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BETWEEN TAKES, MARCUS DID HIS BEST NOT TO ACKNOWLEDGE the obvious:
this was a stupid-ass way to die.
Still, at the director’s call of action, he let out a guttural howl and rode
amid the chaos of warfare once more, adrenaline metallic on his tongue as he
galloped through choking smoke-machine clouds. Bellowing stunt
performers on horseback whizzed past while his own horse jolted
rhythmically between his thighs. Mud—or some foul combination of mud
and horseshit, from the smell of it—splattered against his cheek. The special
rig raced ahead of him, the camera on the SUV’s rushing arm capturing all
his determination and desperation.
He didn’t love this season’s script, true. But he loved this. The physicality
of it all. The way their show’s big budget bought those enormous smoke
machines, wired the spider camera tracking overhead, hired those stunt
actors, and paid for his training on horseback. That money reserved acres and
acres of Spanish coastline for the sole purpose of the series’s final, climactic
battle, and it allowed them to rehearse and film for weeks and weeks and
endless, miserable weeks to get just the right shots.
And it was miserable. Often. But because their behind-the-scenes crew of
almost a thousand consummate professionals had set the scene so thoroughly,
so convincingly, he didn’t have to pretend quite so hard, didn’t have to fight
to lose himself in the moment. The hazy, chaotic landscape around him
helped him drop into character, even as the literal and metaphorical
choreography of a successful show and this particular scene came to his hand
like a well-trained hound.
There was no cut when Dido—Carah, his talented colleague of more than
seven years now, ever since pre-production for the series began—appeared
through the fog at exactly the place they’d rehearsed, sword aimed directly at
him. The showrunners had specified long, continuous takes whenever
possible for this battle sequence.
“I have come for my revenge, Aeneas the Betrayer!” Dido shouted, her
voice raw and cracked with rage. Real-life exhaustion too, he imagined.
At a safe distance, he brought the horse to a standstill and swung down.
Strode up to her, knocked aside her sword in one swift motion, and gripped
her shoulders.
“I have come for you, my beloved.” He cupped her face with one dirty
hand. “As soon as I heard you lived once more. Not even the return of the
dead from Tartarus could stop me. I care nothing for anyone or anything else.
Let the world burn. I want you, you alone, and I would defy the gods to have
you.”
If those lines in the script contradicted seasons’ worth of character
development, not to mention the books that had inspired the series, he
wouldn’t dwell on that. Not now.
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