Actress plays a mother determined to protect her daughter in horror series.
“The first season was very much about a mother trying to find her daughter,” says King.
Then you have this other extraordinary character, which is the winter.
Black Summer.Credit: NETFLIX
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: For the most part, the story ofBlack Summeris told in these verylong shots.
How does that affect the production process?
JAIME KING:It’s glorious, actually.
Jamie King in Black Summer..DANIEL SCHAEFER/NETFLIX
That’s how we keep everyone immersed.
It’s honestly like acting a play on film.
It keeps everyone really on their toes and active and alive and vital.
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To me, it’s just much more exciting.
It gets boring when you just have a master/over/over/wide/master/over/over.
This season is also told in this fascinating non-linear fashion.
Was that laid out in the script?
That’s very intentional, it’s in the script, that’s not done in the cutting.
But I would have to have whiteboards on the wall to remember [what was happening].
So it looked like you were trying to catch a serial killer?
It’s like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
In the first season, everything was told linearly.
How long did it take before you regretted doing that?
[Laughs] We shot it in Calgary, which was so beautiful.
We shot where they shot The Revenant, in isolated, remote, pristine mountains.
What was that like to play?
Well, for this one, I really approached it like Rose is dead, right?
So the Rose of the first season is dead.
Basically, she became a soldier.
I trained a lot.
I trained so hard for this.
I did a lot of animal movement, different techniques, like a panther, jaguar.
I studied these animals, how to move like them.
My physicality was very purposeful.
I also did a lot of research in regards to mothers who go to wars.
Do you think there will be another season of the show?
Watch the trailer for season 2 ofBlack Summerabove.
