![]() ![]() The result is a giddily gross scene that’s viscous with blood and spit but tonally tragic, with two men in love with the same woman trying to assert their masculinity in a toxically destructive way. Yet the throw-down between clothed, mild-mannered optometrist BJ ( Tim Baltz) and nude, braggadocious guitarist Stephen (Stephen Schneider) required both precise technicality to keep the actors and their stunt doubles safe, and nuanced performances from Baltz and Schneider to communicate the emotional devastation of their brawl, which pushes the normally kind BJ to “become the monster,” Watson says. ![]() The Righteous Gemstones packs action sequences into each season, entangling the titular televangelist family and their absurdly outsize personalities in vehicular chases and shoot-outs. There is squirming in the fight, and punching, kicking, brass knuckles, and broken furniture too. “Knowing that I went to Catholic school, I think he just wanted to see me squirm.” I had a technical problem, and when I came on, he said, ‘I was just telling everyone that the person in this collective who should direct the naked-man fight is Jonathan Watson,’” Watson says with a laugh. “I came onto a Zoom late when Danny McBride was discussing assignments. He had experience filming nudity before on the series Future Man, but the violent climax of “For Out of the Heart Comes Evil Thoughts” was a unique task that took months to coordinate and plan - and not exactly one Watson asked for. ![]() What prosthetic genitalia would need to be crafted? Which camera angles could hide the swap between the nude stuntman and the nude actor he was doubling? Would the stunt double need to be circumcised? Watson groans good-naturedly remembering these conversations. Spoilers follow for the sixth episode of the third season of The Righteous Gemstones, “For Out of the Heart Comes Evil Thoughts,” which premiered on HBO on July 16.įor nearly a year, The Righteous Gemstones director Jonathan Watson was asking questions that only a lengthy fight scene in which one of the combatants is fully naked can inspire. ![]()
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