Jason Ralph and Olivia Taylor Dudley.
Harry Potter for adults? With levitating sex? Twenty-somethings at a secret college for magic party like any other students but with something extra. Syfy’s new fantasy series The Magicians turned the University of British Columbia’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre into Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy in upstate New York on Friday, pairing the sun-burnt grass green. Based on a trilogy of books by Lev Grossman, The Magicians follows Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) as he leaves Brooklyn to attend the Brakebills College where he and his friends learn how to practice magic and then travel to the magic land of Fillory. Other Physcial Kids include Quentin’s friend Eliot (Hale Appleman), Alice (Oliva Taylor Dudley), Julia (Stella Maeve), Margo/known as Janet in books (Summer Bishil) and Penny (Arjun Gupta). Among their teachers are Dean Fogg (Rick Worthy) and Professor Sunderland (Anne Dudek). Other characters: Eliza the paramedic (Esme Bianco) and Penny’s love interest Kady (Jade Tailor).
I watched a rehearsal of a bruised Jason Ralph as Quentin Coldwater (Jason Ralph) and Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley) leaving the college where they are joined by fellow Physical Kid Eliot (Hale Appleman).
Rehearsal with Jason and Olivia Taylor Dudley in warm coats.
Related: The Magicians Films Oliva Taylor Dudley in Gastown’s Trounce Alley.
More rehearsal out of warm coats.
That’s a lot of stunt mats.
Fountain water coloured blue and statue added
Grass painted green.
Burnt-out grass painted green.
#UBC turns in Brakebills University for filming of @SyfyTV‘s new series, The Magicians @yvrshoots pic.twitter.com/H8gq7gyRcv
— Alfred Hermida (@Hermida) August 14, 2015
#UBC campus transformed by fantasy series The Magicians. No signs of “magical pedagogy” @yvrshoots pic.twitter.com/03XI5IWbHx
— Ann Britton Campbell (@DearAnnTravels) August 14, 2015
@yvrshoots Filming at UBC todayy pic.twitter.com/GZGMKZO93a
— Sabrina Choi (@sabbiechoi) August 12, 2015