‘3 Body Problem‘ might be a super serious show, but its cast and crew is a group of expert pranksters. David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the masterminds behind the sci-fi Netflix show, are also top-notch thinkers when it comes to pranking people. Their latest victim was the show’s pivotal actress Eiza González.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the duo revealed that they prepared a fake script for González, who plays Auggie Salazar, a nanotech pioneer in their science fiction series, complete with a ridiculously long monologue. Here’s all about it.
David Benioff And Dan Weiss Recall The Prank They Pulled On Eiza González
During a recent interview, ‘3 Body Problem‘ co-creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss revealed that they almost got Eiza González into believing that she needs to carry out a brain-tiring task as part of the show’s script. “We gave Eiza a monologue — a three-page monologue mostly written by ChatGPT, that she was supposed to learn the next day,” Weiss said, giggling at the memory.
The script penned by AI with some tweaks from Benioff and Weiss was a nonsensical ramble about a swimming pool. It also included a bizarre requirement asking González to memorize 50 or 60 digits of Pi. “Or, I think it did?” Benioff added, admitting, “I don’t know Pi well enough to know.”
The scene was elaborate, but it could never really be executed. “Bernie was so tired, at that point she was like, ‘I don’t have the energy to pretend fake things are happening because there are 500 real things that are happening,’” Weiss said, adding that Caulfield informed González that “no, you don’t have to learn a monologue about a swimming pool that lasts three pages.”
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David Benioff And Dan Weiss Have A Penchant For Pulling Pranks On Their Cast
This isn’t the first time that David Benioff and Dan Weiss have pulled such a prank on their actors. Back in their ‘Game of Thrones‘ days, it was famously known how they pranked Kit Harington and Alfie Allen with fake scripts involving Jon Snow’s face being burned off and Theon Greyjoy meeting an untimely end in season 2.
Based on Liu Cixin’s science fiction trilogy, ‘3 Body Problem‘ would be Benioff and Weiss’s first major TV project since ‘Game of Thrones’. It stars Eiza González alongside Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Benedict Wong, Jovan Adepo, and Liam Cunningham.
The series has already been renewed for seasons 2 and 3, focusing on a group of scientists who discover an extraterrestrial civilization that may be dangerous to Earth.
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