Directors of Netflix’s biggest series this year gather for Emmy Contending Storytellers Panel moderated by Variety's Jenelle Riley as part of Netflix FYSEE TV
While most of this season’s TV directors would probably agree that the ongoing COVID pandemic has been the biggest challenge in creating a piece of television, John Wells, who directed and produced Netflix’s “Maid,” had to overcome a different kind of obstacle: working with a 3-year-old.
“Margaret [Qualley] was in every scene and she was acting for two in every scene, because the kid didn’t really want to do what was in the script,” Wells said. “We were constantly spending a lot of time talking about, ‘Well, if you can get her to turn her head here, then I can put something else in her mouth on the other side.’ And then coming up with games.
Wells shared this story during the Emmy Contending Storytellers Panel for Netflix FYSEE TV, moderated bysenior features editor Jenelle Riley. Joining them were the directors of Netflix’s biggest series this year: Natasha Lyonne of “Russian Doll,” S.J. Clarkson of “Anatomy of a Scandal,” Hwang Dong-hyuk of “Squid Game” and Matt and Ross Duffer of “Stranger Things.” All of them shared their own challenges working on their shows, with Hwang revealing the physical toll that “Squid Game” took on him.
“I ended up pulling six teeth out of my mouth … during the shoot,” Hwang said. “Another challenge was we weren’t able to keep the set on the soundstage for that long. Lets say, for example, that maze-like staircase, I only had three days to shoot [on it], but that set appears on Episodes 1 to 8, then I had to figure out everything in three days, so I was so nervous … I was so stressed out.”
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