I’ve seen this behind the scenes video before, but it was a couple months ago. In rewatching I was struck by a couple things:
1. I believe that in speaking carefully and trying not to give any spoilers, Michael Sheen and David Tennant’s words sound even more suggestive than they ordinarily would.
“*pause* earthly delights”
“Crowley guides him to certain understandings, in different ways”
“ox ribs…which he takes to…*very enthusiastically*”
2. “That was a very funny day- watching Michael spit beef across the set.” Why did David choose to say it this way? 😂😂😂 He could have said “spit beef out” or “into a bucket” or many other things, but *spit beef* *across the set* gives such images 😅😂😳
3. I’m sad they split them up for this part of the interview. They show them being interviewed together in other bts videos this season. They aren’t supposed to be separated! Can you imagine what would have happened if he had said “spit beef across the set” next to Michael‽ 😅😂🙃
I gathered together all of the interviews I could find where Gavin Finney discusses his work for Good Omens: including how he framed certain shots, the filters used for some scenes, how Aziraphale has a constant halo and celestial shots. (Even a camera that only exists for filming the Gavotte).
There are even more things dealing with CGI and VFX in the articles. So do give them a read if you can!
I also added some things he mentioned for The Ineffable Con 4.
Here are all of my sources:
British Cinematographer Season 1
Good Omens DP Gavin Finney on Earthly and Otherwordly In-Camera Delights
British Cinematographer Season 2
How Cinematographer Gavin Finney Brought Heaven and Hell to Life in ‘Good Omens’
DP Chat: Good Omens cinematographer Gavin Finney
Definition Magazine: Raining Men, Omen
On Shooting Good Omens
Maggie Service: ‘The Good Omens Universe Is A Lovely Place To Inhabit’ – Interview
Tweets because I do now know how to call them anymore:
When I was trawling through pictures of the library used for Dalrymple's office, I noticed that there was a different painting from the one in the show. Looking a bit closer, the one in the show appeared to be a patient having a blood-letting by a doctor:
Because I'm a nosy old bean, I asked Mickey Ralph, one of the graphic design team, about it and she was kind enough to reply :)
So this is the full image of the painting that Mr. Dalrymple has above his fireplace. Speaks measures about him as a holier-than-thou playing-God character, doesn't it?
Something about the Book of Life being literally one single book containing the entirety of life, all the lives there are and ever where, along with the power to completely erase a life (a living being) from existence. Something about Aziraphale’s bookshop being one place containing and preserving a collection of books from a span of thousands of years, written word from the minds of humanity, something about human souls telling stories from the dawn of time, saying and writing and scribbling and screaming 'We are here', 'We were here', 'We matter', expressing what it means to be alive. Something about this very bookshop standing untouched in the middle of ruins and destruction, something something ...