LANTERNS Cast Reveals Their Favorite Scenes Of Season 1 With Aaron Pierre & Kyle Chandler | HBO MAX

Dangerous part of the job. You need to be fearless How are you chosen for this? It's only one question Are you afraid? I was raised fearless and i'll do this better than he's ever done it before Then go and get it john stewart My first memory of that day when when I just sort of think of it is Before I shot my first scene, uh, which was only me walking by the way um It was just me walking down a gravel path I just I just kindly asked the The crew to gather around And I just sort of shared with them from my heart. I was very nervous to do this. You know, this is like at least a hundred people who i've never met before and You know, it's it's a very intimidating thing, you know to publicly speak amongst people you've never met before um and I just you know, kindly asked everybody to gather around and just shared that, you know, we're all away from our our loved ones at this time and this is the first day of a six-month shoot, which is 85 percent on location predominantly on location Uh, let's just all do what I know you will you are already doing um and just pour ourselves into this make something that we're all just Undeniably super proud of um, and let's just become a team and a unit, uh, you know like a traveling company, um This is not anything that anybody wasn't already doing, you know, we were all already doing it um, but uh I just wanted to sort of echo The the sentiments that were already present and the energy that was already present and uh, we just became like that We just became like that everybody in every department. Um, we were we were a team. We were a family a traveling company and you know, uh anytime we see someone who's part of the lanterns team now, it's like a nod and a And a and a and a salute, you know, well the first day on set you could just Say that was the read-through once all the producers dc hbo all these strangers in a room and you're reading your character for the very first time And bringing what you think you want to play and how you want to play it to this room of people who are counting on you and and uh I think within like 10 minutes of the read-through The lines were being read like it was a radio drama It was happening at the table and you could feel I could feel the electricity You know, I was waiting for my next line. I wasn't I wasn't like oh god. I gotta talk again and at the end of it you could just tell like everyone was very relieved and Excited I think and that's how it all started Yeah. Yeah. The first day was the read-through but actual first day filming Um, because I never feel like that that confident in a read-through I read through all I want to do afterwards is Talk to everyone in the room and say this that's not how i'm gonna do Like i'm not gonna do it that way so don't sack me yet just um, eh Eh, but then the first day I remember filming was sort of at the macon Ranch outside. You remember you had to do the key thing Yeah, I think that was my first day and I could not There was a certain point in the day where james and um chris Looked like okay good, you know, like I felt like because I felt like um Nerves get to you and you forget how to walk and You know, it just is all a bit overwhelming And also they had me standing in a weird sort of dip in the land. I remember Oh, she was complaining about that big time short anyway And then they were like, there's your mark on the ground I was like what in that hole like and then I was like And then it was my first day so I just did what I was told but I was like Really aware that whenever I sort of walked towards you I was like like short anyway, and then I would just sort of Yeah, it was about three inches shorter. It was perfect Well, I got a lot of memories about being on set. Um I remember being Really excited to be on set again. This was soon after the strike. Yeah, and the fact that there was so many people involved Uh, my first day was like this incredibly beautiful location. I'm sitting on a horse just under big sky We're in the la area. So I see a lot of familiar faces on the crew from you know, a long career It just felt like a real sort of Rejuvenative if that's a word You know coming home kind of moment which I really loved and uh Uh, yeah, that's what i'll say. Yeah I think my first scene was the bar scene and the sex scene in the car Oh, okay. So two errand scenes. Sure a little bit interesting I've done shows where The makeout scene is like I don't know why they keep it right up front. I know it's weird. It's weird, right? So it's like well, sorry, I didn't catch your name. Sorry Um But it was with uh, james. Oh, I know it was with james hawes, but we had done a rehearsal of those scenes So that was wonderful and kind of it took the pressure off The thing that stands to the first time I flew I mean the first time they got all the wiring set up and set the suit up and you know and did that uh outside of rehearsal because They always they always jack up the the pressure on the machine to make it look nice, you know in rehearsal It's like oh, yeah, I can do this and then the next time it's like shooting out of a rubber band It's like there he goes. Yeah But that was that was uh, that was interesting and then the next one for me would be the the very last scene in the show, which I can't talk about as far as As far as everything but the the emotional context of it was uh, it was it was really wonderful to be part of I am I think um for me I realized what I was involved in really and it was in the um when we were doing the the scenes in the football field And there was all these dead bodies lying around and and you guys up on the sands and it was so american and then and I was being so american and this big cowboy hat and a sheriff's badge and my cowboy boots and And and I had You know, it was it just sort of Frightened frightened me quite a lot when I suddenly realized the scope of everything that I'd Asserted I was actually doing. Yeah She has no idea how wonderful she actually is. She's not joking around when she's saying this She has no idea how great she is And there's so much I When you see us on camera together, it's full-on combat acting We had so much fun She yeah pinching yourself She can I can give it but I can't take it and she can give it and hurt my feelings and she was great at it I think I would say there was a scene that we shot. There were multiple scenes that we shot in the literal desert um, and I remember that day I can't remember exactly what my action was, but I think I had to sort of Stare into the distance at something and we're in the desert and the wind started to pick up and it started to sort of uh Really enforce itself. Um and um Like having to stare while there's sand and dirt everything going and your eyes are just getting just burning That was probably the other stuff You know, I love it. I dive in you know, it is what it is It's it's a joy to do all of that. That was challenging, you know having to hold my My stare while i'm contending with all of the elements But you know, we had we had the team on deck for the the eye rinse and all of that stuff So yeah, the sketch scene was was Out of my wheelhouse. Yeah but uh I only kind of enjoyed it. Yeah I'll do it again. He was great. He's so good in it um, yeah for me, you know someone asked me that and I actually recently said yeah the sex scene not because It was very intimidating for me to do And I just remember like I was like, okay don't eat anything that's gonna bloat you that day Don't eat anything that's gonna bloat you. Aaron is like what is bloating? I'm like, you know when I eat something I look like six months pregnant. He was like i've never been bloated I guess All right got up Um, yes, it was it was I don't know. I don't know why I was intimidated I I was I was I was terrified a little bit that stuff's tricky particularly for the women I think I think it's tricky We had a wonderful intimate intimacy coordinator and gita patel, uh director that scene and it was a very very beautifully held space for me and us actually But it's still it's it's still intimidating, you know And you guys really earned it too because that my favorite scene between you is when you're just you're standing in that door jam Yes in five and there's just so much pain and goodbye energy between you and then you earned it with all that other stuff this ring It's the greatest weapon in the universe When and if to use it, that's the whole ball game jr. Did you just use that ring to counterfeit money? No Tell me how you got it the ring, you know how I got that sure as hell didn't interview for it Oh ----, maybe you should have power like that. Shouldn't you have to work for it? I've been doing this since you were a baby. The only way you're gonna get this ring is over my dead ******* body I think he likes me Everybody is lying to us You're not even here till we find out what they're hiding Dangerous part of the job. You need to be fearless How are you chosen for this? It's only one question Are you afraid? I was raised fearless and i'll do this better than he's ever done it before Then go and get it john stewart