Full spoilers comply with for The Umbrella Academy season 4‘s remaining episode.
The Umbrella Academy‘s important forged 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.
Chatting with TechRadar forward of the Netflix collection’ fourth and remaining season being launch, a few of its stars revealed that they solely realized how it will finish once they acquired the previous few pages of the finale’s script. These pages have been purposefully held again by showrunner Steve Blackman, who wished the group’s full feelings to play out in actual time as they shot mentioned sequence, which was additionally the final scene that they filmed as a staff.
“That was the ultimate scene we shot as a gaggle,” Tom Hopper, who performed Luther Hargreeves, informed me once I requested in the event that they filmed that sequence at the start or the top of season 4’s taking pictures schedule. “We had pickup pictures or little filler issues to do just a few days afterwards, however that was the very last thing we filmed collectively. Steve did that on objective as a result of he wished 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 recent, emotionally for us.”
The scene in query, which you’ll 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 called The Cleanse from destroying one more alternate universe they time-travel to, but additionally 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 major forged saying goodbye to one another, their characters, and the ‘Brellies’, i.e. the collective identify 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 will. 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 once we got these previous few pages,” Castañeda revealed. “After which, you recognize, you name or message Steve and you are like, ‘…However why?’. So, you need to 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 holding issues on lockdown, and he made us excited by holding us in a relentless 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 additionally 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 best 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 possibly can study extra about why that is the case in my spoiler-light evaluate 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.
