Make up a dance. Whatever comes to the top of your head — Nathan to Nathan.
Robbie Amell’s downloaded Nathan meets backup Nathan in the latest season 3 episode of BC-filmed digital afterlife comedy Upload on Prime Video.
Upload is set in the near future, when people can pay to be digitally uploaded to a virtual afterlife like the pricey Lakeview resort.
Episode director Dave Rogers said he was inspired by Michael J. Fox playing four people in a Back to the Future: Part II shot.
“Robbie and Robbie — they had this great chemistry [laughs]. I didn’t have to say much. He played both of them subtly different. There’s posture things and reactions. — Dave Rogers to The Hollywood Reporter
Basically, [Robbie Amell]’s wearing his real-life Nathan clothes with body double [Jason McKinnon in backup Nathan clothes], and then [Robbie]has to go change his clothes for Nathan backup. While he’s doing that, we’re queuing up what was the best take.
Then we have the body double standing where the [downloaded Nathan] was and [Robbie’s] acting [as the backup], but now we’re playing back his own dialog to him, so the timing is consistent when we get to the edit bay. I was amazed just watching on set, where we had a mixer and stuff like that, seeing that we can overlap [the performances]. It’s like getting two people, even though it’s one person playing the same role. — Dave Rogers to The Hollywood Reporter
Upload season 3:
Episodes: 8.
Working title: Luddwig.
Vancouver filming dates: August 15 2022 – November 02 2022
Showrunner: Greg Daniels.
Cast: Robbie Amell, Andy Allo, Allegra Edwards, Kevin Bigley, Zainab Johnson, Owen Daniels.
Robbie Amell as Nathan X 2, Andy Allo as Nora, Allegra Edwards as Ingrid, Kevin Bigley as Luke, Zainab Johnson as Aleesha, Owen Daniels as A.I. Guy.
Filming in Vancouver:
Robbie Amell and Andy Allo at the start of filming season 3 in Vancouver:
Real life played by Yaletown.
Nathan meets Nathan dance.