Secret box shows are difficult for everyone – even actors

It is not It’s such a complicated show that even its host gets confused at times. While filming the final seasons of the Apple TV sci-fi thriller, Graham Yost remembers two incidents that confused him a lot: when he was an actor who realized that the conversation he wanted to shoot must have already happened, the other involved a group of Japanese people who showed that the small title did not match what was happening on the screen. In both cases, the problem was solved, but Yost’s reaction was the same: “Oh shit, you’re right.”

Keeping everything straight is one of the biggest challenges of working in a complex organization, and like It is not is entering its final two seasonsthe problem is just getting worse. So it’s a good thing Yost has a team working with him to find those bugs. He said: “It’s a lot to follow, but everyone is enjoying it, and I love this partnership.”

Part 3 of It is not will begin streaming on July 3, and expands the story quite a bit. The series follows the lives of the inhabitants of a large underground court centuries into the future. Silo has 10,000 people who live in a vertical city, which is divided into groups that each have their own jobs and cultures, from underground mining to the government. The only way to access the warehouse is through a large spiral staircase that goes from top to bottom, creating a visual representation of the group stages.

At first it seemed that the inhabitants were the last remnants of the post-apocalyptic desert dwellers. But over the course of the first two seasons, it became clear that they lived in only one silo among many, each living in their own villages while being far away from the rest. Part 3 adds a new wrinkle: showing how the world came to be this way in the first place, a process that begins in a world that looks like ours.

The season three premiere jumps back and forth between the grim future where we’ve been for the past two seasons and our present day, where decisions are made that lead to everyone being locked inside the basements. Things are already messed up as the show picks up from last season – protagonist/silo mayor/reluctant reformer Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) has just become the first person to enter the silos and is now struggling with memory problems – and it often only gets worse.

Artist of It is not they all have different ways of dealing with this problem, which is made more difficult by the fact that the pictures are not taken in chronological order. For some, daily group meetings with leaders can be an invaluable tool. “Most days, we’d start the day with storytime, and the director would go through where we are, where we’re from, what happens next,” explains Alexandria Riley, who plays new director Camille Sims in the show. “It’s already a difficult issue, but when you shoot out of order, you have fog.” Ferguson says that the hair and makeup team can be very helpful in tracking this issue, as they need to be on top of things like scars and burns to keep them consistent. Every detail is important. “The small changes you make have a big impact going forward,” he says.

“It’s a lot of pieces that you’re trying to put together,” adds Common, who plays Camille’s husband Robert on the show. “It’s our job to know where we are, but thank God we have help too. Sometimes I have to talk to Alex to be reminded.” The two players also had separate rehearsals to make sure they had it all.

Others followed a different path. Jessica Henwick, for example, joined the main team as investigative journalist Helen in season 3, and says “I haven’t read any events except mine. Because I’m a fan of the game, I want to keep the events. I’ll watch season 3 as a fan and see what happens. I don’t know what happens except in our story.” (Henwick is so passionate that, once cast, he had one goal in mind: “I went to the set and searched the stairs.”)

One thing that doesn’t help much, is checking the situation. It is not is based on a trilogy of books by author Hugh Howey; The first two seasons explored the first book, while the last two will complete the entire story. But a lot has changed in the adaptation as the TV show tries to both make Juliette look good in the middle of the story and change some of the aspects of the present day problems like AI.

“I started reading the books and I realized very quickly that it wasn’t going to help me, because the books are very different,” explains Ashley Zukerman, who plays on the court these days. He says that keeping both the books and the TV show in his mind at the same time would not be helpful and instead he found “that reading all the texts and finding a way to forget (what his character can’t know) was helpful.”

Two seasons left, It is not it is running towards the end as it tries to complete everything. Yost says that four seasons was always the plan, so the plan has been thinking about how to fit everything into the number of episodes. But since the last two seasons were filmed back to back, it also means that It is not the team has to worry about making all the complicated plans. And as much as he says he’ll miss what he did on the show, there’s one thing Ferguson is happier doing than memorizing stories.

He said: “I hated going up and down those stairs.