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“I was pretty naked,” Pace tells EW.
Brother Day, the clone emperor of the galaxy.
Lee Pace as Brother Day in ‘Foundation’ season 2.Helen Sloan/Apple TV+
Cleon is forced to subdue them in the nude, and he does so with panache.
“I was pretty naked,” Pace tells EW of filming that scene.
“You know, I don’t mind being [naked].
It’s a crowded set of people, so I’m not gonna be obnoxious about it.
It’s just a body.
That’s my feeling about it.”
It’s also a sequence that Pace feels captures the tone of the new season.
“There’s a violence to it, for sure.
It also has this heightened aesthetic.”
There’s an art to the naked fight.
Pace, who got his start on the stage, thinks of it like theater.
“Like a piece of dance,” he says.
Pace found the sequence to be quite telling of who Brother Day is as a character.
“He likes to be hit and he likes to hit people.
Then he has this unreasonable moment of, ‘you’ve got the option to’t touch me.
I’m the baddest one.’
And in that moment of hubris, the knife cuts his chest.
So we tried to form a little mini narrative inside of it.
It was like being in a play.
Pace considers it “a career high” to pull off this kind of stunt work.
“I love being able to work in a physical way,” he adds.
He believes that fans thirsting after his onscreen presence has nothing to do with him, per se.
“It’s people having a good time with the show and with the character,” he says.
“I love what I do because I know it gives people enjoyment.
So I hope the fight’s entertaining.
It was intended to be.
I’m trying not to take myself too seriously here.
I hope people are entertained by it, you know?
They can call me daddy all they want.”
Foundationseason 2 premieres on Apple TV+ July 14.
