“And there’s this big group of interesting characters around that help.
Or don’t.”
“As Hitchcock used to say, it’s a MacGuffin!”
Ben Robson in ‘The Continental’.Starz Entertainment
“We had this weird baton-handoff thing going,” he says.
And sometimes we’d work together, especially in episode 3.
The main thing from Albert was filming style and length.
‘The Continental’.Starz Entertainment
“That was the big thing,” agrees Hughes.
“I didn’t want to run into the problem of action fatigue.
That was a constant creative ebb and flow with Larnell, God bless him.
Colin Woodell in ‘The Continental’.Katalin Vermes/Starz Entertainment
I would always see these stunt [visualizations] and go, ‘Goddamn it Larnell!
Stovall is a longtime fight coordinator and stuntman at 87Eleven.
You’re trying to double-check you don’t hide the other guys coming at him.”
Ayomide Adegun in ‘The Continental’.Katalin Vermes/Starz Entertainment
Those “other guys,” the ones playing the security guards, were local performers, Stovall reveals.
“That was part of our Budapest stunt team and they did an amazing job,” he says.
“Some people were recycled.
Katie McGrath in ‘The Continental’.Starz Entertainment
Someone got shot from the front then shot from the back.
But, yes, shout-out to the Budapest stunt team.
They killed it, awesome guys.”
Stovall describes the fight style of Robson’s character as coming “from a survival standpoint.
“That wasnotCG,” says Hughes.
Stovall was able to shoot the sequence in just 10 hours, which still amazes Hughes.
“Normally, if I was shooting that scene, I need two-and-a-half, three days.
They did all that in under 10 hours.Andwe cut out a floor.
There’s a whole floor [they shot] we cut out.
Stovall reveals that, technically, he didn’t quite manage to wrap up shooting in 10 hours.
“I said, ‘Hey, give me two more minutes, I need to perfect this shot.’
I had it, but I knew I could get it better.”
So can we just push the shoot?'”
Hughes had to work quickly because theDune: Part Twoproduction was arriving to use the studio.
Hughes recalls with a laugh.
“Everybody was in utter fear of doing episode 3,” he says.
“From the studio, to the writers, to the production, everyone was freaked about that episode.
It’s non-stop.”
