Yeah, Algar paints a very accurate picture of Scott's modus operandi. He gives his actors lots of freedom for personal interpretation as to how their characters act and react and even looks. Katherine Waterston's much maligned haircut in Alien: Covenant for example was her idea. Most of Roy Batty's "Tears in the Rain" soliloquy came from Rutger Hauer himself and that is of course now one of the most memorable parts of the film.
But usually if an actor brings up an idea that Scott doesn't fancy he will tell them that it sounds "interesting", which will be the cue for the actor to just drop the idea and move along.
I like the sound of these quotes:
Quote"It didn't feel like we shooting TV, it felt like we were shooting a film, a really long film.
"The sets were all built, there was very little green screen or blue screen and you're on set you feel like you are on a different planet, especially being so far away from home, in South Africa.
I wonder if they shot in anomorphic? It would certainly be unusual for a tv series but not the first.
QuoteAlgar added: "I was on set filming up in Leeds and I hadn't checked my email and I rang my mum and told her and then read down on the email where it says 'please don't tell anyone' and had to be like 'Mum, you know that information I told you? Forget that'."
So she basically told her mum to stay mum?