![]() If it’s a Monday, Wednesday or Thursday and the call sheet for the day is not marked with an intimate scene, the cast and anyone who interacts with the cast on a regular basis, from the director to the script supervisor get PCR COVID testing, says Farrell. ![]() As soon as we yell ‘cut,’ it’s masks up, six feet, separate.” “I didn’t want to tell them to do something that as soon as we yell ‘cut’ we tell them not to do. Wanting to keep people’s unmasked exposure to each other limited also meant Okoro Carroll told her cast that there would be no improvised hugging or kissing in scenes, and she only included “moments of a hug or a kiss in a script if it was absolutely integral to the storyline.” Anything that breaches a six-foot distance between cast members is considered an “intimate scene” and warrants a rapid COVID test on the day of shooting. But the teams won’t be playing in front of empty stands: the show is using extra footage from the crowds in the first two seasons’ games, the showrunner continues, to make it still feel like a regular football season. “There’s going to be a lot of halftime, on their way to the bathroom conversations this season so we can put them on our stages instead,” Okoro Carroll previews. This is also why the shots of the crowd watching the games in the third season will no longer feature characters having important conversations, surrounded by extras. The goal was not to expose anyone to each other when they didn’t have to. “If we caught anything on camera we could paint it out ,” she says. One mask was flesh-colored so they could wear it under their helmet while in the scene. Each person had their own “individual sanitation bag,” she adds, which included sanitizer, as well as multiple masks. So “effectively what we created was a football bubble, modeled after what the NBA did.”ĭuring the quarantine period, the more than 50 players and experts the show uses to make up the various teams were tested routinely - four days a week, Okoro Carroll says, both during practice and filming. “Football’s full contact socially distanced football works for drills at practice but not for games and it’s their senior year so it just felt crazy if we weren’t addressing COVID on the show,” Okoro Carroll says. ![]() (Productions that have resumed in Vancouver have also been following the two-week quarantine rule before filming, as mandated by the Canadian government, but “All American” films in Los Angeles, which as of press time has no such mandate.) ![]() Unlike most every other production, though, “All American” block-scheduled its third season so that all of the football scenes from the first half of the season could be shot over one period of time, with its football players, coaches and specialists quarantining for a full two weeks in a hotel first. When they are on their soundstage, they also have sanitation specialists who ensure “every horizontal surface and high-contact area” gets thoroughly wiped down at night, and who also use “foggers with a solution approved by WarnerMedia” to spray the inside of all of the trailers, Farrell tells Variety. Like almost every production that has resumed amid the pandemic, “All American” has now added a team of Medcor health specialists to their call sheets, including Pete Farrell, a COVID compliance officer, as well as a COVID liaison, a scheduler for COVID testing and an assistant to this new health department. Football scenes, on the other hand, took much more planning. “We started writing the season end of February - I rolled directly from Season 2 into Season 3 - so by the time the pandemic hit and it was like it was here to hang out for a while, we went back and did our COVID pass on and flagged scenes with too many extras in it.”įor scenes that were originally set at a party or otherwise large social gathering, she shares, it was easy enough to pivot to something smaller because the heart of those were always the private moments between core characters such as Spencer himself (played by Daniel Ezra). “The biggest thing is we are a young adult show that loves to throw parties - homecoming, everybody’s birthday - and now it’s just like, ‘Uh uh, what three people are getting together to have coffee and a chat?'” showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll tells Variety. ![]() But being produced in a time of the coronavirus while not addressing it comes with its own unique challenges. Since that time in his life was never dramatically halted by a deadly pandemic, and since the CW’s “ All American” is inspired by his life (he is also a co-producer on the drama series), the show won’t be writing COVID-19 into its upcoming third season. Former NFL linebacker Spencer Paysinger’s senior year in high school as the captain of the Beverly Hills High School football team was an essential one to kick-start his professional football career. ![]()
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