Action scenes are built out of a lot of cuts. You can do a little bit of camera movement to inspire or motivate somebody’s feelings a little bit. There’s no trickery, you’re not trying to fool the audience. As long as you can have 40 different camera angles and a bunch of cuts, you can build an action scene, but it’s hard to fake a great emotional performance, and you can get a great performance, a great emotional scene, an impactful scene from characters with really nothing. When you accomplish a really great acting scene - and maybe it’s just because I’m an actor, I don’t know.Īction’s fun, but it’s like the more money you have to spend on the action, the more time you have to shoot it. That being said from a purely cinematic directing standpoint for me, the dramatic and emotional scenes are the ones that affect me the most. We use an arm car and a drone, and you get to bring out all the fun toys. You get to play with all the cool stuff and you get to use the cool camera rigs. The action scenes are fun just because they’re fun. M&C: There’s always action in an episode of SEAL Team, but there’s also emotional scenes, especially this episode. There’s a list, a lot of different stuff that we do. We’ll start on one thing in one shot and then in take two, we’ll start on something else. It’s a lot of handheld cameras constantly moving. The hardest thing is when you’re doing these big group scenes and, just given the nature of how we shoot this show, we do a lot of handoffs. All right, shoot it.” And then I can feel the performances and the scene as an actor and know, “Okay, we got that.” If it’s two people, like the stuff with me and Stella (Alona Tal), it’s not so difficult because I can set up the cameras going, “Okay, this is the shot. And so, when you’re standing there and acting in the scene, it’s tough, especially in big group scenes, it’s harder. It’s mostly because I’m so nitpicky, hands-on, and obsessive when I direct each frame, each shot, each transition, and each movement that 99.9 percent of the people watching will never see, but I’m, like, just super nitpicky about all those things. It’s not hard to direct myself, but from a directing standpoint, I honestly hate it. M&C: You appear in more scenes this time around as an actor. It’s going, “Okay, let me see what I can do with this thing,” and “I can’t wait to see what these words on this page becomes when you see it.” Max Thieriot, Scott Foxx, David Boreanaz. You look at each script for its own challenges and you go, “Oh, this is going to be the hard part in this one,” or, “Man, I wish this was different.” They’re never perfect for you. But I think that’s also what’s challenging about it. Max Thieriot: You’re handed your script, and it’s what you get. Monsters & Critics: What keeps you coming back to directing? M&C also spoke to Thieriot about the special place that Clay holds on Bravo Team, and what he will take away with him from the series, which has yet to receive its pickup for Season 5. They keep going and going and going, becoming more and more intense, more and more dramatic, and more action as it goes on to the point where I was jealous that I didn’t get to direct another one later.” “These last five episodes honestly just build up throughout. “There’s definitely some good drama coming up,” Thieriot shares. Needless to say, none of them are one-hundred percent focused, which could result in some good storytelling ahead. Tonight’s episode sends Bravo on an unexpected mission to the coast of Africa for eight weeks, even as the individual team members deal with personal problems: Ray (Neil Brown Jr.) isn’t sleeping after having been tortured, Sonny’s ( AJ Buckley) going to be a dad and has to break up with Davis (Toni Trucks), and Jason ( David Boreanaz) is learning new lessons about supporting the team after they leave. I’m going to watch the cameras and see what I’m getting with all these shots.’ It’s a big juggle in those scenes, but it’s all part of it.” “And so, I’m trying to be present in the scene, but my head’s spinning, thinking, ‘The cameras aren’t on me now. “Given the shooting schedules that we have now, I can’t go back and watch playback ,” Thieriot says. For me, one of the most rewarding things you can do in this business is being able to craft a whole episode.”īut it’s not without its difficulties, especially when it comes to group scenes, which SEAL Team has a lot of, but especially now during COVID-19 protocols, which have changed the way things are filmed. “I love it,” he tells Monsters & Critics in this exclusive interview. Max Thieriot, who plays Clay Spenser on SEAL Team, heads behind the cameras for tonight’s episode, making it the second time he is directing the CBS drama.
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