The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke has voiced some of the restrictions the crew had to face while filming the third season of the hit superhero show — including how safety precautions prevented drinking water on the set.
“I find it really difficult,” Kripke told Deadline. “This is definitely not my favorite production experience. It’s no one thing, but it’s the cumulative amount of annoying things that all pile up. The crew aren’t allowed to drink water on set. Every two or three hours you have to give them 20, 30 minutes, to just be able to drink water. So that’s an extra hour, hour-and-a-half out of your day, every single day.”
The difficulties in adhering to safety precautions are something most productions over the past year have become familiar with, and each country has its own requirements in handling the pandemic. “In Canada, you’re not allowed to have more than 50 performers on your set at any given time,” Kripke continued. “But we’re a show that often has crowd scenes of 500 or more. So visual effects has to step in, to tile all of our crowds. But when you have a visual effects shot it takes three times as long as a normal shot.”
“Canada has a two-week quarantine,” he added. “So, say I’m bringing in Giancarlo Esposito to film one scene — it’s very, very difficult to get actors in and sit in a hotel room for two weeks just to do a day’s work. I would say every single thing is just harder. We’re figuring it out, and I think the material’s really great, but it’s just every bit of it’s more difficult.”
Kripke stated despite the restrictions they’re in the middle of shooting Season 3 of The Boys and are just over the halfway point. Even though the show is in full-on production, he has not been on set since the beginning of Season 3’s production. “I went through the quarantine and was on set for about three-and-a-half weeks, just in the beginning, to get everybody off and running. But since then I’ve been here [in L.A.].”
Amazon Studios’ The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother’s Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as The Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander, Katia Winter as Little Nina and Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy. Seasons 3 has yet to receive a premiere date.
Source: Deadline
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