When we did underwater shooting, there was literally a water tank outside my office. We had an old New England set that we repurposed to turn into Pilgrim World. We had a back lot just five minutes up the road. A hundred hundred yards from my office, we had a forest outback, which is a two-minute walk from where everybody was. It was in bad disrepair when we arrived there, but it had an enormous amount of facilities for us in one concentrated area. We had an old Soviet-era film studio that was now in private hands. Honestly, I really enjoyed working in Romania. Tom Turnball: I was in Romania for seven months. A wonderful storyteller who says he can go on for days, but in our limited conversation he reveals what was behind the macabre creations on Wednesday.īelow The Line: What was it like working in Romania for Wednesday? Tom Turnbull For Turnball, the task at hand, pun intended, required an actor who had the dexterity and, yes, the emotional depth to portray Thing, which he found in Romanian magician Victor Dorobantu.īelow the Line spoke with Tom Turnball via Zoom video while he was home in Toronto. For Wednesday, Turnball turned to his fearless leader, Tim Burton, who had very specific ideas about what he wanted the visual effects to look like, and “CGI” was essentially a dirty word. He was the visual effects supervisor for such films as Greta, The Nest, and Crimes of the Future. Toronto-based Turnball and his Rocket Science VFX team have done visual effects for such TV series as Hell on Wheels, Alias Grace, The Boys, Locke & Key, Into the Badlands, and Trickster. When Morticia and Gomez enroll her at their high school alma mater, Nevermore Academy, a private school for monstrous outcasts, her supernatural adventures unfold, involving a local murder mystery. The eight-episode Netflix series, which premiered in November 2022, is the coming-of-age story of Wednesday Addams ( Jenna Ortega) , who gets expelled from school after dumping live piranhas into the pool. Working with actors to facilitate the visual effects is VFX Supervisor Tom Turnbull, who, together with the unique artistry of Burton brought the dark netherworld of the Addams family to life. Morticia, Gomez, Uncle Fester, Pugsley, Wednesday, Lurch, and, of course, Thing returned with a gothic bang. In the mind of Wednesday director Tim Burton, thee’s a strong desire to look as humanly real as possible, even when your characters are demons, monsters, and, of course, Thing.
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