‘Upload’ Director Sarah Boyd on Crafting 2 Nathan’s With Robbie Amell

Add season 3 launched two completely different variations of Robbie Amell’s character Nathan — and director Sarah Boyd was up for the problem.

“I believe [it’s] actually enjoyable and fascinating, the characters diverging,” Boyd completely informed Us Weekly about filming the third season of the Prime Video sequence. “You get to see how Nathan’s life adjustments him when he’s downloaded and [when] he goes again to actuality and actual life stuff. You additionally get to see how Nathan’s life adjustments when Ingrid’s a really completely different particular person to him and due to this fact they will have [a] very completely different form of relationship. I like watching these two relationships unfold otherwise.”

Boyd — who directed episodes 8 and 9 of season 3 — famous that Amell had no points when it got here to taking over the additional duty of portraying two separate Nathans. “Robbie was actually dialed into the variations between the 2 Nathans. He’s effectively conscious what these two Nathans are,” she stated, noting that it solely received difficult after they needed to “remind” themselves about story factors whereas capturing “out of order.”

Season 3 of Add premiered in September and reunited viewers with Nathan and Nora (Andy Allo) after Nathan was efficiently downloaded into his bodily physique — and introduced again into the true world — on the finish of season 2. As he built-in again into actuality, a second backup copy Nathan was uploaded into Lakeview after Horizon couldn’t find the unique. Whereas “authentic” Nathan continued his relationship with Nora on earth, “new” Nathan reignited his romance with ex-fiancée Ingrid (Allegra Edwards) after to being placed on a “manufacturing facility” setting, which doesn’t embody recollections of Nora.

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By the season 3 finale, it’s revealed that two Nathan’s exist, inflicting Horizon to destroy one model of the character. Whereas one Nathan survives, it’s unclear which — one thing even Boyd can’t reply.

“I used to be given the duty of constructing the visible aspect of Nathan unclear purposefully so that basically it could possibly be both one,” she informed Us. “Fortunately Nathan bodily seems to be the identical, actually from the neck up.”

The director stated that she was cautious to decide on a “grey” background for Nathan’s closing scene in order that irrespective of the place he was, he “had been put in some type of holding cell” that “may have occurred in both location.” She added that if followers “assume they’ve received the reply, they could possibly be proper or they could possibly be incorrect. It’s going to be a 50 50 probability.”

Nora and Ingrid actually will wish to know which considered one of their companions survived, as Ingrid and “new” Nathan had simply gotten engaged, whereas fan-favorite pairing Nora and “authentic” Nathan made plans for a romantic journey to Montreal.

Viewers have been ready for Nora and Nathan to get their completely satisfied ending because the sequence premiered in 2020. It’s the chemistry between Alloh and Amell — and the magic of the writers room — that Boyd credit for creating such a preferred on display screen relationship.

“I believe that [Nathan and Nora’s] likability and rooting for them is a product of each the writing and simply who Andy and Robbie are as individuals and clearly as actors,” she stated. “You simply gravitate in direction of wanting to look at them. They’re simply extremely engaging. That sounds superficial, however you lean into that couple and it’s each as a result of they’ve a variety of coronary heart and over the seasons you wish to root for them.”

Boyd added that it could possibly be the slow-burn dynamic between the couple that retains viewers coming again for extra.

“[Their love] developed slowly. There’s nobody scene that made you go, ‘Sure, that’s the scene,’” she defined. “It’s an evolution. So I simply say that my job is slightly bit extra circumscribed within the sense that I’ll simply assist them make their finest model of the scene at hand.”

Add season 3 is now streaming on Prime Video.