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

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

“I feel [it’s] actually enjoyable and attention-grabbing, the characters diverging,” Boyd completely advised Us Weekly about filming the third season of the Prime Video sequence. “You get to see how Nathan’s life adjustments him when he’s downloaded and [when] he goes again to actuality and actual life stuff. You additionally get to see how Nathan’s life adjustments when Ingrid’s a really totally different individual to him and subsequently they will have [a] very totally different form of relationship. I really like watching these two relationships unfold in another way.”

Boyd — who directed episodes 8 and 9 of season 3 — famous that Amell had no points when it got here to taking up the additional accountability of portraying two separate Nathans. “Robbie was actually dialed into the variations between the 2 Nathans. He’s properly conscious what these two Nathans are,” she stated, noting that it solely obtained difficult after they needed to “remind” themselves about story factors whereas taking pictures “out of order.”

Season 3 of Add 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. Whereas “authentic” Nathan continued his relationship with Nora on earth, “new” Nathan reignited his romance with ex-fiancée Ingrid (Allegra Edwards) after to being placed on a “manufacturing unit” setting, which doesn’t embrace recollections of Nora.

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

“I used to be given the duty of creating the visible aspect of Nathan unclear purposefully so that actually it may very well be both one,” she advised Us. “Fortunately Nathan bodily seems to be the identical, actually from the neck up.”

The director stated that she was cautious to decide on a “grey” background for Nathan’s ultimate scene in order that regardless of the place he was, he “had been put in some form of holding cell” that “might have occurred in both location.” She added that if followers “suppose they’ve obtained the reply, they may very well be proper or they may very well be unsuitable. It’s going to be a 50 50 probability.”

Nora and Ingrid actually will need to know which one among their companions survived, as Ingrid and “new” Nathan had simply gotten engaged, whereas fan-favorite pairing Nora and “authentic” 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 screen relationship.

“I feel that [Nathan and Nora’s] likability and rooting for them is a product of each the writing and simply who Andy and Robbie are as individuals and clearly as actors,” she stated. “You simply gravitate in direction of wanting to look at them. They’re simply extremely engaging. That sounds superficial, however you lean into that couple and it’s each as a result of they’ve quite a lot of coronary heart and over the seasons you need to root for them.”

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

“[Their love] developed slowly. There’s nobody scene that made you go, ‘Sure, that’s the scene,’” she defined. “It’s an evolution. So I simply say that my job is a little bit bit extra circumscribed within the sense that I’ll simply assist them make their finest model of the scene at hand.”

Add season 3 is now streaming on Prime Video.