“It was the apocalypse!” : This scene from Killer Coaster was one hell of a shoot

The series Killer Coaster is available on Amazon Prime Video from Friday, September 15, 2023. Here the story takes place in Palavas-les-Flots in 1998, in the midst of the soccer World Cup. Sandrine, a contract worker who needs some spice in her life and who thinks she’s a CIA agent, goes to a local fun…

Shooting full of excitement

Indeed, a disturbing accident occurred on the ghost train! Secretly, Sandrine infiltrates the closed environment of the fair. He meets Ivan and Carmen, two completely opposite members of this large society. Determined to uncover the truth, this unlikely trio quickly realizes that real danger lurks between the journeys…

Alexandra Lam, Audrey Lam, and Chloe Juanette star in this crazy fiction over eight 26-minute episodes. This tripartite collaboration is the first for the family of actors! It was directed by Nicolas Lange, whose work includes Derby Girl with…Chloé Jouannet, to Killer Coaster.

Speaking to AlloCiné, the director also recalls filming a particularly difficult scene in the sea in Episode 7. In this scenario, Carmen (the character played by Alexandra Lam’s daughter) moves forward in the night among the waves, moving forward and further from the beach… she is joined by Paco (Ivan Naubron) who rushes to bring her back to shore.

“Everything doesn’t go the way we want”

Nicola Lange takes us behind the scenes… or rather, the scenery hell! He explains: “The work schedule forced us to shoot this scene in November and the actors were freezing, it couldn’t be done! I had planned a very heavy cut and we actually only managed to do two shots because it was the apocalypse!“

“We mobilized the boats, the firemen… so that in the end we could shoot for 20 minutes! But it is true, it is also an aspect of our workSets the video recording perspective. Everything doesn’t go the way we want it to. So we worked it out and finally managed to edit it.“

“Today I consider the sequence quite good! At the time, our producer pushed me to keep going because I was like, “I’m going home, that’s it!”Nikola Lange admits. And then, he was right, because we managed to get something out of him. (…)“

He ends with humor: “We had underwater boxes, we were all in diving suits… but the actors were both petrified. Chloe exploded. The fireman came to take him out of the water! We stopped. We weren’t going to put the actors in danger, not too much anyway! (laughs)“A real adventure!