Escape from dannemora schedule9/9/2023 ![]() Then we shot basically a movie schedule where we shot everything that we would shoot for the whole show in one location. I’m amazed at what David Sweat did, the engineering feat, the technical ability he had to get out, but he also was in prison for murder. That’s beside the fact of actually having this misdirect, for the first 10 minutes of the episode, that you really would not know what you’re looking at, and then when you see that, it would jar you and then hopefully confuse you as an audience, because that’s how I feel when I think about these guys. You can’t help but root for the guys getting out on some level, and I think intellectually, the audience knows they’re bad guys, but the hope was to punch you in the stomach a little bit and really confuse you. It’s definitely a misdirect, and we’re taking advantage of that moment where people are naturally going to be rooting for them to get out, because they’re the protagonists even though they’re these bad guys. I’m hoping that it catches you by surprise, and that you’re not expecting this. Do you want us to feel guilty, uncomfortable? This episode, as much as it’s about the characters, I feel like it’s at least as much about the audience and the assumptions that we’ve made over the first five episodes about these characters and our instinctive desire to root for them to escape. ![]() Ben Stiller, who directed all seven Escape at Dannemora episodes, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about this dramatic change of pace, the decision to hold back on violence until this episode and why Benicio del Toro’s acting choices can be both terrifying and also grounded. ![]()
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