BONUS | Jet Wilkinson on Directing Episode 5
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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ANOTHER INTERVIEW BONUS EP IS HERE! This time, Mike chats with the director of Episode 5 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Jet Wilkinson! It's a lovely conversation with loads of insight and behind the scenes goodies. Topics include: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Neighbors, diner food, What is Love, wetness, the rhythm of the story, the bell, Adam Copeland being cool, and more!
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| 0:38.3 | The What's good. |
| 1:02.5 | Thank you so much for tuning into this interview episode of the News Olympian. |
| 1:05.9 | My name is Mike Schubert. |
| 1:06.7 | I'm the titular News Olympian, and I'm here with the director of episodes 5, 6, and 8, the finale of season 1 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It's Jett Wittgen-How is it going? |
| 1:17.2 | It's going great. Thank you so much. It's been exciting seeing the episodes going to air and everyone enjoying the show so much. |
| 1:22.9 | Yeah. At the time of recording this, episode 5 has released and it is getting much deserved praise. Episode six has not yet come out, but I have seen it with my screener access. And it, I think, will get lots of praise. And then obviously the finale is the finale, and that is just so fantastic. So what does it like for you to be in this situation now where some people have seen it? You're getting some feedback, you know what's to come, how does that feel? |
| 1:45.3 | I'm really super excited because, you know, we wrapped on this at the end of 2022, early 23. |
| 1:52.8 | So it's been a long time coming and I've been so excited to wait and see myself what all the |
| 1:58.3 | visual effects look like. |
| 1:59.8 | And yeah, I just really was excited for |
| 2:01.6 | the kids because they worked so hard for so long. I just, I'm so happy to see them getting |
| 2:07.1 | all the praise that they much deserve. Yeah. Now, was this your first time working with kid actors |
| 2:13.4 | primarily in the main roles? I had done some IMDB deep diving. Actually, I'd just come off doing Avatar, The Last Airbender. |
| 2:20.2 | Right. |
| 2:20.7 | Yeah, so that was all sort of child actors as well. |
| 2:25.0 | Gordon, who played Ang, was 12 as well at the time. |
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