During an interview with Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Gina Carano (Cara Dune), and Carl Weathers (Greef Carga), SYFY WIRE learnt that Taika Waititi directed the show sitting sprawled out on a couch in his pajamas.
SYFY WIRE sat down with the chief cast — Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Gina Carano (Cara Dune), and Carl Weathers (Greef Carga) — and all three had plenty of stories to tell about the wide variety of personalities they worked with on The Mandalorian. The trio said it was a great experience, but there were definitely some quirky shenanigans.
Taika Waititi, in particular, had an unusual directing style, according to Carl Weathers.
“We’re really fortunate that we had a group of directors who all brought something really special to the table. Deborah [Chow], in particular, was pretty amazing because it was huge stuff she was doing, but Taika had his wild sense of humor,” Weathers said. “He played music while we were doing the scenes, which gave it its own fun vibe, and then he would show up in pajamas sometimes and full slippers. I mean, it was crazy. Wait, how about the couch?”
Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano laughed at that point, nodding. Not only did Waititi direct from a couch, but he had lava lamps to adorn it as well.
“Where Bryce [Dallas Howard] would sit on a box,” Weathers continued, “Taika would sit sprawled out on a couch in pajamas.”
Weathers said one of his favorite things to do afterward was to watch the episodes and unwrap who had directed what, and he could spot the specific energies of the individual personalities in each scene of The Mandalorian.
Read the interview in full here.
