There’s a lot of things you face but the biggest challenge was COVID. We had to bring back young Bobby and he grew a couple inches, so we had to adjust the camera.
You got to remember that the actors are two years older now. I believe it’s better as well, because the pandemic just gave me time to really just delve into more creative juices.ĭid the lengthy break between seasons change the process of this show, whether it was in the writers room or on set?
A lot of the people that have interviewed me have been pointing out that the music is really cool. But during the pandemic, I was actually able to go into my jazz study, and it made its appearance along with my classical composing. I actually like classical more than jazz and hip-hop is my thing. In my ideas of composing, I’ve included a lot of jazz nines and elevens and rootless chords and all these things, but those things were actually not in my music prior, because I’m not a big jazz guy. I think that’s possible because of how much time I spent playing with music during the pandemic. One thing I’m really proud of, and I’ve been hearing people say this in the first three episodes of the series, is that they love the music. And as far as my music is concerned, it increased my music capabilities and my music output.
But COVID actually forced us to sit home. We are never home and it’s just work, work, work. How did you keep up with your new routine? HYPEBEAST: You’re known to be an individual that’s always busy working on something, but the pandemic kind of slowed down all of our journeys. We sat down with RZA once again to discuss the process behind the new season of Wu-Tang: An American Saga, recreating and translating the atmosphere of one of the group’s most culturally important moments and how the Wu-Tang Clan can serve as a blueprint for young minds. They just went up there and ripped it, and that’s the kind of energy that this set built between these young men.” “Sway had to put it on his phone like ‘Yo, this is like the new Wu.’ Nobody told them to do it, they didn’t get paid to do it. Would you believe 90% of the cast members got up from their table, came to the stage and performed in front of us and ripped it,” he recalls, evidently amused at the memory. Sway - he knows Wu-Tang, he knows us - is sitting there at a front table with some other artists, and ‘Protect Ya Neck’ is played by the DJ.
“I basically invite the cast and some people from the crew and a few guests, we do this dinner-slash-party, and I’m kind of hosting it on the mic. “Let me share one thing with you that was so funny,” RZA tells us one afternoon over video, diving into a story that took place at a makeshift and restricted wrap party for season two. There was also the matter of introducing additional cast members to the mix, which can present its own set of trials behind-the-scenes and on-camera.īut as the story of the Wu progressed, so did the bond of the young men in An American Saga. In addition to the trouble that came hand-in-hand with the extended period of time between seasons, the pandemic caused production and season premiere delays, on-set restrictions and the forced recasting of an important character. Speaking to HYPEBEAST just shortly after An American Saga first debuted, RZA explained that the hardest part of working on the show is that “it’s a very tedious job.” Two years and a second season later, he and his team were forced to face their biggest challenge yet: a pandemic.
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