‘Upload’ Director Sarah Boyd on Crafting 2 Nathan’s With Robbie Amell

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Robbie Amell (Nathan), Owen Daniels (A.I. Guy). Liane Hentscher/Prime Video

Upload season 3 launched two completely different variations of Robbie Amell’s character Nathan — and director Sarah Boyd was up for the problem.

“I think [it’s] really fun and interesting, the characters diverging,” Boyd completely instructed Us Weekly about filming the third season of the Prime Video sequence. “You get to see how Nathan’s life changes him when he is downloaded and [when] he goes back to reality and real life stuff. You also get to see how Nathan’s life changes when Ingrid’s a very different person to him and therefore they can have [a] very different kind of relationship. I love watching those two relationships unfold differently.”

Boyd — who directed episodes 8 and 9 of season 3 — famous that Amell had no points when it got here to taking on the additional duty of portraying two separate Nathans. “Robbie was really dialed into the differences between the two Nathans. He’s well aware what those two Nathans are,” she mentioned, noting that it solely obtained tough after they needed to “remind” themselves about story factors whereas taking pictures “out of order.”

Season 3 of Upload premiered in September and reunited viewers with Nathan and Nora (Andy Allo) after Nathan was efficiently downloaded into his bodily physique — and introduced again into the actual world — on the finish of season 2. As he built-in again into actuality, a second backup copy Nathan was uploaded into Lakeview after Horizon couldn’t find the unique. While “original” Nathan continued his relationship with Nora on earth, “new” Nathan reignited his romance with ex-fiancée Ingrid (Allegra Edwards) after to being put on a “factory” setting, which doesn’t embrace reminiscences of Nora.

By the season 3 finale, it’s revealed that two Nathan’s exist, inflicting Horizon to destroy one model of the character. While one Nathan survives, it’s unclear which — one thing even Boyd can’t reply.

“I was given the task of making the visual element of Nathan unclear purposefully so that really it could be either one,” she instructed Us. “Luckily Nathan physically looks the same, certainly from the neck up.”

The director mentioned that she was cautious to decide on a “gray” background for Nathan’s remaining scene in order that regardless of the place he was, he “had been put in some sort of holding cell” that “could have happened in either location.” She added that if followers “think they’ve got the answer, they could be right or they could be wrong. It’s going to be a 50 50 chance.”

Upload Season 3 Director Sarah Boyd Talks Shooting 2 Different Nathan s With Robbie Amell and. More 551 — Robbie Amell (Nathan), Andy Allo (Nora). Liane Hentscher/Prime Video

Nora and Ingrid actually will need to know which considered one of their companions survived, as Ingrid and “new” Nathan had simply gotten engaged, whereas fan-favorite pairing Nora and “original” Nathan made plans for a romantic journey to Montreal.

Viewers have been ready for Nora and Nathan to get their completely happy ending for the reason that sequence premiered in 2020. It’s the chemistry between Alloh and Amell — and the magic of the writers room — that Boyd credit for creating such a well-liked on display relationship.

“I think that [Nathan and Nora’s] likability and rooting for them is a product of both the writing and just who Andy and Robbie are as people and obviously as actors,” she mentioned. “You just gravitate towards wanting to watch them. They’re just incredibly attractive. That sounds superficial, but you lean into that couple and it’s both because they have a lot of heart and over the seasons you want to root for them.”

Boyd added that it might be the slow-burn dynamic between the couple that retains viewers coming again for extra.

“[Their love] evolved slowly. There’s no one scene that made you go, ‘Yes, that’s the scene,’” she defined. “It’s an evolution. So I just say that my job is a little bit more circumscribed in the sense that I’ll just help them make their best version of the scene at hand.”