It was one of the last sequences, and I was tired. And I remember being on set once, and I just felt tears coming. But what I did feel a couple of times was exhaustion. I mean, the silo, for various reasons is not a hundred and something floors like the silo is, but it’s enough for me to get really fucking tired running up and down.ĭid it feel as claustrophobic making this show?įERGUSON To be honest, and I don’t know if I should say this, but the sets are so huge that you can’t feel claustrophobic. And we’re acting on sets that are some of the biggest I’ve ever worked on. Everyone loves each other and everyone wants to come back. What was that set like?įERGUSON I am so proud of this set. I feel like you burned a ton of calories on this show because you were always running. Graham is phenomenal, along with the people he works with. That is so difficult when you read a book because you think, how do we process this? How do we get all of this in? Do we make this guy a woman? How do we make it equal? And I got all the answers from just asking and hearing and seeing the changes they could do, just like that. I saw within one change how quickly they could adapt something into a visual spectacle. I did nothing other than basically complain and said,’ I’m not feeling it.’ They went back to the drawing board and presented something else. But also the drama, the tension, the things that it lacked from a visual point of view that I had felt in the book. And I realized how good they were at understanding narrative from my perspective as a female actress, as the lead of the show and what I was after. Then they came back and they had done a change. I kept on asking my agents, ‘have they cast it? Who have they offered it to? And, I dunno, I was so drawn to it. I’m gonna move on, but these are my notes.’ And then I went, but I kept on coming back to the story. I didn’t love the first draft of one of the episodes when they offered the role to me. It wasn’t anything I wanted to go out with, but it kind of falls into the category of your question. I was a part of the process with the script. What do you think about Showrunner/EP Graham Yost’s work, adapting these books for the small screen? It seems like a behemoth task.įERGUSON I’m in awe. What does that do to our psyche? Not over why we’re locked in, but more about what’s out there? I love the world of not knowing and then gradually opening up the possibility of getting out. What I found interesting was how I loved the world in the silo. I did all the research I could and read all the books. It’s a grander picture that gradually unravels. When you began this project, did you want to know, or did you feel you needed to know what was on the outside of the silo before you began shooting?įERGUSON If you’ve read the books by Hugh Howey, who is a very intelligent human being, it’s not just one answer.
It’s all we have seen for the last 200 something years.
The world that you are watching is our true reality, right? So there shouldn’t be a shock effect or a feeling of claustrophobia. And I also think it is quite important for us actors to not make the parallel to the world of the lockdown. I wasn’t even thinking about the pandemic. Yeah, of course.’ How claustrophobic and weird, but no, in my head I was pushing forward with our story and just so happy we were able to shoot it. I didn’t even make the parallel in my head until doing interviews. Just being able to go onto set, even if we were behind masks. Obviously I see the relationship to Covid. Did you wonder whether people would want want to watch a drama like this because of the hell they’ve already been through? Rebecca Ferguson Says 'Dune' Is "Nothing" Compared To 'Part Two': "It's Unreal"Īhead of the season finale, Deadline was granted an all-too-brief interview with Ferguson, who addressed the show’s arrival during the pandemic and what it was like to constantly run up and down those stairs.Īnd no, she didn’t reveal how many other silos are truly out there.ĭEADLINE An apocalyptic drama coming out during a pandemic.
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