Spoilers for Westworld Season 3 Episode 4 abound in the following interview. Cameron has a history with Westworld. I recently had the chance to speak with Cameron over the phone about his work on the series, and while you can read the first portion of our interview right here βin which we discuss his work as a DP on the show and crafting the visual language for Season 3βnow is when I get to share what he had to say about directing Episode 4.
The cinematographer who shot the pilot returned to help set a new visual language for the HBO series' ambitious third season. Cameron also discussed working with Ed Harris on some very difficult William scenes, and bringing it full circle with the closing scene. Check out the full interview below and click here to read my full recap of the episode. How did you as the director go about juggling the idea that every host is Dolores while keeping that reveal under wraps until the end of the episode?
Having Tessa Thompson, Tommy Flanagan, and Hiroyuki Sanada all revealing themselves as Dolores in the episode, there was a lot of discussion of how we wanted it to feel, how we wanted it to converge. I think we stuck to the script pretty well, and when we went to the edit I think the final tweak that Jonathan and I did was to try to tighten up the moment of the reveals between all the characters.
Outside of that, we didn't change much, but it was a big question of like, what aspects of these characters actually have the aspects of the Dolores character? Are we revealing that, what is that, what's the sensitivity to it? I spoke with Jonathan at length to really simplify a couple of nuances with each character, to tonally make the reference to that character being Dolores during the reveal, but to keep it very subtle and not expand on that too much.
The interesting thing to me was not only directing it, but once the actors realized what the reveal was, I think they were all probably, outside of Tommy I guess because he's new to the series, but they were all very, very also challenged by, what is this reveal going to be? What was it going to be like?
