It's such a surprise seeing some of the things in the show, there are sets which are all real buildings you can walk inside of, but, looking at it in the show they have digital extensions that give the settlements a grand scale. Then there are even places where they film on location by a lake and then splice the lake set with the settlement set and then add all the background stuff to extend it, it's so interesting.
Alot of the costumes are made of leather and wool, but the metal armour I wore was new to the show so I heard they had to rent it. I think they will most likely try and make them out of a light weight material in future because it was a bit of a nightmare wearing the stuff for 12 hours. Funny though, I felt like I was floating when I took the stuff off. We also weren't allowed to put our weapons and shields down and walk away because if we lost them we'd be in serious trouble haha
As for the swords, the swords and stuff are fake when people are fighting as it would be dangerous to use real ones, but then they would bring out the "hero" weapon which is real, but that would only be used for close ups. It was cool, the prop master would bring it out and stand by to take it away between shots.
Because of the lockdown there were limits on how many people could be out each day and a limit on how many extras they could have working for them, so yeah I think the same faces will be seen a lot. They will most likely get around it by having the background out of focus, but we'll most likely still be seen. Nobody will pay too much attention to it though with everything else going on, on the screen.
It was so much fun working on the show and I felt lucky to be one of the few hundred extras used during the filming we all got a lot of work out of it which in previous years is unheard of. Extra work is usually very sparatic.
Haha that must suck wearing that metal but I'm happy you got paid right. Ahh yeah that makes total sense. Although it's really impressive that it's not obvious that the swords are fake during fights haha I bet the training or rehearsal for it was fun too!
Thank you for sharing your experience!
I find that really interesting too, but, in fairness, even the fake ones look real. Glad you enjoyed my story. !PIZZA