Now that doesn't mean they actually had to do it by stage magic, but we had to make their movie magic look a little less good so that it would look a little more real like stage magic.Įlizabeth Marvel as Celeste and David Arquette as Monty in Mrs. It had to look like something that could be done by stage magic. But to make that work, it couldn't be TV magic. The idea that Simone starts off as a compliant child and ends up as a magic-resentful adult is very interesting. As you watch each episode, each scene even, you don't know what the hell is going on because the reality behind it keeps shifting. She couldn't have really done that? No, she must have done this." You're back and forth in that, which is exactly what they're doing with this show. You're always going, "Wow, that's amazing. So you're pushed and pulled constantly by a magic act. You see something that looks like it's impossible, you know it can't be. To me, magic is this uncomfortable form in which you don't know what's going on. It should not seem like a make-believe magic act that somebody could do in a movie, but couldn't do it on stage. a cheesy magic act, it was very important to them that the cheesy magic act should seem real. So when the time came to do this show and they realized that what they had was a show whose central metaphor. They'll just say, "Well, if we do the special effect, we'll call it a magic trick, and that'll be that." This conversation has been edited for clarity and/or brevity.įirst of all, not every movie or TV show will bring on a magic consultant. Davis, the one movie that gets the magician experience right, and why AI couldn’t hope to recreate the year’s wackiest sci-fi show. Teller spoke to Inverse about the complexity of Mrs. This quest leads her to a heist of her mother’s new company, which brings her to twist after twist. His work as magic consultant provides the element of realism that grounds the illusions.Įpisode 6 of the series, now streaming on Peacock, follows Simone as she attempts to figure out what happened to her father after he attempted “The Lazarus Shroud,” his most dangerous trick yet. Davis paints an image of magicians that is equally loving and satirical. His knowledge is so deep, and his passion so obvious, that it’s no wonder why Mrs. It’s almost a shame we never see Teller speak because listening to him talk about magic is enrapturing. Jake McDorman as Wiley and Betty Gilpin as Sister Simone in Mrs. It’s not an easy sleight, but because she's one of those actors who will go to any degree to do the thing.” That's what she does when she's in the backseat of the car. “I said, ‘I think you should really learn how to do a card production,’” Teller tells Inverse, holding up his hand and making a card appear out of thin air, like Scott Lang in Ant-Man. When he eventually asked to be reminded of the question, he reveals the one trick he asked her to learn. “Has there ever been a better actor on TV?” Teller gushes, before comparing Gilpin’s grounded performance to Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. Famous for being completely silent on stage, Teller made the rare exception to speak to Inverse about any and all magic questions - including the show’s greatest magic trick, star Betty Gilpin. In order to show this clever and secretive group and their art correctly, co-showrunner Tara Hernandez went right to the expert: Raymond Teller, of the magic duo Penn and Teller. But from the moment we meet Sister Simone, she has one nemesis she hates more than all: magicians. Davis takes on a lot of lofty subjects, mainly artificial intelligence and religion.
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