All language subtitles for Sensitive Skin s02e00 Behind the Scenes.eng

(Piano instrumental)

Living room is
this way, right?

Jesus Christ.

Season two of Sensitive Skin is
very bold.

Very very bold.

(Unclear)

Season two continues.

With a new perspective.

Davina.

Season two is really about

her discovering her own
independence.

And in a very funny way because

it's comedy.

My husband said no
because he had taste.

It's about people facing
challenges.

And trying to find out what is

the best way to live.

Leave me alone!

What I love about this show
is it's packed full of heart.

It's very real.

I just look at it as
a slice of life.

Did you ever tell Roger about it?

- No you wouldn't!
- Should I?

- No!
- In the first series she is

sort of a passenger to what
is going on in her life.

Our challenge was to make
Davina much more proactive.

Old Sensitive Skin is shed

and new skin will start to appear.

I am going insane.

Davina has had big
things happen in her life

in season one.

If you want to look younger

- why not just get a haircut?
- Excuse me?

The place I call home,
you know, the one I grew up in,

- you sold to buy this cyber loft.
- Man: How is your mother?

In and out. It's her fifth stroke.

I don't feel crazy, I mean,
I have been depressed lately.

Oh, so have I. And I don't know why.

She's lost in season one and
she looks for solutions in

- other people.
- Davina, what are you looking

for that I can't give you? Come home.

I'll change. (Groaning)

- Davina: It's not you.
- Man: Okay, who is it?

- It's me...?
- It's me.

(Groaning) It is me.

I would do anything for
one more day with you.

- Anything.
- Season two is really her

dealing with the fallout of her
choices and her going through a

process of becoming a complete person.

We decided to start eight
months after the last episode ended

so you see her still
trying to deal with regret and guilt.

Should I move?

Maybe I should, I...
I just can't figure it out.

She was really more alone than
she ever has been which is

sort of what she felt she wanted,
strangely.

- I just wanted...
- Look over the garden wall?

- See what's on the other side?
- That's what she wanted, this

independence, well now she's got it,
so now she has to deal with it.

So it's kind of a, be careful of

- what you wish for thing.
- She is sort of forced to be

more introspective in season two.

She is forced to both understand
who she is on the inside and

reengage with the world.
When I sign those papers, I,

I'm going to be homeless.

In the BBC2 version, Davina

moved to a houseboat, but it was

in the city of London, that is

very much a way of life there.

But that doesn't exist in Toronto.

Man (on phone):
Would you meet me at the ferry docks?

Ferry docks?

- Man (on phone): I am on the Island.
- Sam introduces her to Toronto

- Island and a houseboat there.
- Oh my God.

- Nice, huh?
- And she walks in, and it's

this invitation, really, to live there.

And to start to get more of a
perspective of what her life has

- been like on the mainland.
- Do you want to see the view?

So we are literally giving
her that view of where she was

and hopefully a new perspective
of how she can change that.

The city that we got to know

so well in season one is now

a faint memory in the distance

over a body of water but it is

very very much there.

Toronto is a character in this.

I know the skyline but I
had never seen it from that

perspective. It was truly beautiful.

Season one, we were trying
to capture that sort of new

Toronto phenomenon, those condo
buildings that are popping up

everywhere.
They have a very distinctive look,

glass, and white wall,
sterile structures, and last season we

made a point of avoiding greenery,
but this year we

- embraced it.
- This season is more sort of soft

and organic, natural in appearance,
moody, stormy kind

of lighting, other times you get
very brilliant luminous summer

- days, that feel.
- The show feels really

different, which will be
really fun for the viewers.

I'm still getting used to the
idea that life isn't going to,

- you know, happen anymore.
- This a very non-charted

journey that Davina goes through
is very reflective of a journey

that one of us would go through.
That's what's really compelling

about her and Kim's performance,
is much much more developed in

season two.
It's a show about inner feelings

and you need a performer that's
brave enough to go through it

- and Kim has done that.
- She doesn't even know her own

name. Davina!

What makes Davina compelling
is her humanity, I guess, her

vulnerability.
And she's trying to figure it

- out just like everybody else is.
- So why are you here?

Oh, well, I don't know. Curiosity.

Along with aging and the
anxiety that comes with that,

her feelings of guilt,
having had the affair, her separation

from her son Orlando, who's mad at her.

- She has a lot to cope with.
- I'm sorry I'm such a royal

- pain in the ass.
- In a strange way, you know,

Davina's the centre of this
whole world that's changing

around her.
Her life is evolving and she's

trying to keep up or
trying to take control.

I don't know how this works.
We again have been faithful to

what Hugo brilliantly wrote,
but we've made it our own.

Look, I shouldn't really come
here to talk to you about

- vaginas.
- Alright.

I am proud of this season.
I think it came out of genuine

collaboration between me and
Bob and Kim, and we all brought

- different things.
- Alright, that's good.

Don McKellar and I outlined
the entire series roughly and

then brought in these three
wonderful writers... Rosa Laborde

and Susan Coyne and Lynn Coady...
And they did a wonderful job.

- This is going to work!
- Coincidentally, each are in a

- different decade of their lives.
- I was really excited to be

working with three women
to give Davina a voice.

We got together at the very

beginning and we talked about

the themes that we really felt

connected to as a story of a

woman at a certain age.

Nobody tells you about this part.

We were able to share stories

from our own experiences to kind

of bring in to the world of Davina.

She's having to discover who she

is again in completely different
circumstances.

The universe is at work in this series.

There seems to be a lesson there
for Davina that she just has to learn.

Davina, you've got to stop

wasting your time looking for
something that isn't there.

- You mean meaning?
- Every one of our returning

characters have major
challenges and major twists.

(Laughing) Oh, Christ,
I can't take this anymore.

What?

Her husband is changing.
She doesn't recognize her life,

and so Veronica has to find herself.

You just project all of
your own bullshit on to me.

- Amazing, it's my fault.
- Last year it was young Evil Knievel,

and now it's an aging Knight Rider.

It's the confusion and the
hardness and the jealousy is

still there, but you see more of
the cracks and you feel for her

- much more.
- You know I'm the one person

in the world who will
always tell you the truth.

She can bring out that
fragile yet aggressive persona

that really charges the scenes.
I love watching Kim and Joanna

- do that stuff together.
- Davina: Let's dig into the

past, shall we?
Have a little chat about the thing.

Put two gals in a room and

let them figure it out,
you know, as sisters.

It's terrific.

I'm not sure I'm really a scarf person.

I'm a scarf person.

He's burst upon his family
and friends as a new person.

He's released the part of
him that was an asshole.

A true artist empties
himself of all things.

Unfortunately he's also
answering charges of fraud.

You make me feel really, really alone.

Well, that'll be good practice,
won't it, for when you

(Unclear). He has an artist's soul.

It's a really nice season for
Roger because he makes a very

noble sacrifice that shows
his sort of true colours.

- Davina: You're praying now.
- Mm-hmm.

- Uh, to...
- To God.

After a two-month binge drinking phase,
I discover Jesus Christ

and I become a born again Christian.

It brings me out of my
rut and I meet a girl.

Hello! (Laughing)

Nick, he has great comic timing,
and he's wonderful.

I'm very happy this year
that he's clean shaven.

I felt in the first year he
looked too old to be my son.

I'm sorry. It's one of these shows where

you can really kind of weave
in the heart and the comedy.

This show really takes a lot of
left turns, and it's really interesting.

If you're right, you can

gloat, and if you're wrong,
you can shut the hell up.

They're old friends.
He knows exactly what buttons to

- push with her.
- Can we just skip ahead to the

part where this is a funny story?

Sam is one of the most important
people in her life, a great ally.

You're my best friend.

This divorce, it's been a big,
open wound for him.

Davina has been the only
solid thing in his life.

- Sam!
- In season two, Sam has a

chance to heal and move forward himself.

Moving is a journey.
It doesn't matter if it's across

town or across the hall.
And aging is like a, like a

- guru.
- Theodore is evolved to become

Davina's confidant
and real estate agent.

Half a dozen agents went
through this unit a day, and I

- guarantee they each did a line.
- We really wanted to fly with

his character, and Theodore
becomes an extremely important

person in Davina's life.
He becomes her therapist, basically.

He, I feel, out of all the

characters, is the only adult,
somebody who sort of has a

- worldview.
- Your mind would never create

something you can't have.
Your mind is not an asshole.

He's probably the realest
character on this show.

He's not trying to impress anybody.

- He's just who he is.
- Let's just get this over with

and we'll smoke a joint or something,
alright.

That's part of the reason why
Davina feels she can put her

- trust in him.
- You should... you need to take

- my class.
- It's great to have Mary back.

She, I think,
is the Samantha of Sensitive Skin.

She's bigger than life,
bolder than life.

(Groaning) You can do better than that,

Davina, come on. (Shouting)

Sarah is trying to get women

to grasp their power and to

speak from, you know, the depths

of their uterus.

Dig down deep enough and find,
find that...

(Shouting) You need a brassy person to

play that, and there's no
one more brassy than Mary.

You think so? You ready?

Up, up! Oh!

There's my girl, there's my girl!

One of the true stars of this season,
William, played by Pixel

- the dog.
- I was very adamant William

become more of the story of
a bond and also a healing.

(Whistling) Willie?

Her investment in this dog is
really one of the clearest arcs

in the whole series.
They become this team that's

going to survive whatever they face.

- I see you've brought William.
- You don't mind, do you?

She enjoys Kim to the moon and back.

They really have a beautiful

bond and both of them have big

hearts, so I think that's why

they get along so well.

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Pixel was our number
two on the call sheet.

He did more days, I think,
than anyone else other than Kim.

We're amazed by this animal.
I'm not entirely convinced it's

a dog, frankly.

There's a great comfort in
working in this environment, and

it's instant. One of the things that's

critical is that Don
McKellar is still directing.

Working with Don, it's a joy.
We have a shorthand.

The direction that I've got from him,
it grounds me in a very

- secure place before a take.
- Okay, cut.

And that's a really good
feeling when you have that

communication with your director.

Don allows for invention;
he welcomes it.

And he has a kind of unfailing
ear as to how an episode will

build, and he keeps you in the music.

He does these really long,
beautiful Steadicam takes, and

sometimes you get it in
one take and he moves on.

He's just got a great eye for it.

The tone is very kind of mixed,
and he's excellent at that.

You couldn't ask for a better director.

What is happening here? Is this real?

- It can't be real.
- The delusions in the first six

episodes were about characters
outside of herself talking to

Davina, warning her or
encouraging her sometimes to not

- do the most healthy thing.
- I'd go for it.

One of the things (Unclear)
really wanted to do this season

is demonstrate how
memory becomes torturous.

I'm not completely convinced
that my mind isn't an asshole.

And this season, all the
delusions have been focused on Al.

He becomes her delusional life.

- Al.
- She's experiencing bigger

emotions, something more obsessive.

- Oh Christ, Al!
- All the things that she's

- afraid of, Al tells her.
- You're just not thinking

clearly. It's...

- darling!
- It's kind of a poetic license

to still keep the audience
in touch with what's going on

inside of her in the form of Al,
being encouraging, shaming,

being loving, sweet, playful,
but it's really her id, it's

- really Davina.
- I'm really trying to reengage

- with reality.
- I think good storytelling takes

you in a direction that you
didn't expect, and what I really

love about half hour comedy now,
it comes out of the given

circumstances and the characters' flaws.

That's the stories that I like to hear,
that I like to see.

They reflect more of
what's going on in life.

Sam: Should I be worried about you?

These are big,
dramatic periods in people's life that's

not really explored very much. (Sighing)

We hope that we show
Davina as being empowered.

Oh, talk about a transformation!

(Gasping) It's very dramatic.

These are life and death issues,
but it's also hilariously funny.

Who knows where that penis has been,
right?

It really came together in
a quite a unique statement.

Don't worry. It's just skin.

The courage with which Kim
approached the work really set

the bar very high for an honesty...

- This cannot be healthy!
- She comes to terms with the

crisis that got her into this situation,
which is what is her

life about,
and how to choose for herself.

- The themes are very universal.
- Fuck off!

We met them with things simmering,
and now everybody

erupts in one way or
another in season two.

I am not amused... at all.

There's something so touching
about this story about someone

who's reached this age and still
has so many questions and is

looking for peace, inner peace.
It's not in a relationship and

it's not in being a mother or a sister.

It's about her as a person finding that.

(Sighing) I'm going to heal that shit.

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