The series began as four two hour made for TV movies.
The success of the movies spawned 20 one hour episodes.
Now in its third season LEXX has mutated once again.
The making of the LEXX
There was some particularly satisfying falling
at the very beginning
where Halifax rigger
got a very nice body rig.
You’re posited from two lines in the middle
and so it gives a great deal of freedom in falling
and kind of tumbling and parachuting at stuff.
And that was nice physical stuff very satisfying
to do and to be able to do.
Am I too low? Lift me up...
That good?
Now the guys in audience will probably identify with this.
Imagine having somebody grabs you close to a delicate area
and holding on very-very tightly for like two or three hours.
You know, a lot of vaseline, a lot of baby powder...
It’s not really that much of a problem you know.
You react to the immediate situation.
Yeah, I spent some time under water
with about thirty five pounds of weight on my body
so, I would sink like a [....]. One of the satisfying things is
what you do then is you work it out very-very technically
step by step and just execute.
And so you do it and then you stop doing it and say
“ok, I’ve done that, I did every step just right, it worked out fine”.
And you kind of go... “oh, that’s a thrill! That is fun!”
But it’s all delayed all the fun is sort of delayed.
We're going to have to start with a little bit of pain...
I'm not good with pain!
We tried it with that actually on the nipple...
oh, no no no no no!..
And then what we did was actually the make up girls made nipples
that were likely larger out of latex and that was fine.
They glued them on that part was fine... that was fine...
but when they came off... um... you know.. It was harassing I tell you...
One of the episodes that I directed – Gondola –
is entirely shot in the... in this gondola.
The gondola was great. That was really the finest piece
that we designed this year.
We went through about thirty or forty changes
and different design ideas,
thousands of drawings and sketches and we wracked our brains for weeks
finally come up with something that was rude but at the same time was elegant.
But also would work practically.
The ship is a whole was a... I think it was good in the air.
I think that... Think that... probable very nice to look at.
You know I got mixed with... I’ve got conflicted relationship with gondola
I spent a lot of time in there with the hot lights,
the sand blowing...
This was a middle of summer down in Halifax.
You can’t have the air condition turned on because it makes too much noise when you're shooting
So it was hot and close. You get to know people real well in that situation.
Jesus Christ... I almost...
I was just wondering...
what * was I wondering? What was the * line?
Subtitles: Lunatic, Bankolya.