So that's always been hanging over the show and Fred was our way of showing the legitimacy of that danger in the books.īut since he had been shot, we still hadn't done that. The reason you take "The Juice" was so that you don't die during those maneuvers. Being under a high-G burn is a danger to the crew. Which is a thing that we've talked about on the show a lot. Can we have an early loss? Fred's death in the books is during a combat maneuver under high-G when he strokes out.
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So right from the start we were talking about how we were going to portray that, and are there characters that we can lose that can be the way we tell that story?įred Johnson dies earlier in the TV show than he does in the books, and that was partly because of those conversations. We're telling a war story and the way you make war stories poignant and meaningful is that there's always a sense of loss. Ty Franck: This was always a discussion from the beginning of developing season 5. : Can you comment on Alex's (Cas Anvar) sudden death scene "stroking-out" aboard the Razorback and how that difficult creative decision was made? Related: Cara Gee opens up on Drummer's odyssey in 'The Expanse' season 5Ĭas Anvar as Alex Kamal in season 5 of "The Expanse" on Amazon Prime Video. They saw what needed to be done and both of them killed it right out of the gate. And our show is a little unusual, it's not a cop show or a doctor show. What they both did was come onto our show, and very quickly grasp the nature of what we've tried to do with those characters. He's been working non-stop for three or four decades. If you look at his IMDB page it's like six or seven pages long. Olunike has been in a dozen things over the last year or two. What a performance that guy put on! He's a young guy and hasn't been in a ton of stuff, but to come in and be as good as he was right out of the gate was astonishing.ĭaniel Abraham: Olunike and Brent, they're old hands at this. And the other one, who really got his start way back in season 4, and has been a huge part of season 5, is Jasai Chase Owens, who played Dominique's son, Filip. Ty Franck: Yeah, I agree one-hundred percent. The work that she brought to it really elevated that whole arc. Of all of the new actors that came in, the way that she played Sakai as this friendly, approachable, charming character, and then this absolutely chilling person, almost without changing anything, just blew me away. How did their work add to the overall depth and dimension of the series?ĭaniel Abraham: I'm also going to mention the name Bahia Watson, who played Sakai. : This season saw many striking performances by the supporting cast like Jasai Chase Owens (Filip), Jose Zuniga (Bull), Brent Sexton (Cyn), and Olunike Adeliyi (Karal). And the interesting thing is since Tom is an actor, you can really tell in that episode that he brought a real focus on the performance side of the episode. Tom had been talking about wanting to direct on the show since very early on, and he did such a nice job with his episode that I kind of wish we'd used him before this. She brought a fine gentle touch to those episodes that helped make those two of the best we've ever done.ĭaniel Abraham: We hadn't worked with Nick Gomez before but we liked him, I thought he was great. Of the new directors, there's Marisol Adler, who directed episode seven and eight, which I think are two of our most emotionally intense episodes that we've ever done on the show. And Jeff Woolnough has worked on every season of the show, including season one, so we've got a couple mainstays there. So he's a pretty known quantity as we've worked together a lot. Ty Franck: Well, Breck Eisner has worked on every season of the show other than season one. : What was it like working with this talented group of directors, new and old, this season and how did they extract such intensity and consistency through ten episodes?
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