Category: Motherland Fort Salem

MOTHERLAND FORT SALEM episode 2X04 filming - December 1 with several cast.

12/4/2020

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Joining the cast you are all familiar with was 2 newcomers, Mellany Barros (thanks to twitter users for figuring it out, I had not come up with the name at first) as an unknown yet singer. As well, an actor some will recognize from The Boys as "Cindy" the super powered asylum escapee from this past season, Ess Hödlmoser, as another yet unknown character. It was funny, because I looked at Ess a few times thinking "I know her from something", but assumed it was another Vancouver production, and not 1 of the top shows out there.

The scene in its entirety sees the group, along with a few other people in the same uniforms come out to the stage. The leads standing on stage with Mellany. Eventually Mellanys character goes up to the podium & makes a loud, long (quite frankly uneasy to listen to) groan/moaning sound. Then she leaves and stands back, as Sarah walks up to the mic. Sarah calls what she said as a "song" and goes on to talk for a couple minutes, before a young Asian actress who I do not have an ID for yet walks up to the stage, and is booed by protesters that were off to the left of the stage (to my right). The girl was taken by a main in a suit up to the stage, where Tally takes her to the back of the stage, before returning to stand to the side of Abigail. Raelle in that time, moves to where Tally was originally standing, to the side of Sarah. Sarah then turns to talk with Raelle. A moment later, several protesters break thru the barricades, and "throw" (they didnt physically do it in the takes I was there for, just made the motions) things at the stage. The group all ducked for cover, eventually slowly rising back up, giving a variety of intense glares of anger towards the group.

I know a few of the fans will wonder where these new scenes match up with the days before. Its unclear. They clearly are not in immediate order, as when we saw Sarah in the first days set, she was busy being interviewed by a news crew without the rest of the cast on stage. So whether thats before, or after this, is unknown. As well, the protest groups were filmed on different sides each day. The right side of the stage protesters on Monday with Amalia & Demetria in the crowd, the left side crowd, which seemed to not include any cast, on Tuesday.

After that scene they went on their lunch break, and I called it a day, even though there probably was still a little exterior filming to do.

Since this is my first post about this show, I just want to re-iterate, if you plan to post photos from this set on social media platforms, you ABSOLUTELY should familiarize yourself with my photo usage policy (its the link in the red text paragraph near the top). Failure to do so, could have your accounts punished/or terminated by social media platforms.

Motherland: Fort Salem season 2 will air on Freeform in the U.S. sometime in 2021.

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Motherland Fort Salem shoots scenes for season 2 in downtown Vancouver with several cast

11/30/2020

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THIS BLOG POST IS FOR A "MOTHERLAND FORT SALEM" SEASON 2 EPISODE 4, AND MAY CONTAIN POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE SEASON.

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Monday I was lucky enough to stumble across the set for the Freeform hit series Motherland Fort Salem, in downtown Vancouver at a location thats been used by many productions throughout the years, the Plaza Of Nations. The episode is directed by Nimisha Mukerji.

This was the first time I had made it to a location for this show. In season 1, I had not heard of it, so the couple times I crossed paths with it, I didnt stick around.

On this day they were filming a scene at a place made to look like a U.S. Armed Forces building. In the early morning scene, they had Lyne Renee as Sarah Alder doing a scene, where she comes out from behind a stage, followed by a news crew, and several older women that stay down below, as Sarah, and the news crew go up onto the stage. As Sarah is heading to the stage, she gives an unimpressed glare off to her right, where a plethora of protesters are standing. Once up on stage, she does a very quick interview with a reporter, then the news crew leaves, and a few moments later Sarah leaves, again giving a glare at the group of protesters off to the side of the stage.

After that scene, they spent the rest of their exterior shoot working on scenes for the protest scene. First they shot some scenes of a bus showing up that had a banner on it that said "Not Our Daughters" on it. The protesters on the bus join the crowd that is already there, as they continue chanting. Later a second vehicle, a winnebago, showed up that said "Save Our Sisters" on it. But they never filmed (at leas ton this day) anyone getting out of that vehicle.

A little later they did more scenes with the crowd, but this time there were other cast members on site. The first person I saw was Demetria McKinney as Anacostia Quartermain. At the time I thought she had a face tattoo, as I was looking at her through the little 2 inch screen on my camera. As it turned out, its a print she has on a face shield she is wearing on set (I have been to several sets post-pandemic re-starting, and this is the first one I had seen using face shields as the standard. Most just use masks, except for the hair & make up team). Amalia Holm as Scylla Ramshorn was also on set, but not being familiar with the show, I did not realize that till I got home and could see the photos on a larger screen.

It was hard to really say what they were doing in the scene, as they were mostly obstructed by the crowd, the signs, and crew. The rare time I did see them, it was for a fraction of a second, and only partially. Most of the time when I did see them, it was between takes.

After that scene they moved inside for some interior shooting. They returned the next day to shoot more, and I will have another post on that in the upcoming days, that has more cast.

Since this is my first post about this show, I just want to re-iterate, if you plan to post photos from this set on social media platforms, you ABSOLUTELY should familiarize yourself with my photo usage policy (its the link in the red text paragraph near the top). Failure to do so, could have your accounts punished/or terminated by social media platforms.

Motherland: Fort Salem season 2 will air on Freeform in the U.S. sometime in 2021.