Full spoilers observe for The Umbrella Academy season 4‘s remaining episode.
The Umbrella Academy‘s principal solid have been saved in the dead of night concerning the present’s tear-jerking remaining scene till simply two days earlier than they filmed it.
Talking to TechRadar forward of the Netflix collection’ fourth and remaining season being launch, a few of its stars revealed that they solely realized how it could finish once they obtained the previous few pages of the finale’s script. These pages have been purposefully held again by showrunner Steve Blackman, who needed the group’s full feelings to play out in actual time as they shot stated sequence, which was additionally the final scene that they filmed as a staff.
“That was the ultimate scene we shot as a bunch,” Tom Hopper, who performed Luther Hargreeves, informed me once I requested in the event that they filmed that sequence at first or the tip of season 4’s taking pictures schedule. “We had pickup pictures or little filler issues to do a number of days afterwards, however that was the very last thing we filmed collectively. Steve did that on function as a result of he needed to these feelings to be actual. He did not give us that scene’s pages till a few days earlier than we shot it, so it was all fairly contemporary, emotionally for us.”
The scene in query, which you’ll be able to learn extra about in my article explaining The Umbrella Academy season 4’s ending, sees the titular, dysfunctional superteam make the final word sacrifice to avoid wasting the universe for the ultimate time. Certainly, the Hargreeves siblings die to not solely cease the monstrous, blob-like entity often known as The Cleanse from destroying one more alternate universe they time-travel to, but in addition to revive the unique timeline. That is the one which existed earlier than they have been born and was thrown into disarray upon their supernatural births on October 1, 1989.
Understandably, taking pictures the ultimate scene was an extremely poignant second, with the present’s main solid saying goodbye to one another, their characters, and the ‘Brellies’, i.e. the collective title for followers of the collection. With little time to course of how one of many finest Netflix exhibits was going to finish, The Umbrella Academy‘s stars all had totally different reactions once they found how it could. Certainly, David Castañeda, who performs Diego Hargreeves, even thought Blackman was taking part in a prank on them till the actor walked on set for the ultimate time.
“All of us came upon after we got these previous couple of pages,” Castañeda revealed. “After which, you realize, you name or message Steve and you are like, ‘…However why?’. So, you must be actually good at memorizing your traces since you solely have 48 hours to take action. Secretly, you are hoping to get to the set and see that they’ve modified a scene like that. They usually hadn’t – it was the identical scene! So, yeah, all of us die.”
“It was all a giant shock,” Ritu Arya, who performs Lila Pitts, added. “Steve’s superb at conserving issues on lockdown, and he made us excited by conserving us in a continuing state of suspense main as much as the ultimate few days of filming. He left it actually late to inform us how the collection would finish, which was enjoyable but in addition very irritating as a result of we did not have a lot time to course of the bittersweet nature of it. However I believe it was the fitting factor to do, ultimately, because it elevates the emotional stakes of that scene.”
Emotionally impactful as that sequence is, it is not the superpowered ending that I hoped for. You may be taught extra about why that is the case in my spoiler-light assessment of The Umbrella Academy season 4, or see why Castañeda thought the fan-favorite present was “going to bomb” forward of the primary season’s February 2019 debut on the world’s finest streaming service.
