OT: Wachowskis' 2nd season of Sense8 begins some preliminary shooting
As of the latest tweets by some of the actors the first three scripts (of the twelve?) have been delivered to them and while cinematographer John Toll has recently gone on record that the main shoot is being discussed to begin on March 2016, it looks like the filmmakers do not want to lose the opportunity to shoot some authentic Christmas footage.
Ten days ago Aml Ameen (Capheus) tweeted they would be shooting the first footage of Season 2 in ten days (which would make it today, Sunday, or perhaps he miscalculated and meant on tomorrow, Monday). Other actors who have posted online about their involvement in the shoot are Brian J. Smith (Will), Doona Bae (Sun), Max Riemelt (Wolfgang), Tina Desai (Kala) and Jamie Clayton (Nomi). I would expect every single one of the 8 to be present but we don't know for sure.
The shoot will take place in Berlin so it might be Wolfgang focused. Smith posted a picture of Berlin's Unter den Linden decorated with Christmas illumination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unter_den_Linden) at some point but that could be him doing some sightseeing.
Meanwhile Ameen has posted that he is training with a professional boxing couch for the second season and another tweet where he wrote he needs to learn many new skills in which he included emojis of swimming, riding a horse and a motorbike. Smith wrote about doing some undefined type of training as well.
Hopefully we will get our first pictures and reports of the second season within the next days.
Sources:
the cast's twitter and instagram accounts
http://thefilmstage.com/features/john-toll-talks-adjusting-for-the-small-screen-sense8-the-wachowskis-more/ (where Toll says the main shoot should begin on March)
https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/677686834613379073 (where JMS confirms what is going on is a separate shoot from the main unit, intended to grab some Holiday footage)