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bust. Our sculptor, Penko Platikanov,
experimented for weeks to carve a
high-fidelity version of Irving out of
watermelon but failed to get it detailed
enough as the high water content
made it turn to mush. Next, he tried
to make it out of foam. I was skeptical
that foam could look realistic, but he
said come back tomorrow. The next
day I was blown away. He had achieved
a real watermelon look from foam and
lacquer. I couldn't believe how good it
looked.
And the goats. Oh, the goats!
Mammalians Nurturable was one of the
first new sets we shot for Season 2.
Covering a large portion of a Brooklyn
golf course with the largest free-
standing tent in the country (with no
support poles), Jeremy designed a
severed floor "room" hanging lights
off the tent grid and building in walls
around the perimeter. In our story, the
room serves as a sanctuary for the
goats, and it required actual goats and
lots of them. We wanted the goats
to be on the smaller side, babies and
pygmies. Our amazing property team
(who are incredible and believe so
deeply in the work) and I spent a week
setting up an annex pen in the golf
course adjacent to our set. We had
to reinforce the eight-foot chain-link
fence—none of us really knew how
