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The series began as four 
two hour made for TV movies.

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The success of the movies 
spawned 20 one hour episodes.

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Now in its third season LEXX 
has mutated once again.

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The making of the LEXX

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Prior to season III, lexx was shot 
in studios in both Halifax and Germany.

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It had always been ironic to me
to move from a studio in Canada

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a show which is primarily shot in the...
totally shot in studio

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to yet another studio thousands
of miles away across the ocean

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and so I thought why not to take advantage
of what Berlin has offered in terms of locations.

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Let's find some places and
break the show out of the studio

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and try to find some interesting locations
to take some of the episodes on to.

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It's a little tough for all 
the crew shoot in location

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than it is within the certain comfort
of the studio where is a lot of control

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because - as you know - there're a lot of green
screen, a lot of special effects down in the show.

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Instead of this we tended to rely on the location
to tell the magic of the visuals

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rather then creating a lot of camera effects…
you know kind of CGA effects.

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We let the location kind of to tell us where
we are and to understand that location.

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We are in the Rudesdorf near Berlin.
The very decayed location.

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We will soon start to shoot.

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We shot in a place called Rudesdorf
which was an abandoned cement factory.

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And it was abandoned in the late sixties.

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And it was pretty hard for all the cast and
all the crew, we spent two weeks shooting there.

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And snow outside, no windows and there
was no way to actually heat the place

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that was totally impossible,
out of the question…

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Scene 9 E take 4

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Brian, action

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It was a horrible miserable 
place in many ways

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it was dark, dusty so there 
the problems were…

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the crew you know inhaling 
the bad air and it was dark.

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You know the building was kind 
of falling apart but it wasn't.

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So you know under those circumstances
things go wrong, things are slow down.

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But we were very well propped

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so whatever went wrong we could handle.

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Scene 12 take 3.

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Thank you.

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Brian and Xenia action.

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Come on, this way!

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Cut!

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And quiet, please, stop this joking
around here we gotta concentrate!

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Please keep quiet!

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Giggerota… you're alive..

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Who's Giggerota?

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Underneath here… this is not
fake that is a real fire.

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So the tub was ending up to be so hot

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that the first time I wasn't sure
what temperature it had, the tub

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So I asked for warm water but
in the twelve hour I was starting to hallucinate

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because that was so hot

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So basically they set this
kind fire and the tub would boil

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And in the meantime that would also
have the dry ice effect

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and a smoke effect on top of there

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So we're dealing with an old building

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with smells and rats and bats,

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fire, smoke, dry ice, water

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costume that weight eight hundred pounds

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and I was still smiling!

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Drumsticks, drumsticks,
drumsticks, drumsticks!

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It was fun and it was challenging

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I thing Lexx for an actor
is the most incredible experience

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I'm laughing at how much fun I had on this
because I can basically do everything

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I mean, usually you're told 'less is more'....

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more is not enough on this show!

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Council time, your majesty!

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Oh, boring, boring, boring, boring!

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Here we are, chilly Thursday morning
in Fort Hahneberg

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preparing for a run-for-head shot
with Stanly Tweedle

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running from the psychopathic
homicidal maniacs

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We're like in the shadows

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Underneath this fortress there are these tunnels

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a maze of tunnels that are quite beautifully build

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this is round beautiful brickwork
in kind of a little labyrinth of tunnels

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So we spent… yes, two weeks
shooting in these tunnels

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So we achieved some interesting
visual elements with these tunnels

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It was really fun to backlight, you know…

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Play the sound in these tunnels…

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play the maze of running through

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It was wonderful cos there…
it was an amazing building

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There were these long, long tunnels
which would go up.... and then down

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into nothing, into nowhere,
just into darkness

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And a couple of shots…
we've done long shots of us walking

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just walking, walking,
walking toward the camera

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which looked amazing

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But it was just freezing.
I remember one time I meant to be on Fire

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which is very hot and I'm talking
down into a hole to Stanly

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And all I can see is my breath
coming out all the time

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And they say "Can you see it on the camera?"
"Yeah, we can…"

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Well, you can stay down there
if you want to, Stanley,

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but I have to tell you
that They never come up here

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So we had a big heater down in the hole

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and a fen blowing it up
so that I didn't have a cold breath

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Crazy

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We'll be at hell soon and we'll be
in heaven on Monday mourning

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- I feel exactly the same way.
- You do?

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Yeah. Lily, I wanna water your garden.

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Will you let me do that?

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I wanna water your garden…

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We shot in the botanical gardens
in central Berlin

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which is an old Jules Verne's architecture
of glass and steal structure

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Inside - house with these beautiful
lush tropical plants and flowers

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We were really relieved when we moved
into the botanical gardens

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It was: oh, god… it's all the way up to ten degrees
Celsius here so this is great…

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And it was a lovely location

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But unfortunately we were there
only for a week

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I'm enjoying this so much I'm starting to think
I must be a little bit autistic

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Now.. I gotta say either I'm autistic
or my character is autistic whatever...

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but being buried in the earth
for my character was...

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I think that's close to a nice
erotic sensation

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that Kai has ever... kind of...
experienced...

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And except for the misadventures
of that episode

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I think he happily would've stay there,

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seriously and very very very
determinately

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trying to decompose there,
under the earth

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Why are you buried in the dirt?

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It is the natural way of all dead things

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Jesus Christ… I almost..

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I was just wondering…

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what * was I wondering?
What was the * line?