --> 01:04:34,078
Ramirez moves past.
That's when you're gonna be like, "Okay."

1155
01:04:34,161 --> 01:04:36,455
- You're trying to find a place to get out.
- Right.

1156
01:04:36,539 --> 01:04:38,499
- Hey, how's it going?
- Hey.

1157
01:04:38,583 --> 01:04:41,669
- Sorry, we're shaping the beginning.
- No, great. Great.

1158
01:04:41,752 --> 01:04:46,048
- But we do need you to help Noah...
- No, I know. There... I mean...

1159
01:04:46,132 --> 01:04:48,509
Set up team, sound here,
right, on your marks.

1160
01:04:48,593 --> 01:04:50,386
First team's watching. Right over here.

1161
01:04:50,469 --> 01:04:51,888
Rehearsing!

1162
01:04:52,597 --> 01:04:56,017
Watch, guys. Giancarlo, Alyssa,
watch your doubles.

1163
01:04:58,227 --> 01:05:01,188
Jump! Ready, and jump!

1164
01:05:01,272 --> 01:05:02,273
Watch out!

1165
01:05:02,815 --> 01:05:04,483
It's such an ambitious sequence.

1166
01:05:04,567 --> 01:05:10,156
It's five one-take shots
made to look like one long take.

1167
01:05:10,239 --> 01:05:12,450
You back out, and go, guys.

1168
01:05:12,533 --> 01:05:16,454
I think a oner is
incredibly captivating for audiences.

1169
01:05:16,537 --> 01:05:19,749
It builds tension because you're
with the characters the whole time.

1170
01:05:19,832 --> 01:05:21,959
There's no coverage,
no cutting to anything.

1171
01:05:22,043 --> 01:05:24,837
You're watching it all play out
in front of your eyes.

1172
01:05:24,921 --> 01:05:26,339
...be in this area, step away.

1173
01:05:26,422 --> 01:05:28,382
We're gonna be doing
a full first team rehearsal.

1174
01:05:28,466 --> 01:05:30,760
Please go away
if you don't need to be here.

1175
01:05:30,843 --> 01:05:32,803
There's enough people here as it is.

1176
01:05:32,887 --> 01:05:35,765
Ready, and Justin.

1177
01:05:36,682 --> 01:05:37,642
Jump!

1178
01:05:38,601 --> 01:05:41,270
I'm debating about this line,

1179
01:05:41,354 --> 01:05:45,149
and whether... you kind of
skipped over it in the pre-vis

1180
01:05:45,232 --> 01:05:47,026
but we're not married to the pre-vis

1181
01:05:47,109 --> 01:05:50,112
because I feel like you've got
to have a moment with the kids.

1182
01:05:50,196 --> 01:05:53,282
I want to try it the way we thought
about it, which is like right here.

1183
01:05:53,366 --> 01:05:54,617
Whip!

1184
01:05:54,700 --> 01:05:57,495
Stay close, keep your eyes down. Got it?

1185
01:05:57,578 --> 01:06:00,331
- Demo!
- Ready. Three, two, one, go!

1186
01:06:01,248 --> 01:06:02,375
Duck!

1187
01:06:03,417 --> 01:06:07,171
My character has to lead these kids
to hopefully not die, which is fun.

1188
01:06:07,922 --> 01:06:09,840
Mike kind of gets to be a leader.

1189
01:06:09,924 --> 01:06:12,218
It's been a long time
since we've seen that.

1190
01:06:13,302 --> 01:06:15,429
Listen to me! Keep your eyes on me!

1191
01:06:17,056 --> 01:06:18,182
Good impression.

1192
01:06:18,265 --> 01:06:20,559
Thank you. I should have been an actor.

1193
01:06:20,643 --> 01:06:22,311
Just be proud of what you are.

1194
01:06:22,395 --> 01:06:24,355
I'm... Thank you.

1195
01:06:24,855 --> 01:06:26,941
Ready, and action!

1196
01:06:31,570 --> 01:06:35,241
We're gonna get out of here, okay?
Stay close, keep your eyes on me. Got it?

1197
01:06:35,324 --> 01:06:38,035
- Demo!
- Three, two, one, go!

1198
01:06:38,577 --> 01:06:40,079
- Get down!
- Watch out!

1199
01:06:40,162 --> 01:06:42,790
It's feeling a little dead over there.

1200
01:06:43,708 --> 01:06:44,959
Whoops.

1201
01:06:45,042 --> 01:06:45,960
Cut, cut.

1202
01:06:46,043 --> 01:06:49,422
Did anyone... Did they talk to you
about maybe trying to look back?

1203
01:06:49,505 --> 01:06:50,381
Yep.

1204
01:06:50,464 --> 01:06:51,674
Monsters everywhere, gunfire,

1205
01:06:51,757 --> 01:06:54,677
you're not going to be hearing it,
but imagine bam, bam, everywhere.

1206
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:55,761
{\an8}Chaos.

1207
01:06:55,845 --> 01:06:57,888
{\an8}Soldiers shouting, screaming, all of that.

1208
01:06:57,972 --> 01:06:59,348
{\an8}- I gotcha.
- Okay.

1209
01:07:00,182 --> 01:07:01,559
You're in a war zone.

1210
01:07:01,642 --> 01:07:04,353
What's that guy doing
that's just walking around?

1211
01:07:04,437 --> 01:07:06,689
They're again watching a Demo
that we can't see.

1212
01:07:08,357 --> 01:07:12,278
Oh, God. I mean, it's better.
What do you guys think?

1213
01:07:12,778 --> 01:07:15,031
I think it could be better.

1214
01:07:16,282 --> 01:07:18,409
Back it up to this dead spot here.

1215
01:07:18,492 --> 01:07:20,995
I feel like you have to
just like paint in people.

1216
01:07:22,038 --> 01:07:23,664
Like, it's just so empty.

1217
01:07:23,748 --> 01:07:25,958
There's a Demogorgon right there too.

1218
01:07:27,585 --> 01:07:30,713
And then it would go there. There?

1219
01:07:30,796 --> 01:07:32,715
Then I say ready and then just stay here.

1220
01:07:32,798 --> 01:07:34,925
Stay up
and then I'm gonna get behind you here.

1221
01:07:35,009 --> 01:07:37,303
Ready, and action!

1222
01:07:37,386 --> 01:07:40,347
- Three, two, one...
- And action!

1223
01:07:41,223 --> 01:07:42,433
Stop.

1224
01:07:42,516 --> 01:07:43,517
Resetting!

1225
01:07:43,601 --> 01:07:44,977
- Hey, Hiro.
- Yes, sir.

1226
01:07:45,061 --> 01:07:47,563
The second pull was late.

1227
01:07:47,646 --> 01:07:49,315
- I'll go earlier.
- Cool, thank you.

1228
01:07:49,398 --> 01:07:50,232
You got it.

1229
01:07:50,316 --> 01:07:51,859
Ready, and action!

1230
01:07:51,942 --> 01:07:53,861
- Three, two, one, go!
- What, no, hey, hey!

1231
01:07:53,944 --> 01:07:55,279
Action.

1232
01:07:56,238 --> 01:07:58,616
- Cut, cut, cut.
- Cut!

1233
01:07:59,283 --> 01:08:00,367
Rolling, rolling.

1234
01:08:00,451 --> 01:08:01,619
Oh, take eight.

1235
01:08:01,702 --> 01:08:04,747
Dude, this can't take
longer than last night.

1236
01:08:04,830 --> 01:08:06,999
- Tudor's going to give an action.
- Yes.

1237
01:08:07,083 --> 01:08:09,376
I'm going to give a three, two, one, go.

1238
01:08:09,460 --> 01:08:11,712
I need you to react,
but then also be fast.

1239
01:08:13,464 --> 01:08:15,466
All right, here we go, camera's going up.

1240
01:08:15,549 --> 01:08:18,469
- We figured out other problems...
- Yeah. Yeah.

1241
01:08:18,552 --> 01:08:22,473
I think we've solved every problem
that we've created. Here we go, guys.

1242
01:08:26,060 --> 01:08:29,688
Okay. Radio Shack. If we move
quick, I think we can get there.

1243
01:08:29,772 --> 01:08:32,608
Get into the tunnels
and get the hell out of here. Okay?

1244
01:08:32,691 --> 01:08:36,028
I don't know if we had the same
intensity as that other take. Eight.

1245
01:08:37,738 --> 01:08:39,323
Like something felt...

1246
01:08:39,406 --> 01:08:42,409
Alive? Or are we getting bored with it?

1247
01:08:42,493 --> 01:08:44,036
Is this ten or whatever?

1248
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:45,204
This is eight.

1249
01:08:45,287 --> 01:08:47,289
- This is still eight.
- This is eight.

1250
01:08:47,373 --> 01:08:50,417
- Stop!
- I think we live with that bump.

1251
01:08:50,918 --> 01:08:53,045
- And we smooth it out.
- Yeah.

1252
01:08:53,129 --> 01:08:54,880
- You can barely tell.
- Okay.

1253
01:08:55,381 --> 01:08:57,800
- You guys think eight's the best?
- Eight's the best.

1254
01:08:57,883 --> 01:09:00,636
I think we all thought eight was
the best right when we did it.

1255
01:09:00,719 --> 01:09:03,097
It's one of those sequences
that you look at on paper,

1256
01:09:03,180 --> 01:09:06,016
and you're like, "Oh no,
this is gonna be impossible."

1257
01:09:06,100 --> 01:09:07,601
But we totally did it.

1258
01:09:12,106 --> 01:09:16,068
I feel like half our job right now is
to be college minors in meteorology.

1259
01:09:17,486 --> 01:09:19,655
{\an8}- Maybe we'll get lucky.
- Mm-hmm.

1260
01:09:20,197 --> 01:09:22,449
- Yeah, it's unavoidable.
- Yeah.

1261
01:09:22,950 --> 01:09:26,662
So you might as well now 'cause these guys
have to walk through. All right.

1262
01:09:27,288 --> 01:09:30,583
Hey, Mike, let's start getting
them up to 14-15, all right?

1263
01:09:30,666 --> 01:09:31,917
All right, my stunt guys.

1264
01:09:32,001 --> 01:09:35,129
We're going to start taking everybody
up to the holding area at 14-15.

1265
01:09:54,607 --> 01:09:55,649
No.

1266
01:09:58,861 --> 01:10:00,154
This weather is bananas.

1267
01:10:00,237 --> 01:10:02,198
It is absolutely bananas.

1268
01:10:02,281 --> 01:10:05,868
The last nine out of ten nights
there's been lightning.

1269
01:10:05,951 --> 01:10:09,622
Yeah. I think Wednesday was
the only day we did not have weather.

1270
01:10:09,705 --> 01:10:10,581
Weather, yeah.

1271
01:10:28,891 --> 01:10:30,893
And so however you want to lift them...

1272
01:10:32,186 --> 01:10:33,854
With one hand.

1273
01:10:33,938 --> 01:10:35,439
And action.

1274
01:10:38,275 --> 01:10:41,237
And three, two, one, go.

1275
01:10:41,820 --> 01:10:42,905
And drop.

1276
01:10:44,823 --> 01:10:46,116
Yeah. Oh, yeah.

1277
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,244
All right, cut. Not bad.

1278
01:10:50,704 --> 01:10:54,250
Yeah, so it's like laying into the Demo.
You see him.

1279
01:10:55,167 --> 01:10:57,920
And then you start
to make your move over there.

1280
01:11:01,757 --> 01:11:03,008
Whoa!

1281
01:11:05,094 --> 01:11:06,095
Oh, shit.

1282
01:11:07,346 --> 01:11:09,139
The adrenaline just keeps going.

1283
01:11:09,223 --> 01:11:12,810
Because we're here every single night
doing all this cool shit.

1284
01:11:12,893 --> 01:11:16,230
- And it's just one right after the other.
- Big action sequences. Yeah.

1285
01:11:16,313 --> 01:11:18,232
There's no time to come down off of it.

1286
01:11:20,985 --> 01:11:24,280
All right. Flames are coming
up, guys. We're very close now. Thank you.

1287
01:11:24,363 --> 01:11:26,782
Ready, and action.

1288
01:11:38,335 --> 01:11:39,378
Okay, cut.

1289
01:11:39,962 --> 01:11:41,672
- Cut it. Save it.
- Cut.

1290
01:11:45,301 --> 01:11:48,762
There's so many things this year
that I've just never done before,

1291
01:11:48,846 --> 01:11:50,639
as an actor or in this role.

1292
01:11:51,974 --> 01:11:54,768
Will has always been this weakling,

1293
01:11:54,852 --> 01:11:59,023
and the one who's made fun of,
and he's always felt different.

1294
01:11:59,106 --> 01:12:03,736
And then this season,
he's able to fight this monster,

1295
01:12:03,819 --> 01:12:08,198
but also his internal demons with
his own struggles and his own sexuality.

1296
01:12:08,699 --> 01:12:11,201
He kind of becomes a superhero.

1297
01:12:15,622 --> 01:12:17,833
I felt closer to Vecna this season.

1298
01:12:18,584 --> 01:12:20,252
Knowing more,

1299
01:12:20,961 --> 01:12:25,299
so being able to... ask for it

1300
01:12:25,382 --> 01:12:32,056
and access it has been easier
and more powerful.

1301
01:12:38,020 --> 01:12:39,605
I described it to Noah.

1302
01:12:39,688 --> 01:12:44,651
We can have these beautiful moments
where we step outside of ourselves.

1303
01:12:45,736 --> 01:12:48,030
I'm not pushing. I'm not trying.

1304
01:12:48,864 --> 01:12:51,283
I'm not... forcing it.

1305
01:12:52,326 --> 01:12:56,080
And you can feel
you've become this vessel.

1306
01:13:01,460 --> 01:13:02,711
After all these years,

1307
01:13:02,795 --> 01:13:06,799
finally he's getting all these moments
that he's overcoming.

1308
01:13:07,508 --> 01:13:12,930
It's out of this love for these people
that he's able to find this power.

1309
01:13:13,013 --> 01:13:17,226
I don't know. I just think it's really
cool how they... how they write it.

1310
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:21,897
Vecna lowers his hand and Will
drops, landing on his hands and knees.

1311
01:13:21,980 --> 01:13:24,858
As Will gasps for breath,
heaving and pale with shock,

1312
01:13:24,942 --> 01:13:26,026
Vecna walks away.

1313
01:13:26,110 --> 01:13:29,905
He steps through the gate
and vanishes back into the Upside Down.

1314
01:13:31,532 --> 01:13:33,992
Will slowly raises his arms,

1315
01:13:34,076 --> 01:13:37,204
and the Demogorgons
simultaneously lift off the ground.

1316
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:39,498
He's doing this.

1317
01:13:40,249 --> 01:13:42,668
Mike, Lucas and Robin watch transfixed

1318
01:13:42,751 --> 01:13:45,879
as the monsters are violently killed
by a powerful force.

1319
01:13:47,256 --> 01:13:50,467
Will drops to his knees
in the middle of the burning battlefield.

1320
01:13:51,093 --> 01:13:52,511
His eyes are back to normal,

1321
01:13:52,594 --> 01:13:55,389
only they now reveal
a new sense of calm and strength.

1322
01:13:56,306 --> 01:13:59,393
He is now in control. He is a sorcerer.

1323
01:14:12,156 --> 01:14:13,740
That has been shot.

1324
01:14:15,701 --> 01:14:17,161
That is done.

1325
01:14:23,208 --> 01:14:28,380
- We are at day 118, I believe.
- Seventeen.

1326
01:14:28,464 --> 01:14:32,593
A hundred and seventeen.
And that puts us halfway through.

1327
01:14:33,802 --> 01:14:36,513
So we only have like six months to go.

1328
01:14:37,556 --> 01:14:38,849
{\an8}Look at all these Post-its.

1329
01:14:41,018 --> 01:14:44,730
We're going to try to get the entire
remainder of this season in our heads

1330
01:14:44,813 --> 01:14:46,106
and understand it.

1331
01:14:47,024 --> 01:14:48,692
But do you have the script?

1332
01:14:49,443 --> 01:14:51,487
Uh, no. We don't.

1333
01:14:52,821 --> 01:14:54,656
Okay, I'll call it out.

1334
01:14:54,740 --> 01:14:57,701
- Episode six, church cemetery.
- Church cemetery.

1335
01:14:57,784 --> 01:15:01,497
Interior Hopper's cabin, six and seven.

1336
01:15:01,580 --> 01:15:04,333
Interior Hawkins Library.

1337
01:15:04,416 --> 01:15:06,001
Blue screen, Holly falls.

1338
01:15:06,084 --> 01:15:08,295
Seven, we're in the Creel house and six...

1339
01:15:08,378 --> 01:15:12,633
Interior Squawk, seven
and interior cave, six.

1340
01:15:12,716 --> 01:15:15,886
Wednesday is shooting eight. Cave.

1341
01:15:15,969 --> 01:15:18,972
- Episode eight is red.
- It's exciting. Episode eight.

1342
01:15:19,056 --> 01:15:22,518
Red for red alert.

1343
01:15:27,397 --> 01:15:28,982
{\an8}Today's a very interesting day.

1344
01:15:29,066 --> 01:15:32,819
{\an8}We are shooting episode eight,
which isn't completely written yet.

1345
01:15:32,903 --> 01:15:34,238
{\an8}Spoiler alert.

1346
01:15:34,321 --> 01:15:36,740
{\an8}So we don't even fully know
what's going on.

1347
01:15:37,741 --> 01:15:41,245
Everyone on set is walking around
with red script pages.

1348
01:15:42,287 --> 01:15:44,540
You don't want to jump out
of story order too much

1349
01:15:44,623 --> 01:15:47,125
because actors will get confused
as to where they are.

1350
01:15:47,209 --> 01:15:50,087
They haven't experienced
certain events or had certain emotions.

1351
01:15:50,170 --> 01:15:56,301
But the elements of summertime look
from episode eight need to be shot now.

1352
01:15:56,385 --> 01:15:58,512
I've never read eight through.

1353
01:15:58,595 --> 01:16:00,264
And we're just shooting it.

1354
01:16:01,390 --> 01:16:03,600
I've never done anything like this before.

1355
01:16:08,063 --> 01:16:10,566
This is so weird jumping to eight.

1356
01:16:10,649 --> 01:16:12,693
- Yeah.
- Don't love it.

1357
01:16:12,776 --> 01:16:16,905
- Don't love it, I gotta... be honest.
- Have to do what you gotta do.

1358
01:16:22,077 --> 01:16:24,621
Here we go. Ready, and action.

1359
01:16:30,252 --> 01:16:32,754
Come on, we need to go. Come on.

1360
01:16:33,672 --> 01:16:35,591
- Cut.
- Cut.

1361
01:16:35,674 --> 01:16:38,552
- Again. Here we go.
- Okay, picture's up.

1362
01:16:38,635 --> 01:16:39,803
Let's roll please.

1363
01:16:39,886 --> 01:16:41,513
- Rolling.
- Rolling.

1364
01:16:50,606 --> 01:16:51,815
You have to cock it, so.

1365
01:16:52,316 --> 01:16:54,192
No, not that close.

1366
01:16:57,738 --> 01:16:58,947
Wait, The Abyss is...

1367
01:16:59,489 --> 01:17:03,660
Oh sorry, The Abyss is like...
Hilary, do you have that drawing?

1368
01:17:03,744 --> 01:17:06,705
So that's Hawkins, that's the Upside Down.

1369
01:17:06,788 --> 01:17:08,373
Those are the flesh walls.

1370
01:17:08,457 --> 01:17:09,291
Oh my God.

1371
01:17:09,374 --> 01:17:12,169
And then that's the...
This is The Abyss up here.

1372
01:17:12,252 --> 01:17:14,963
The Abyss is... Hold on, okay. Where--

1373
01:17:15,047 --> 01:17:17,007
- It's like in the sky.
- It's in the sky.

1374
01:17:17,090 --> 01:17:18,800
Is this based on like...

1375
01:17:18,884 --> 01:17:20,886
- Um...
- ...real scientific theory?

1376
01:17:20,969 --> 01:17:22,554
It's all very realistic.

1377
01:17:22,638 --> 01:17:24,222
Like, are you consulting somebody?

1378
01:17:24,306 --> 01:17:25,682
Uh...

1379
01:17:25,766 --> 01:17:28,018
When you guys read eight,
it will make more sense.

1380
01:17:28,101 --> 01:17:30,228
It's gonna probably be 120 pages.

1381
01:17:30,312 --> 01:17:31,563
115 maybe?

1382
01:17:31,647 --> 01:17:33,190
No way, dude.

1383
01:17:33,273 --> 01:17:35,359
Dude, we gotta cut it down.

1384
01:17:41,740 --> 01:17:44,826
We were getting hammered constantly

1385
01:17:44,910 --> 01:17:48,830
by production and by Netflix
for episode eight.

1386
01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:52,209
It was the most difficult
writing circumstances

1387
01:17:52,292 --> 01:17:54,002
we've ever found ourselves in.

1388
01:17:54,086 --> 01:17:58,048
Not just because there was the pressure of
we had to make sure the script was good,

1389
01:17:58,131 --> 01:18:00,967
but there's never been
so much noise at the same time.

1390
01:18:02,302 --> 01:18:05,764
It was the longest time we've ever spent
with the writers on a single episode,

1391
01:18:05,847 --> 01:18:07,474
just breaking it down beat by beat,

1392
01:18:07,557 --> 01:18:09,685
pushing that thing
to get as good as it could.

1393
01:18:11,061 --> 01:18:13,689
Just being honest and truthful
with the show

1394
01:18:13,772 --> 01:18:15,565
has always worked out for us.

1395
01:18:22,739 --> 01:18:25,784
"Chapter Six: Escape from Camazotz."

1396
01:18:25,867 --> 01:18:28,870
We hard cut to Max's head
jostling up and down.

1397
01:18:28,954 --> 01:18:31,581
Lucas is carrying her
as he runs down the hallway.

1398
01:18:31,665 --> 01:18:33,500
Boombox hangs over his shoulder.

1399
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:37,921
I feel for you.
That's got to be gnarly, gnarly...

1400
01:18:38,004 --> 01:18:41,299
We're gonna start the day
with a big, complicated oner.

1401
01:18:41,383 --> 01:18:43,343
- If you get tired--
- Oh, I'll let you know.

1402
01:18:43,427 --> 01:18:44,678
Rolling, rolling.

1403
01:18:44,761 --> 01:18:47,848
Set and... elevator.

1404
01:18:50,267 --> 01:18:52,561
Very often when you are directing,

1405
01:18:52,644 --> 01:18:56,898
your job is to make the thing
better than the script.

1406
01:18:57,399 --> 01:18:58,859
- Let's go!
- Let's go!

1407
01:18:58,942 --> 01:19:01,820
But these scripts, from beginning to end,

1408
01:19:01,903 --> 01:19:04,406
from 2014 to now,

1409
01:19:04,489 --> 01:19:11,329
they've always been so ridiculously good,
that my job is to do justice to them.

1410
01:19:11,413 --> 01:19:12,998
- Cut!
- Cut, cut, cut.

1411
01:19:13,081 --> 01:19:15,041
Caleb's a champ.

1412
01:19:15,625 --> 01:19:16,960
This ain't easy.

1413
01:19:18,211 --> 01:19:19,379
Look at that, boom.

1414
01:19:20,172 --> 01:19:21,506
Great, great.

1415
01:19:22,090 --> 01:19:24,301
- How many takes... This is like six?
- Six.

1416
01:19:24,384 --> 01:19:26,136
- Yeah.
- Yeah, dude.

1417
01:19:26,219 --> 01:19:28,054
- No, we're good.
- This is six, guys.

1418
01:19:28,138 --> 01:19:31,933
I know exactly how to cut it. We're good.
Good job, everybody. Good job.

1419
01:19:34,936 --> 01:19:37,063
Every show has a specific rhythm.

1420
01:19:37,147 --> 01:19:39,065
- It's like a frequency.
- Green is Caleb.

1421
01:19:39,149 --> 01:19:42,402
In the scene, you don't really know
the rhythm until you do it.

1422
01:19:42,486 --> 01:19:45,113
It's the chemistry that
the actors kind of bring out of it.

1423
01:19:45,197 --> 01:19:47,491
Even the directors,
how they direct you into

1424
01:19:47,574 --> 01:19:51,495
this is how it goes, this is what it is,
and then the actors create the rhythm.

1425
01:19:52,370 --> 01:19:55,248
- We wanna try and get this up front.
- Yeah.

1426
01:19:55,332 --> 01:19:57,250
And then let's do the explosion.

1427
01:19:59,586 --> 01:20:02,130
- Make sure you label them.
- I'm going to. Yes, sir.

1428
01:20:02,214 --> 01:20:06,343
Zulu, is it too late to ask
if the fourth window could break?

1429
01:20:08,428 --> 01:20:10,555
{\an8}- It's never too late.
- Copy.

1430
01:20:10,639 --> 01:20:12,057
{\an8}Let me do that.

1431
01:20:13,225 --> 01:20:14,476
I have a question.

1432
01:20:14,559 --> 01:20:17,395
{\an8}It hasn't been talked about much
in the scenes we've been in together.

1433
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:19,856
{\an8}- No one knows that we're dating.
- Yeah.

1434
01:20:19,940 --> 01:20:21,775
{\an8}- Including Caleb.
- Yeah.

1435
01:20:21,858 --> 01:20:23,151
{\an8}Can I do like a...

1436
01:20:23,235 --> 01:20:27,739
{\an8}I would like to play this scene
in a whisper.

1437
01:20:27,823 --> 01:20:30,200
- Yeah.
- I would like to do this.

1438
01:20:30,283 --> 01:20:31,868
- Yeah. Fine. Good.
- Is that okay?

1439
01:20:31,952 --> 01:20:34,955
Yeah. It says you take
one another's hand, right?

1440
01:20:35,038 --> 01:20:35,997
- We can.
- Yeah.

1441
01:20:36,081 --> 01:20:39,125
{\an8}- That's what... It would be here.
- Great.

1442
01:20:40,043 --> 01:20:42,170
{\an8}- Okay, good. Let's do that.
- Cool.

1443
01:20:42,254 --> 01:20:46,466
Okay, gang, I think it's gonna be messy,
but let's shoot it.

1444
01:20:46,550 --> 01:20:48,844
Okay, last looks now, please. Last looks.

1445
01:20:48,927 --> 01:20:50,345
I'm gonna pull the marks.

1446
01:20:50,428 --> 01:20:53,348
Three, two, one, go!

1447
01:20:57,811 --> 01:20:59,813
I think once they're done
with those windows,

1448
01:20:59,896 --> 01:21:02,649
I'll throw more debris
over the top of the dryer

1449
01:21:02,732 --> 01:21:04,568
so that can get stuff back there.

1450
01:21:04,651 --> 01:21:07,571
I think you can go, Stephanie... Sorry.
...wider here

1451
01:21:07,654 --> 01:21:11,324
so that maybe we can get some
of that blood into this lighter area even.

1452
01:21:11,408 --> 01:21:14,828
- Okay.
- Even there. On both sides.

1453
01:21:19,124 --> 01:21:21,167
It was just going to be
an exploding dryer,

1454
01:21:21,251 --> 01:21:23,670
but as is the nature of this show,
everyone was like,

1455
01:21:23,753 --> 01:21:28,592
"If we're already blowing up the dryer,
we should probably blow up these windows."

1456
01:21:28,675 --> 01:21:30,927
I don't think it's often
that you end up on a show

1457
01:21:31,011 --> 01:21:36,308
where there's that sort of flexibility
and a will to that fantasticness.

1458
01:21:57,495 --> 01:21:58,663
Last one.

1459
01:22:05,253 --> 01:22:06,421
Hey, guys.

1460
01:22:07,213 --> 01:22:08,214
Smile.

1461
01:22:11,509 --> 01:22:12,510
It's bittersweet?

1462
01:22:12,594 --> 01:22:13,553
Bittersweet.

1463
01:22:13,637 --> 01:22:17,432
This has been our life for six weeks
and now it's over.

1464
01:22:18,516 --> 01:22:20,393
On to the next phase.

1465
01:22:24,022 --> 01:22:26,775
Hey, Adam,
over the top of the rail right behind you.

1466
01:22:26,858 --> 01:22:28,944
Turn around.

1467
01:22:34,074 --> 01:22:38,036
Nancy, does "shit"
feel in character or "stuff"?

1468
01:22:38,119 --> 01:22:41,581
I feel like I've never heard her swear.
But maybe I'm wrong.

1469
01:22:41,665 --> 01:22:43,917
Yeah, but like when she swears,
she swears.

1470
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:47,921
"Right. Is it me
or is this stuff getting thicker?" Good.

1471
01:22:49,547 --> 01:22:55,178
- Ready! And feel it! Feel it!
- Three, two, one, go.

1472
01:22:58,723 --> 01:23:00,266
Go, go! Go!

1473
01:23:02,727 --> 01:23:03,645
Go!

1474
01:23:04,479 --> 01:23:05,689
It's not just you!

1475
01:23:12,946 --> 01:23:14,990
- Someone!
- Help!

1476
01:23:15,824 --> 01:23:17,033
- Help!
- Help!

1477
01:23:17,117 --> 01:23:18,284
Cut.

1478
01:23:18,368 --> 01:23:19,327
This goo?

1479
01:23:20,245 --> 01:23:22,080
Oh my God, honestly...

1480
01:23:22,664 --> 01:23:24,290
It's not sludgy enough.

1481
01:23:24,374 --> 01:23:26,918
Oh yeah, it looks kind of thin.

1482
01:23:27,002 --> 01:23:29,796
So literally,
they're faking it really well.

1483
01:23:31,965 --> 01:23:35,260
We're going to have to rely on VFX
more than I wanted to.

1484
01:23:35,343 --> 01:23:37,929
What's really heartbreaking

1485
01:23:38,013 --> 01:23:43,810
is that we all saw tests for months
that looked more like goo.

1486
01:23:43,893 --> 01:23:46,146
It looks just like water.

1487
01:23:46,646 --> 01:23:48,440
That's not even close to right.

1488
01:23:49,399 --> 01:23:51,943
The thing about directing,
the thing about leadership,

1489
01:23:52,027 --> 01:23:55,989
is you can prepare rigorously, as I do.

1490
01:23:56,072 --> 01:24:00,702
But when you're in a moment,
and it's just not working out,

1491
01:24:00,785 --> 01:24:02,871
you can't have a tantrum.

1492
01:24:02,954 --> 01:24:04,289
You can't give up.

1493
01:24:04,372 --> 01:24:05,832
You can't shut down.

1494
01:24:05,915 --> 01:24:07,625
We have to shoot today.

1495
01:24:07,709 --> 01:24:10,336
And I got to get the story right.

1496
01:24:10,420 --> 01:24:13,965
I know that all that matters
is what's ultimately in the cut,

1497
01:24:14,049 --> 01:24:15,925
not what's happening here on set.

1498
01:24:16,009 --> 01:24:21,222
So I immediately go into Jedi-level,
rigorous problem-solving mode.

1499
01:24:21,306 --> 01:24:22,974
Okay, I'm going to shoot this angle.

1500
01:24:23,058 --> 01:24:25,435
I'm gonna hold this
until I can solve this problem.

1501
01:24:25,518 --> 01:24:28,354
Then if I put them together
and that's all the audience sees,

1502
01:24:28,438 --> 01:24:30,940
the audience will never know
that we failed today.

1503
01:24:31,024 --> 01:24:33,359
Your shots are awesome, though.

1504
01:24:33,443 --> 01:24:36,654
Yeah, I'm bummed. There's no...

1505
01:24:36,738 --> 01:24:39,949
You're where we were at
yesterday at 9:00 a.m.

1506
01:24:42,869 --> 01:24:45,497
- Check out my stress score.
- This is just today?

1507
01:24:45,580 --> 01:24:47,248
I've been stressed for 3.5 hours.

1508
01:24:47,332 --> 01:24:50,376
{\an8}Why have you been spiking so hard?

1509
01:24:50,460 --> 01:24:53,671
{\an8}- You were relaxed this morning at 7:00--
- No, that's asleep.

1510
01:24:53,755 --> 01:24:56,549
That's... I was stressed
as soon as I woke up.

1511
01:25:01,096 --> 01:25:05,350
Yo, let's read the last episode
of <i>Stranger Things,</i> shall we?

1512
01:25:07,644 --> 01:25:09,521
Come on, everybody. Come on.

1513
01:25:13,817 --> 01:25:16,903
We had a year
of being on the edge of our seats.

1514
01:25:17,570 --> 01:25:18,863
It was torture.

1515
01:25:21,950 --> 01:25:26,412
Reading that episode, it signifies
an official goodbye to our childhood.

1516
01:25:28,498 --> 01:25:30,083
Brett, no cheating.

1517
01:25:30,166 --> 01:25:31,126
- Huh?
- No cheating.

1518
01:25:31,209 --> 01:25:33,628
- No cheating? We can't cheat?
- Cold read?

1519
01:25:33,711 --> 01:25:37,257
Yeah. I think we're just gonna, um...

1520
01:25:38,299 --> 01:25:39,467
launch into it.

1521
01:25:39,551 --> 01:25:40,969
We finished on Wednesday.

1522
01:25:41,052 --> 01:25:42,428
This is fresh. Hot off the presses.

1523
01:25:42,512 --> 01:25:43,471
Speech!

1524
01:25:43,555 --> 01:25:45,098
- Speech?
- Yeah!

1525
01:25:45,181 --> 01:25:49,185
I know. We thought about it.
I was like, I just feel like, uh...

1526
01:25:49,269 --> 01:25:52,730
everything we want to say
about the experience and the show,

1527
01:25:52,814 --> 01:25:55,150
and the characters,
and everything is in the script.

1528
01:25:55,775 --> 01:25:59,237
Ross and I are not as eloquent speaking
as we are at writing.

1529
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:01,990
So I think we'd just rather read it.

1530
01:26:03,116 --> 01:26:06,911
"Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up."
This is it. Okay.

1531
01:26:08,037 --> 01:26:11,583
We're outside the MAC-Z. Starry night.
Beneath it, the rift gate.

1532
01:26:11,666 --> 01:26:15,753
The membrane is still torn from
when the Big Buy truck crashed through it.

1533
01:26:15,837 --> 01:26:18,882
As the massive planet continues
its relentless descent

1534
01:26:18,965 --> 01:26:21,176
on a collision course with Hawkins,

1535
01:26:21,259 --> 01:26:24,262
we go one last time to titles.

1536
01:26:24,804 --> 01:26:27,056
And then...

1537
01:26:27,140 --> 01:26:30,852
Steve gasps. He dangles midair,
swaying, seemingly held by nothing.

1538
01:26:30,935 --> 01:26:32,270
No!

1539
01:26:32,353 --> 01:26:34,397
But then our camera rises to reveal

1540
01:26:34,480 --> 01:26:37,483
a strong hand gripping tight to his wrist.
It's Jonathan.

1541
01:26:37,567 --> 01:26:38,693
He's caught him.

1542
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:42,989
Henry snaps to find Eleven
stepping into the living room.

1543
01:26:43,072 --> 01:26:45,617
A tense moment here
as Henry takes in his sister

1544
01:26:45,700 --> 01:26:47,619
for the first time in a very long time.

1545
01:26:47,702 --> 01:26:49,621
His voice quivers with anger.

1546
01:26:50,788 --> 01:26:52,207
<i>Where are they?</i>

1547
01:26:53,291 --> 01:26:55,084
With Max. Safe.

1548
01:26:55,168 --> 01:26:58,171
Vecna suddenly appears behind
Hopper, faintly visible in the thick mist.

1549
01:26:58,254 --> 01:27:01,090
Hopper, sensing him,
whirls and opens fire. Bang, bang, bang.

1550
01:27:01,174 --> 01:27:03,551
But... his bullets have not struck Vecna.

1551
01:27:03,635 --> 01:27:05,595
They've pierced the door
of the isolation tank.

1552
01:27:05,678 --> 01:27:07,180
Water streams from the bullet holes.

1553
01:27:07,263 --> 01:27:08,932
He races forward in a panic.

1554
01:27:09,015 --> 01:27:12,435
He throws open the tank to find
Eleven floating in the bloody water.

1555
01:27:12,518 --> 01:27:14,520
- No, no.
- Her body is riddled with bullets.

1556
01:27:14,604 --> 01:27:18,316
- He flips his gun and hammers the glass.
- No, no, no, no. Holy shit.

1557
01:27:18,399 --> 01:27:20,318
I need one of those goddamn guns.

1558
01:27:20,401 --> 01:27:21,778
Nancy considers, sighs.

1559
01:27:21,861 --> 01:27:23,529
She hands Mike a bulky,
Magnum-esque weapon

1560
01:27:23,613 --> 01:27:27,200
along with a bandolier loaded with
red shells. Mike can hardly believe it.

1561
01:27:27,283 --> 01:27:28,660
Holy shit, thanks!

1562
01:27:28,743 --> 01:27:32,038
She nods, continues on her way.
Mike slips on the bandolier.

1563
01:27:32,121 --> 01:27:33,414
Those are flares.

1564
01:27:34,999 --> 01:27:38,002
When you found me in the woods,
I was just a kid.

1565
01:27:38,086 --> 01:27:40,713
I was scared.
I didn't understand this world.

1566
01:27:41,506 --> 01:27:43,424
Didn't understand people.

1567
01:27:43,508 --> 01:27:46,010
But you took me in and you taught me.

1568
01:27:49,305 --> 01:27:53,226
You protected me.
You raised me. You became my dad.

1569
01:27:53,893 --> 01:27:56,396
Don't do this. Please don't do this.

1570
01:27:56,479 --> 01:27:58,398
I need you to help them understand.

1571
01:27:59,565 --> 01:28:03,403
- Help them understand my choice.
- But I don't. I don't understand.

1572
01:28:03,486 --> 01:28:04,696
I love you, Mike.

1573
01:28:04,779 --> 01:28:07,240
Please don't leave me, El, please.

1574
01:28:07,323 --> 01:28:09,659
Through his sobs,
at the top of his lungs, he screams.

1575
01:28:09,742 --> 01:28:10,994
El!

1576
01:28:11,744 --> 01:28:14,372
Lucas wraps his arm around Max's waist.

1577
01:28:14,872 --> 01:28:17,500
Okay, now you're definitely
getting ahead of yourself.

1578
01:28:18,459 --> 01:28:21,004
Can't help it.
You're looking super sexy right now.

1579
01:28:22,505 --> 01:28:24,382
Yeah, and you're looking super dorky.

1580
01:28:24,465 --> 01:28:28,511
A smile, then they kiss and kiss,
as they make out. Oh yeah.

1581
01:28:30,555 --> 01:28:32,056
Forget the damn bedsheet.

1582
01:28:32,140 --> 01:28:34,434
Yeah, the light's too strong.
It needs diffusion.

1583
01:28:34,517 --> 01:28:37,603
This isn't <i>The Godfather.</i>
One more take.

1584
01:28:37,687 --> 01:28:43,776
You get one more take, Jonathan!

1585
01:28:45,737 --> 01:28:48,823
Screw this school. Screw the system.

1586
01:28:48,906 --> 01:28:50,283
Screw conformity.

1587
01:28:50,366 --> 01:28:54,329
Screw everything and everyone trying
to hold us back and tear us apart,

1588
01:28:54,412 --> 01:28:57,415
because this, this is our year.

1589
01:28:57,498 --> 01:29:00,918
He signals the band, and they start
a new tune, "At Last" by Etta James.

1590
01:29:01,002 --> 01:29:04,213
Before Joyce has time to process
what's happening, he's on one knee.

1591
01:29:04,297 --> 01:29:06,382
- Oh, my God.
- Whoa, bro!

1592
01:29:06,466 --> 01:29:08,801
He holds up a modest
but pretty engagement ring.

1593
01:29:08,885 --> 01:29:10,595
- Oh my God!
- Oh, shit.

1594
01:29:10,678 --> 01:29:11,929
Joyce Byers...

1595
01:29:12,972 --> 01:29:14,140
Joyce Byers.

1596
01:29:16,642 --> 01:29:19,228
Will you spend the rest of your life

1597
01:29:19,312 --> 01:29:24,233
with an old, tired,
stubborn, grouchy son of a bitch

1598
01:29:24,317 --> 01:29:27,111
who loves you very, very much?

1599
01:29:27,195 --> 01:29:29,489
Her eyes fill with tears. She nods.

1600
01:29:29,572 --> 01:29:30,948
Yes, yes, I will.

1601
01:29:33,785 --> 01:29:35,536
Hopper stands. He holds out a hand.

1602
01:29:35,620 --> 01:29:38,331
Back at the MAC-Z, as a panicked
Mike and Kay search for Eleven,

1603
01:29:38,414 --> 01:29:40,291
our attention turns to the Radio Shack.

1604
01:29:40,375 --> 01:29:41,793
A spell of invisibility.

1605
01:29:41,876 --> 01:29:46,047
The Radio Shack door opens on its own
as if by a ghost. It's Eleven.

1606
01:29:48,966 --> 01:29:51,469
Everyone's crying now,
but the moment is shattered

1607
01:29:51,552 --> 01:29:54,263
as Karen throws open
the basement door and shouts...

1608
01:29:54,347 --> 01:29:56,599
- Jesus!
- Oh, Karen!

1609
01:29:56,682 --> 01:30:00,728
Guys! What's going on?
Lasagna's getting cold.

1610
01:30:00,812 --> 01:30:03,689
Mike watches Holly and her friends
from the top of the stairs.

1611
01:30:03,773 --> 01:30:06,484
The sound of their banter and laughter
fills the basement.

1612
01:30:06,567 --> 01:30:09,695
They're just like him
and his friends all those years ago.

1613
01:30:09,779 --> 01:30:13,366
A moment of sadness
as Mike remembers back to his childhood.

1614
01:30:13,449 --> 01:30:16,744
Then the sadness fades,
giving way to a smile.

1615
01:30:16,828 --> 01:30:18,121
He walks away

1616
01:30:18,204 --> 01:30:20,415
and closes the basement door.

1617
01:30:20,498 --> 01:30:21,874
End series.

1618
01:30:39,475 --> 01:30:40,393
Cool.

1619
01:30:41,894 --> 01:30:42,854
Thanks.

1620
01:30:43,688 --> 01:30:44,689
Oh, man.

1621
01:30:45,898 --> 01:30:48,234
Now we just have to film it.

1622
01:30:50,361 --> 01:30:54,407
There was something so cathartic
about writing that last scene,

1623
01:30:54,490 --> 01:30:56,117
and it was really hard to do,

1624
01:30:56,200 --> 01:31:00,037
just writing the last lines
that these characters would ever say.

1625
01:31:01,747 --> 01:31:05,293
I mean, I remember more
than anything just writing "end series."

1626
01:31:06,127 --> 01:31:08,713
Writing those two words
having the biggest impact.

1627
01:31:10,631 --> 01:31:14,427
And we're doing it
while filming is happening.

1628
01:31:17,597 --> 01:31:19,682
Why? Oh, no.

1629
01:31:30,443 --> 01:31:33,696
We're proud that the show
has always, through nine years,

1630
01:31:33,779 --> 01:31:36,782
continued to make swings
in terms of storytelling.

1631
01:31:39,285 --> 01:31:43,164
I think people like
the authenticity of the show.

1632
01:31:43,247 --> 01:31:46,792
That's how the show
came into existence in the first place.

1633
01:31:51,839 --> 01:31:56,219
We just try to listen to our gut,
and when it feels right, we go forward.

1634
01:32:00,515 --> 01:32:02,892
You know, the artists that I look up to

1635
01:32:02,975 --> 01:32:05,603
are true to themselves above all else.

1636
01:32:13,069 --> 01:32:13,986
{\an8}What is this?

1637
01:32:14,737 --> 01:32:16,280
{\an8}Just a bunch of junk.

1638
01:32:17,782 --> 01:32:19,659
This show is such a unique show.

1639
01:32:20,535 --> 01:32:22,203
We've been afforded an opportunity

1640
01:32:22,286 --> 01:32:25,790
to build an incredible amount
of high-quality sets.

1641
01:32:25,873 --> 01:32:28,459
In this day and age,
those are rare things.

1642
01:32:30,586 --> 01:32:34,382
Most other shows would say,
okay, we just build this small amount,

1643
01:32:34,465 --> 01:32:36,467
everything else becomes VFX,

1644
01:32:36,551 --> 01:32:39,679
but it's important for the brothers
to have that physical playground.

1645
01:32:40,304 --> 01:32:42,181
We'll have to rectify with the brothers

1646
01:32:42,265 --> 01:32:45,268
where this blue goes
and how long of a travel it is.

1647
01:32:45,351 --> 01:32:46,811
- Right.
- Like, there's...

1648
01:32:46,894 --> 01:32:47,728
It's...

1649
01:32:47,812 --> 01:32:48,729
Yeah, there's...

1650
01:32:48,813 --> 01:32:52,233
There's going to be some issue,
like, just understanding the space.

1651
01:32:52,316 --> 01:32:53,859
I think we're thinking about,

1652
01:32:53,943 --> 01:32:55,528
because of just the distance,

1653
01:32:55,611 --> 01:32:58,197
minimum of 60 feet of blue,

1654
01:32:58,281 --> 01:33:01,075
60 feet of blue there,
and 60 feet of blue there.

1655
01:33:02,743 --> 01:33:04,704
Yeah, of course I'm proud of all this.

1656
01:33:04,787 --> 01:33:06,747
Like, it's an astounding achievement

1657
01:33:06,831 --> 01:33:11,210
that this thing hasn't gone off the rails
in a burning ball of fire.

1658
01:33:12,003 --> 01:33:14,839
It felt like it... could.

1659
01:33:16,173 --> 01:33:18,342
I don't know what we do after this.

1660
01:33:19,552 --> 01:33:22,638
Everything we do is going to be boring,
you know?

1661
01:33:28,769 --> 01:33:30,271
What's up?

1662
01:33:31,606 --> 01:33:34,650
- Corey, can you get up the pre-vis?
- Wow, look at this.

1663
01:33:34,734 --> 01:33:36,319
- Natalia giving Ripley.
- Holy shit.

1664
01:33:36,402 --> 01:33:39,322
- Yeah!
- We did not bring enough weapons.

1665
01:33:39,405 --> 01:33:43,075
It started out, season 1, us going,
"Everything has to be practical."

1666
01:33:43,159 --> 01:33:47,913
But we've got a monster that's the size
of, like, you know, three buildings,

1667
01:33:47,997 --> 01:33:51,417
and so obviously that's going to
have to be computer graphics.

1668
01:33:51,500 --> 01:33:53,878
We're out there
with our actors in the elements.

1669
01:33:53,961 --> 01:33:55,713
We're not on stage.

1670
01:33:56,255 --> 01:33:58,591
The more practical it is,

1671
01:33:58,674 --> 01:34:02,511
the easier it is for everyone
to lose themselves in the scene.

1672
01:34:02,595 --> 01:34:06,599
Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Whoa!

1673
01:34:07,141 --> 01:34:08,976
Yeah! Sick, man.

1674
01:34:09,644 --> 01:34:10,895
We gotta get going.

1675
01:34:12,730 --> 01:34:14,940
Sometimes they'll animate your actions,

1676
01:34:15,024 --> 01:34:16,567
your facial expressions, your movements.

1677
01:34:16,651 --> 01:34:18,402
It is a prediction of what you'll do.

1678
01:34:18,486 --> 01:34:21,197
But do you want me to,
like, make that face when I turn?

1679
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:24,492
I don't think that's their goal,
but that can be a little bit like,

1680
01:34:24,575 --> 01:34:27,578
"Ah, I kind of want to figure that out
when I get there."

1681
01:34:29,372 --> 01:34:31,123
<i>Lock it up. Thank you, guys.</i>

1682
01:34:31,207 --> 01:34:36,462
Here we go. Ready?
Three, two, one, action! Boom!

1683
01:34:37,421 --> 01:34:38,422
Boom!

1684
01:34:39,965 --> 01:34:41,300
Boom!

1685
01:34:41,384 --> 01:34:43,469
And... boom!

1686
01:34:43,552 --> 01:34:47,306
That was so close, though.
All right, cut! Cut, cut, cut.

1687
01:34:47,390 --> 01:34:49,767
Dude, that last one was so fast.

1688
01:34:52,144 --> 01:34:55,898
Working with blue screen
usually ends up looking not bad,

1689
01:34:55,981 --> 01:34:58,693
but if at all possible, we avoid it.

1690
01:34:59,193 --> 01:35:02,697
Frankly, Ross and I have
a lot of trouble framing up shots

1691
01:35:02,780 --> 01:35:05,241
when you're just looking
at an actor on blue screen.

1692
01:35:05,324 --> 01:35:08,661
I don't really understand what looks good,
what doesn't look good.

1693
01:35:08,744 --> 01:35:10,830
Nick, can you give it some, like...

1694
01:35:10,913 --> 01:35:14,333
On boulder hit,
can you give it, like, some shake?

1695
01:35:18,295 --> 01:35:23,217
- Set?
- Set, and rehearsal, and action!

1696
01:35:23,300 --> 01:35:24,468
Roar!

1697
01:35:25,678 --> 01:35:27,680
And boulder!

1698
01:35:29,098 --> 01:35:32,393
- And... Yeah, get out of there. Just kinda...
- Go! Go, go, go!

1699
01:35:32,476 --> 01:35:34,437
- Which way?
- And get out of there.

1700
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:36,313
- What way are we going?
- Cut rehearsal.

1701
01:35:36,397 --> 01:35:37,440
Back?

1702
01:35:37,523 --> 01:35:41,694
Is it like we're running into this shot,
like, already having seen her?

1703
01:35:41,777 --> 01:35:45,531
No, we're running away from that thing,
and I think the motivation is...

1704
01:35:45,614 --> 01:35:48,576
- Moving away.
- It's like, it's not chasing us anymore.

1705
01:35:48,659 --> 01:35:50,035
Yeah, that's right.

1706
01:35:50,119 --> 01:35:53,289
- And then someone looks and sees Eleven.
- Did we...? Right.

1707
01:35:53,372 --> 01:35:54,915
Ames, where's the monster?

1708
01:35:54,999 --> 01:35:56,959
- They're running away, right?
- Yeah.

1709
01:35:57,042 --> 01:35:59,837
- So where is it?
- They were facing here. The monster's now...

1710
01:35:59,920 --> 01:36:01,756
That's what I thought, okay, yeah.

1711
01:36:01,839 --> 01:36:04,800
{\an8}Part of the job of VFX
is to remind everybody

1712
01:36:04,884 --> 01:36:08,137
{\an8}and help everybody integrate
the aspects that aren't there yet

1713
01:36:08,220 --> 01:36:10,931
but will be on the final composite

1714
01:36:11,015 --> 01:36:12,725
so that everything looks like

1715
01:36:12,808 --> 01:36:17,354
it was framed for and shot
with the intention of it being there.

1716
01:36:17,438 --> 01:36:18,314
So where is she?

1717
01:36:18,397 --> 01:36:19,982
So she's at three o'clock.

1718
01:36:20,065 --> 01:36:23,903
They were facing here, because
she throws the rock from that direction.

1719
01:36:23,986 --> 01:36:25,237
- Oh, interesting.
- Yeah.

1720
01:36:25,321 --> 01:36:26,739
Hey, guys. Okay.

1721
01:36:28,032 --> 01:36:31,327
I got some clarity here. This is
actually going to make things easier.

1722
01:36:31,410 --> 01:36:35,206
As you're running this way, right, you'll...

1723
01:36:35,289 --> 01:36:37,583
Eleven's actually over here.

1724
01:36:37,666 --> 01:36:39,084
- Okay.
- The monster's here.

1725
01:36:39,168 --> 01:36:40,002
Oh.

1726
01:36:40,085 --> 01:36:42,254
So you guys can all start
to see her and slow down.

1727
01:36:42,338 --> 01:36:43,547
That makes a lot of sense.

1728
01:36:43,631 --> 01:36:46,217
Here we go. Ready, and roar!

1729
01:36:46,300 --> 01:36:49,136
- Go.
- It's coming to get you and boulder hit!

1730
01:37:16,038 --> 01:37:21,210
I haven't really fully put together
all that I want to do in here yet.

1731
01:37:21,919 --> 01:37:25,130
This is like a playtime tonight

1732
01:37:25,214 --> 01:37:28,801
to sort of just figure out
what works in here

1733
01:37:28,884 --> 01:37:32,847
and trying to come up with fun,
new things that make the bros excited.

1734
01:37:32,930 --> 01:37:36,684
They like violence,
so if we can do some good violent hits,

1735
01:37:36,767 --> 01:37:39,144
and make this pretty brutal,
I think it'll be good.

1736
01:37:39,228 --> 01:37:40,563
- Yes.
- Yeah.

1737
01:37:40,646 --> 01:37:43,566
I feel like there are a lot
of really brutal opportunities.

1738
01:37:44,149 --> 01:37:45,693
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

1739
01:37:54,159 --> 01:37:55,494
Then she goes...

1740
01:38:00,124 --> 01:38:03,085
Shannon, be Eleven for me for a second.

1741
01:38:03,711 --> 01:38:06,505
- Throw some powers at Vecna over there.
- Okay.

1742
01:38:08,215 --> 01:38:10,134
Boom, he slides back.

1743
01:38:11,510 --> 01:38:14,179
Foo... Shoots his vines out at her,

1744
01:38:14,263 --> 01:38:16,515
and then she's gonna dive out of the way.

1745
01:38:18,934 --> 01:38:20,060
Maybe.

1746
01:38:28,152 --> 01:38:29,153
Go!

1747
01:38:30,154 --> 01:38:33,866
You might have to try
to fight the unwrap a little bit,

1748
01:38:33,949 --> 01:38:36,911
and let it ride you and pull you,
and then go.

1749
01:38:38,787 --> 01:38:40,414
Oh, that's cool.

1750
01:38:41,290 --> 01:38:42,499
- Bam!
- Yeah.

1751
01:38:45,002 --> 01:38:47,338
I'm going backwards, though.

1752
01:38:47,421 --> 01:38:49,840
I got the beginning.
Then I have like the very end.

1753
01:38:49,924 --> 01:38:51,842
I don't have the middle... yet.

1754
01:38:51,926 --> 01:38:53,135
Let's see this one.

1755
01:39:06,148 --> 01:39:08,442
These are going to be
kind of bones going through,

1756
01:39:08,525 --> 01:39:12,237
and we're going to be having
these teeth coming through the whole set.

1757
01:39:18,202 --> 01:39:21,246
I think that one and that one...

1758
01:39:22,081 --> 01:39:23,165
are my favorite.

1759
01:39:23,248 --> 01:39:27,044
Yeah, from this angle right there,
that one looks pretty excellent.

1760
01:39:27,127 --> 01:39:29,588
And once it gets
that yellow kind of shellac on it...

1761
01:39:29,672 --> 01:39:31,507
- Mm-hm.
- ...it really works.

1762
01:39:33,133 --> 01:39:34,927
Trying to make it look...

1763
01:39:36,011 --> 01:39:38,263
{\an8}like flesh, but not human flesh,

1764
01:39:38,347 --> 01:39:40,516
{\an8}because then it would
just look like a big foot.

1765
01:39:40,599 --> 01:39:42,935
Always doing something gross over here.

1766
01:39:43,435 --> 01:39:45,396
They haven't finished sculpting on that.

1767
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:48,357
They aren't going to be done
with that till the end of next week,

1768
01:39:48,440 --> 01:39:49,650
so we'll have...

1769
01:39:50,859 --> 01:39:52,987
{\an8}I think, a week and a half.

1770
01:39:53,654 --> 01:39:55,739
Hopefully it all comes together.

1771
01:40:09,378 --> 01:40:11,755
It's gorgeous. Proud of those guys.

1772
01:40:13,340 --> 01:40:16,343
I feel like it's the end of an era.
Like, this is the end of giant...

1773
01:40:16,427 --> 01:40:19,388
- We may be making the last giant set.
- Yeah.

1774
01:40:21,098 --> 01:40:23,767
- It's kind of a lost art.
- It's a bygone art, yeah.

1775
01:40:33,193 --> 01:40:34,570
Good morning, everyone.

1776
01:40:34,653 --> 01:40:37,406
Here we are in Pain Tree, finally.

1777
01:40:37,489 --> 01:40:39,199
Incredible work from our sculptors,

1778
01:40:39,283 --> 01:40:41,744
our painters,
the art department, Chris and his team.

1779
01:40:41,827 --> 01:40:45,789
Incredible, stunning work, guys.
Really beautiful set.

1780
01:40:53,547 --> 01:40:55,257
When did you guys start it?

1781
01:40:55,340 --> 01:40:57,301
Four months, right?

1782
01:40:57,384 --> 01:40:59,178
That feels about the time where I went,

1783
01:40:59,261 --> 01:41:01,972
"Oh my God,
this is the size of a football field."

1784
01:41:02,056 --> 01:41:05,601
I think that's when Melissa and I,
we probably, five months ago,

1785
01:41:05,684 --> 01:41:08,812
really started
our planning, plotting process.

1786
01:41:08,896 --> 01:41:10,439
Were you ever nervous?

1787
01:41:11,440 --> 01:41:13,275
Probably. I don't remember, though.

1788
01:41:13,358 --> 01:41:14,693
- Yeah.
- Probably.

1789
01:41:15,277 --> 01:41:17,946
So when you look at the pictures of it,

1790
01:41:18,030 --> 01:41:24,328
that you kind of have an idea already
in your head of how to accomplish it.

1791
01:41:24,411 --> 01:41:26,497
Because I looked at that and went...

1792
01:41:26,580 --> 01:41:27,539
Yeah. Completely.

1793
01:41:27,623 --> 01:41:30,751
"Well, I don't know, forget it.
It's not happening."

1794
01:41:30,834 --> 01:41:31,752
It's been a journey.

1795
01:41:31,835 --> 01:41:35,589
I'm perfectly okay having this
be my peak of my career because...

1796
01:41:35,672 --> 01:41:39,510
- Well, it's been awesome.
- Yeah. Thank you. I really appreciate it.

1797
01:41:41,386 --> 01:41:43,972
"Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up."

1798
01:41:44,890 --> 01:41:46,809
Vecna rises to his feet,

1799
01:41:46,892 --> 01:41:50,312
and once again, Eleven and Vecna
find themselves facing off.

1800
01:41:50,395 --> 01:41:53,482
Eleven takes in Vecna's new,
terrifying form.

1801
01:41:53,565 --> 01:41:56,652
- Look how many... Look at the scale.
- Oh my God.

1802
01:41:56,735 --> 01:41:58,821
- It's sick!
- Look at this.

1803
01:41:59,738 --> 01:42:01,198
Wow.

1804
01:42:02,991 --> 01:42:05,953
Okay, I'm really happy
I get to see you like this first.

1805
01:42:06,036 --> 01:42:07,538
- Did you ask for this?
- No.

1806
01:42:07,621 --> 01:42:10,374
- Just happened this way?
- I've never seen half Vecna.

1807
01:42:10,457 --> 01:42:12,668
That maybe is the way it's meant to be.

1808
01:42:14,378 --> 01:42:15,838
- And then earthquake.
- Yeah.

1809
01:42:15,921 --> 01:42:18,382
- Fall, fall, fall...
- Then it'll go left, right.

1810
01:42:18,465 --> 01:42:23,887
It's left, right and then down.
The monster kind of lands.

1811
01:42:24,638 --> 01:42:27,850
You're in the belly of the beast
in the ribcage,

1812
01:42:27,933 --> 01:42:29,685
and then it starts moving.

1813
01:42:30,394 --> 01:42:33,480
We had to go old school
using interactive light

1814
01:42:33,564 --> 01:42:38,110
coming from outside the set to feel
like the shadow's moving around inside.

1815
01:42:38,193 --> 01:42:43,323
It was this kind of gloomy, diffused,
amber version of the sunlight,

1816
01:42:43,407 --> 01:42:45,409
imagining you're on Mars.

1817
01:42:45,909 --> 01:42:47,161
And action!

1818
01:42:47,244 --> 01:42:48,328
Left!

1819
01:42:48,829 --> 01:42:49,830
Right!

1820
01:42:51,623 --> 01:42:52,708
Left.

1821
01:42:56,503 --> 01:42:58,088
- Cut it!
- Tail sticks!

1822
01:42:58,172 --> 01:42:59,715
- You ready to go up?
- Oh yeah.

1823
01:42:59,798 --> 01:43:02,050
- Do a hang test, just to check everything.
- So ready.

1824
01:43:02,134 --> 01:43:04,052
- Okay, let's take Jamie up.
- So ready.

1825
01:43:07,264 --> 01:43:09,808
We're going to turn our camera as well.

1826
01:43:09,892 --> 01:43:11,518
Oh, this is sick.

1827
01:43:23,864 --> 01:43:26,658
Is this year like the gnarliest
year, you think? The most violent?

1828
01:43:26,742 --> 01:43:29,828
I don't know
if it's gnarlier than last year.

1829
01:43:29,912 --> 01:43:33,373
Yeah, last year with the bone-break,
and that was pretty gnarly, man.

1830
01:43:33,457 --> 01:43:36,710
Even season 2, we don't have
anything as gnarly as Bob's death.

1831
01:43:38,378 --> 01:43:40,130
I'll never forget my mom called me up,

1832
01:43:40,214 --> 01:43:42,424
and she's like,
"You went too far on that."

1833
01:43:42,507 --> 01:43:44,676
- Really?
- "You went too far."

1834
01:43:44,760 --> 01:43:45,844
She said that?

1835
01:43:45,928 --> 01:43:47,763
I think she stopped watching.

1836
01:43:47,846 --> 01:43:51,016
She stopped watching!
No, they watch the dailies.

1837
01:43:51,099 --> 01:43:53,810
- That's amazing.
- They keep up with the dailies. I don't.

1838
01:43:53,894 --> 01:43:54,978
Your parents?

1839
01:43:55,062 --> 01:43:56,772
I'll check in, and I'll be like,

1840
01:43:56,855 --> 01:43:59,775
"Is Frank doing okay?"
They're like, "He's doing great."

1841
01:43:59,858 --> 01:44:03,028
It's less notes. It's more like,
"I'm not sure you got that scene."

1842
01:44:03,111 --> 01:44:05,280
And you're like, "Oh shit, Mom? God."

1843
01:44:05,364 --> 01:44:07,741
She does... They don't really say much.

1844
01:44:08,659 --> 01:44:11,620
She watches
till she makes sure we got it. Yeah.

1845
01:44:12,454 --> 01:44:16,208
Here we are rehearsing, ready, and action.

1846
01:44:19,211 --> 01:44:20,504
And...

1847
01:44:20,587 --> 01:44:23,507
decapitation and victory.

1848
01:44:36,645 --> 01:44:39,022
Dance party! We got Vecna!

1849
01:44:42,109 --> 01:44:43,735
Let's twerk on Vecna!

1850
01:44:45,153 --> 01:44:46,238
Vecna!

1851
01:44:46,822 --> 01:44:47,990
- What's up, dude?
- What's up?

1852
01:44:48,073 --> 01:44:49,324
You ready to make a show?

1853
01:44:49,408 --> 01:44:52,661
Everyone's surprisingly emotional at
your death, so I feel like you should be...

1854
01:44:52,744 --> 01:44:53,829
Should I cry?

1855
01:44:54,329 --> 01:44:56,123
- Should I cry?
- I don't think you should.

1856
01:44:56,206 --> 01:44:58,750
- There were tears over here.
- We're gonna weep watching you get killed.

1857
01:44:58,834 --> 01:45:01,086
- Yeah? People from the cast?
- Yeah.

1858
01:45:02,004 --> 01:45:06,883
- Oh. "They like me, they really like me."
- They were crying with joy, though.

1859
01:45:07,467 --> 01:45:09,720
- And relief.
- Tension relief... Yeah.

1860
01:45:13,890 --> 01:45:16,810
- You kill him. Separate him from Jamie.
- Sweetheart.

1861
01:45:16,893 --> 01:45:19,646
- Look how disgusting he is.
- I don't want to swing at him.

1862
01:45:19,730 --> 01:45:21,440
- You're not gonna actually swing at him.
- Okay.

1863
01:45:21,523 --> 01:45:24,526
No, he's not gonna be there.
This is just to rehearse the...

1864
01:45:24,609 --> 01:45:26,528
To rehearse the dialogue.

1865
01:45:27,404 --> 01:45:29,990
- You're almost wrapped.
- Really?

1866
01:45:30,073 --> 01:45:32,034
- Sweetie!
- How are you?

1867
01:45:32,117 --> 01:45:33,327
Oh my God.

1868
01:45:34,703 --> 01:45:36,204
Have you not shot with him?

1869
01:45:36,288 --> 01:45:39,166
No. This is our first time
shooting together.

1870
01:45:40,208 --> 01:45:42,085
Ready, and action!

1871
01:45:56,933 --> 01:45:59,186
You fucked with the wrong family.

1872
01:46:00,604 --> 01:46:02,272
And decapitation.

1873
01:46:04,066 --> 01:46:05,108
And cut.

1874
01:46:09,863 --> 01:46:14,159
That's it for Jamie
and the Pain Tree! Good job, Jamie!

1875
01:46:14,993 --> 01:46:18,121
I'm not saying anything,
'cause I'm seeing you all on Thursday.

1876
01:46:18,663 --> 01:46:20,624
Wednesday. I love you. That was awesome.

1877
01:46:20,707 --> 01:46:22,125
- Love you.
- Thank you, Jamie.

1878
01:46:22,209 --> 01:46:24,544
You rock. Well done.

1879
01:46:26,004 --> 01:46:28,507
See you guys on... See you on Wednesday.

1880
01:46:34,554 --> 01:46:37,015
{\an8}- Jamie wrapped.
- How do you guys feel? Jamie's wrapped?

1881
01:46:37,099 --> 01:46:41,061
{\an8}He's done. And everyone was asking him,
like, "So, how'd it feel?"

1882
01:46:42,813 --> 01:46:44,773
- Ready?
- Uh, yeah.

1883
01:46:44,856 --> 01:46:48,110
And the car's gonna skid
to a stop in here,

1884
01:46:48,193 --> 01:46:52,197
and then, before you know it,
probably within three seconds,

1885
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:53,657
this door's gonna fly open,

1886
01:46:53,740 --> 01:46:55,951
and you're gonna be faced
with soldiers with guns

1887
01:46:56,034 --> 01:46:59,663
who're gonna be saying, "Get out!"
And they start to pull you out of the car.

1888
01:46:59,746 --> 01:47:02,707
I kinda wanna shoot it real,
make it feel real.

1889
01:47:02,791 --> 01:47:04,126
See you guys later.

1890
01:47:05,961 --> 01:47:06,962
And I'll cue you.

1891
01:47:08,547 --> 01:47:11,425
Actually, you're gonna need
to wait till they're...

1892
01:47:11,508 --> 01:47:14,344
It's a bit of a cheat, but wait
until they're all pushed up

1893
01:47:14,428 --> 01:47:15,637
against the truck.

1894
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:16,596
Right.

1895
01:47:16,680 --> 01:47:19,099
Ready, and action.

1896
01:47:27,149 --> 01:47:29,067
It is a massive ensemble piece.

1897
01:47:31,111 --> 01:47:33,405
Like this giant moving circus.

1898
01:47:36,199 --> 01:47:38,076
When you come back to this show,

1899
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:40,871
and you're with these people,
it's like you're 14 again.

1900
01:47:42,038 --> 01:47:44,040
Yeah, that never really goes away.

1901
01:47:46,501 --> 01:47:51,214
These guys have brought me
the closest to being an action hero.

1902
01:47:53,008 --> 01:47:55,093
I'm in my childhood right now,

1903
01:47:55,177 --> 01:47:58,305
playing the character
that I would've wanted to play

1904
01:47:58,388 --> 01:48:00,015
if I was watching this.

1905
01:48:01,850 --> 01:48:04,144
I'm sorry they did that to you.

1906
01:48:04,227 --> 01:48:07,105
They won't be doing that to me.

1907
01:48:08,315 --> 01:48:09,900
Thank you, though, for taking the brunt...

1908
01:48:09,983 --> 01:48:12,652
- Your beard didn't make it.
- We gotta get some touch-up.

1909
01:48:14,571 --> 01:48:18,241
Everyone can justify their behaviors.

1910
01:48:18,825 --> 01:48:21,286
You don't need to know
whether you're good or bad.

1911
01:48:21,369 --> 01:48:25,582
Pretty much every bad character
thinks they're good in some way.

1912
01:48:28,210 --> 01:48:31,046
The Duffers talk to us like equals.

1913
01:48:31,880 --> 01:48:36,051
It's the best feeling in the world
as a kid to feel taken seriously.

1914
01:48:36,134 --> 01:48:38,428
I feel like you guys are already all up.

1915
01:48:38,512 --> 01:48:41,556
I think as it... I'm not sure
if there's enough time. I think...

1916
01:48:42,057 --> 01:48:45,310
They helped me learn how
to talk to adults and explain myself,

1917
01:48:45,393 --> 01:48:48,897
and learn how to flesh out ideas
and understand a character.

1918
01:48:54,236 --> 01:48:57,072
We'll take a deep breath.
Things may work, things may not.

1919
01:48:58,406 --> 01:49:00,784
There's just a general level of respect.

1920
01:49:03,245 --> 01:49:05,872
The foundation of the show
is built on trust.

1921
01:49:06,540 --> 01:49:09,709
Trust that all the different departments
have synergy.

1922
01:49:10,460 --> 01:49:13,255
I think that's why people
gravitate to <i>Stranger Things,</i>

1923
01:49:13,338 --> 01:49:16,633
because everyone's, like,
truly connected, even behind the scenes.

1924
01:49:17,926 --> 01:49:20,136
It's a full undertaking.

1925
01:49:20,220 --> 01:49:22,973
You really get to be in and out
with these people,

1926
01:49:23,056 --> 01:49:27,018
and see them on good days and see them
on bad, and they see you that way too.

1927
01:49:28,603 --> 01:49:32,524
I had found it really hard
to fit in in the past.

1928
01:49:34,234 --> 01:49:37,737
But here, I'm welcomed and loved.

1929
01:49:46,329 --> 01:49:49,749
It feels like it's a part of me
that I'm leaving behind as well,

1930
01:49:49,833 --> 01:49:51,626
not just a character.

1931
01:49:51,710 --> 01:49:53,211
I think it's just, um...

1932
01:49:55,505 --> 01:49:56,840
half of my life.

1933
01:49:58,508 --> 01:50:03,680
This is a series wrap for
the one and only Millie Bobby Brown.

1934
01:50:13,064 --> 01:50:14,858
I'm not ready to let go.

1935
01:50:23,908 --> 01:50:26,953
Ladies and gentlemen,
that is a series wrap...

1936
01:50:28,288 --> 01:50:32,042
for Charlie, Natalia, Joe and Maya.

1937
01:50:33,585 --> 01:50:36,296
There's so much work that goes in
when we're not here.

1938
01:50:36,379 --> 01:50:38,423
Thanks to everyone here, really.

1939
01:50:56,858 --> 01:50:58,443
{\an8}<i>Happy last day.</i>

1940
01:50:58,526 --> 01:51:00,028
Happy last day!

1941
01:51:04,407 --> 01:51:05,867
- Hey, buddy.
- Hey.

1942
01:51:09,412 --> 01:51:12,082
Good morning.
Fifteen more hours of crying to do.

1943
01:51:12,165 --> 01:51:15,043
I was about to say,
we have so much day ahead of us.

1944
01:51:16,127 --> 01:51:18,213
You can't be emotional already.

1945
01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:22,425
- Stinky got me first thing. I'm sorry.
- Oh my God.

1946
01:51:23,051 --> 01:51:24,427
Don't, Stacey, don't.

1947
01:51:24,511 --> 01:51:26,096
I'm sorry.

1948
01:51:26,179 --> 01:51:28,556
- You have 12 hours to get through.
- Tudor just got me.

1949
01:51:28,640 --> 01:51:29,849
Oh, Jesus.

1950
01:51:30,475 --> 01:51:32,686
- Everything's fine.
- What do you mean Tudor got you?

1951
01:51:32,769 --> 01:51:35,105
- Tudor gave me a hug, and I lost it a bit.
- Oh, no.

1952
01:51:35,188 --> 01:51:36,272
Oh, no.

1953
01:51:36,981 --> 01:51:39,359
Don't worry, I won't hug you.

1954
01:51:39,859 --> 01:51:42,028
- Happy last day, guys.
- Happy last day.

1955
01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:47,033
{\an8}It'll be an emotional day
for all of us and an emotional scene,

1956
01:51:47,117 --> 01:51:48,451
{\an8}especially for our actors.

1957
01:51:48,535 --> 01:51:51,955
Hard to believe we made it, guys.
Last day here. Let's get on it.

1958
01:51:52,038 --> 01:51:54,374
- Whoo, whoo!
- Yes!

1959
01:51:59,796 --> 01:52:02,966
- Starting off the day on a high.
- Yeah.

1960
01:52:03,049 --> 01:52:06,636
We'll see where we are in 12 hours. Tudor!

1961
01:52:08,179 --> 01:52:09,806
Happy last day.

1962
01:52:09,889 --> 01:52:10,724
- Dandy.
- Peachy?

1963
01:52:10,807 --> 01:52:12,225
Yeah. Just dandy.

1964
01:52:15,729 --> 01:52:17,814
I want to do a quick huddle.

1965
01:52:22,318 --> 01:52:25,405
- All right, let's bring it home.
- Don't leave Ross out.

1966
01:52:25,488 --> 01:52:26,740
- Let's do it.
- Let's do it.

1967
01:52:26,823 --> 01:52:28,324
- I don't have any special...
- What?

1968
01:52:28,408 --> 01:52:30,285
I just wanna say I love you guys.

1969
01:52:30,368 --> 01:52:31,828
- Love you too.
- Love you too.

1970
01:52:31,911 --> 01:52:34,080
- Okay. That's it.
- All righty.

1971
01:52:37,208 --> 01:52:40,086
- Ugh! Sadie, don't get me.
- Oh, boy.

1972
01:52:43,089 --> 01:52:44,132
Here we go.

1973
01:52:44,758 --> 01:52:47,218
Ready and action.

1974
01:52:48,595 --> 01:52:49,596
Come on.

1975
01:52:50,889 --> 01:52:53,808
What this means... This is you putting away...

1976
01:52:54,434 --> 01:52:56,853
Maybe... This is probably too... But whatever.

1977
01:52:56,936 --> 01:52:59,272
It's putting away childhood.
So just saying goodbye.

1978
01:52:59,355 --> 01:53:01,149
It's a saying goodbye feeling.

1979
01:53:01,649 --> 01:53:04,277
You would take your time.
You're not gonna shove it and walk off.

1980
01:53:04,360 --> 01:53:07,906
There's a weight to saying goodbye
to this part of your life.

1981
01:53:13,620 --> 01:53:16,956
So you put the book in.
Then we're slowly going to pull away.

1982
01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:18,958
Then I want to find you
looking to the stairs.

1983
01:53:19,042 --> 01:53:21,503
- And then we pan.
- Okay. Great. Awesome.

1984
01:53:23,922 --> 01:53:25,715
Rolling, rolling.

1985
01:54:08,967 --> 01:54:09,843
Cut.

1986
01:54:14,305 --> 01:54:16,015
Okay, we're going to check it.

1987
01:54:44,711 --> 01:54:47,630
- That was great.
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

1988
01:54:57,015 --> 01:54:57,932
All right, everyone.

1989
01:54:58,016 --> 01:55:04,647
That is a series wrap on Sadie,
Caleb, Gaten, Noah, and Finn.

1990
01:55:20,204 --> 01:55:21,331
Um...

1991
01:55:23,875 --> 01:55:26,210
I know something's definitely coming.

1992
01:55:26,294 --> 01:55:28,463
Um...

1993
01:55:29,839 --> 01:55:31,716
I just wanted to say that, uh...

1994
01:55:32,634 --> 01:55:38,389
I mean, I started, uh,
this show when I was 12

1995
01:55:38,473 --> 01:55:42,727
with these guys. And, um...

1996
01:55:43,728 --> 01:55:48,024
It's going to sound sad,
but I feel like I really didn't feel

1997
01:55:48,107 --> 01:55:50,568
like I had a lot of friends as a kid.

1998
01:55:50,652 --> 01:55:53,696
And like, when I talked to the Duffers
for the first time,

1999
01:55:53,780 --> 01:55:56,115
it felt like I had friends.

2000
01:55:58,159 --> 01:56:01,287
And now I have so many more friends.

2001
01:56:12,173 --> 01:56:15,218
To the cast, um,

2002
01:56:15,301 --> 01:56:18,346
people fell in love with the show
because they fell in love with you.

2003
01:56:19,263 --> 01:56:23,518
Thank you for giving
so much of yourselves to the story...

2004
01:56:23,601 --> 01:56:26,020
For all the laughs, the tears...

2005
01:56:28,898 --> 01:56:30,400
Need me to do this one?

2006
01:56:30,483 --> 01:56:35,947
For being the little brothers,
little sisters we never had.

2007
01:56:37,198 --> 01:56:39,575
You're family. We love you always.

2008
01:56:45,623 --> 01:56:48,835
There are so, so many
on this production we need to thank.

2009
01:56:48,918 --> 01:56:51,379
This is, without a doubt,
without hyperbole,

2010
01:56:51,462 --> 01:56:53,464
the best crew we've ever worked with.

2011
01:56:53,548 --> 01:56:56,259
We felt your love and passion every day.

2012
01:56:56,342 --> 01:56:59,637
We came in here not knowing
what the hell we were doing,

2013
01:56:59,721 --> 01:57:01,931
and I learned from the crew.

2014
01:57:03,266 --> 01:57:05,351
And we made a lot of friends.

2015
01:57:06,728 --> 01:57:09,981
This is day 237.

2016
01:57:10,064 --> 01:57:14,027
We've had 6,725 setups.

2017
01:57:15,820 --> 01:57:19,449
Which adds up to 630 hours of footage.

2018
01:57:20,992 --> 01:57:25,913
For you nerds out there, that's a petabyte
of data, which is 1,000 terabytes.

2019
01:57:26,706 --> 01:57:30,877
I should clarify, that's just main unit,
so who the fuck knows...

2020
01:57:35,923 --> 01:57:37,592
Ready? Here we go.

2021
01:57:37,675 --> 01:57:40,303
And that is a wrap on <i>Stranger Things!</i>

2022
01:58:10,875 --> 01:58:15,296
I think everyone was surprised
by how emotional it was to say goodbye.

2023
01:58:15,379 --> 01:58:18,424
We really felt like Mike
in the final moments of the show.

2024
01:58:18,508 --> 01:58:21,177
It's just so hard to let go.

2025
01:58:21,260 --> 01:58:22,595
But you have to.

2026
01:58:22,678 --> 01:58:24,263
You have to move on.

2027
01:58:24,347 --> 01:58:28,309
It was important to all of us
to close the book on this story,

2028
01:58:28,392 --> 01:58:29,936
these characters,

2029
01:58:30,019 --> 01:58:32,188
and this period of our lives.

2030
01:58:32,271 --> 01:58:35,358
But all the experiences we've had
over the past decade,

2031
01:58:35,441 --> 01:58:36,901
all the crazy ups and downs,

2032
01:58:36,984 --> 01:58:39,695
the chaos of it all, the friends we made,

2033
01:58:39,779 --> 01:58:42,532
will always, always be with us.

2034
01:58:43,783 --> 01:58:46,577
It really was the adventure of a lifetime.

2035
01:58:53,459 --> 01:58:56,337
<i>Darling, you've got to let me know</i>

2036
01:58:57,922 --> 01:59:00,341
<i>Should I stay or should I go?</i>

2037
01:59:01,968 --> 01:59:05,429
<i>If you say that you are mine</i>

2038
01:59:06,430 --> 01:59:09,350
<i>I'll be here till the end of time</i>

2039
01:59:10,351 --> 01:59:14,021
{\an8}<i>So you got to let me know</i>

2040
01:59:14,939 --> 01:59:17,525
{\an8}<i>Should I stay or should I go?</i>

2041
01:59:18,943 --> 01:59:21,362
<i>It's always tease, tease, tease</i>

2042
01:59:22,905 --> 01:59:25,950
{\an8}<i>You're happy when I'm on my knees</i>

2043
01:59:27,451 --> 01:59:30,371
{\an8}<i>One day is fine, the next is black</i>

2044
01:59:31,497 --> 01:59:34,750
<i>So if you want me off your back</i>

2045
01:59:35,751 --> 01:59:39,380
<i>Well, come on and let me know</i>

2046
01:59:40,381 --> 01:59:42,383
<i>Should I stay or should I go?</i>

2047
01:59:44,594 --> 01:59:47,805
{\an8}<i>Should I stay, or should I go now?</i>

2048
01:59:48,472 --> 01:59:51,392
{\an8}<i>Should I stay, or should I go now?</i>

2049
01:59:53,144 --> 01:59:56,814
<i>If I go, there will be trouble</i>

2050
01:59:56,898 --> 02:00:00,776
- Everyone say <i>Stranger Things!
- Stranger Things!</i>

2051
02:00:01,611 --> 02:00:05,740
<i>So come on and let me know</i>

2052
02:00:06,699 --> 02:00:08,451
<i>Should I stay or should I go</i>