{"id":314147,"date":"2026-02-24T04:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314147\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:53:10","slug":"he-night-agents-gabriel-basso-interview-on-season-3s-biggest-stunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314147\/","title":{"rendered":"‘he Night Agent’s Gabriel Basso Interview on Season 3’s Biggest Stunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBy the third season of Netflix\u2019s The Night Agent<\/a>, Gabriel Basso<\/a> is used to filming on location. The production has traveled from Washington, D.C., to Vancouver, to New York and Bangkok; in the latest season, which dropped on the streaming platform Feb. 19, Basso and the crew went to Istanbul to film the first episode. \u201cI was always on the move my entire life, so it\u2019s been easy for me to bounce around, and I love history and experiencing different places and cultures, so that part is really cool to me,\u201d says Basso. \u201cHonestly, the most frustrating thing is the gym: losing a gym routine, having to build a new one. Hotel gyms are super depressing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBasso needs the gym in part because of his heavy stunt work on the series about a clandestine officer who uncovers a government conspiracy. The actor, 31, prides himself in his participation in The Night Agents fight scenes, and this season the production upped the ante with a car chase through the Turkish capital, an extreme underwater brawl and explosions aplenty. Here, he tells THR how it all went down.<\/p>\n

\n\tCan you talk about how shooting in Istanbul, on location, influenced this season? <\/p>\n

\n\tWe shot at an actual soccer game [for the first episode]. We got their first two goals on camera. There\u2019s a scene where Genesis walks by me and I\u2019m supposed to blend in with the crowd, and right when she stood up to do so they scored and everyone was up out of their seats cheering. I was celebrating in the crowd, too. It was so sick. They\u2019re known for being a really passionate fan base, so feeling that energy in the stadium was great. <\/p>\n

\n\tIs that the sort of moment where you can really feel the Netflix budget at work?<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, we honestly were sneaking shots. It\u2019s because of how passionate they are \u2014 we were worried that if we had a big footprint, and they lost the game, they would blame it on us. So we did all handheld cameras, not really any lights, very low profile. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhat felt the most different about season three versus the first two years?<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first season was very chaotic. No one really knew what the show was. We didn\u2019t have proof of concept, really. Season two was our first time in New York and we had the pressure, obviously, from season one. This time we finally figured the show out. Even in season two, when Peter is finally allowed to be a night agent, he was still looking for permission to do what he was hired to do. Now, he\u2019s hit his stride as a character. <\/p>\n

\n\tHow involved are you in the preproduction phase of the show?<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m in the writers room process early on. They\u2019ll pitch me the overarching idea for the season, and I\u2019ll give them some ideas.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland and Suraj Sharma as Jay Batra in The Night Agent.<\/p>\n

\n\tAre you pitching story arcs, or things that are more set piece or stunt work-focused?<\/p>\n

\n\tAnything that I think is cool. I pitched the reverse 180 during the car chase scene in Turkey. I went out under the guise of getting some wheel time in a parking lot, and I had Josiah, my stunt double, hold the camera on the back right pillar. I was like, \u201cThis shot would be sick,\u201d me looking past the lens and then throwing this reverse 180. It went up the ladder and they said no a few times, but I continued to chip away at \u2019em.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen they say no to that, is it because of the liability issue of you doing that stunt?<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah. And I say this every time, but I think it should be like what you talk about with the NFL \u2014 you\u2019re getting paid millions of dollars to take these hits. It\u2019s part of the risk. Of course, I\u2019m not going to do something stupid, and I\u2019m going to train and there should be some level of insurance and liability and everything. Even if something doesn\u2019t work, it\u2019s like, \u201cOK, he died in pursuit of greatness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat does your family think of this line of thinking?<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t ask. I\u2019m sure they wouldn\u2019t love getting a call that I\u2019ve been permanently injured, but to me, it\u2019s how did it happen? If I\u2019m speeding down the 101 or the 405 being an idiot, they would hate that. But if it was like, he tried to make film history by doing this \u2014 that would be sick.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tGabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in The Night Agent. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhose idea was the underwater stunt at the end of the season?<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was a lot of back and forth on that. We did a lot of underwater training and breathing work. Austin Brewer is the stunt guy\u2019s name, we were in the tank for nine or 10 hours just sort of scrapping it out. It was kind of stressful. He had a jacket on, and we were in there for so long that it changed color. <\/p>\n

\n\tDid they tell you about that stunt ahead of time, or did you read it when the script came in?<\/p>\n

\n\tI think it was originally written that we would fight in the car while it was on land, and then I drove it into the water and swam out of it. We eventually moved the fight underwater after our fight choreographer came up with some really cool stuff and someone pitched the idea of fighting while the truck filled up with water. <\/p>\n

\n\tHow did you create the explosion that comes after you\u2019re on the dock?<\/p>\n

\n\tWe had a bunch of water canons that went off after I crawled out. <\/p>\n

\n\tHave you ever been scared in the moment?<\/p>\n

\n\tNo. I think if I was scared I wouldn\u2019t do it. Having your adrenaline pumping isn\u2019t the same as fear. The minute you doubt yourself \u2014 they call it target fixation in skydiving, where you\u2019re looking at a tree or a telephone pole thinking, \u201cDon\u2019t hit that,\u201d and you start drifting there because you\u2019re looking at it. So if you start thinking about the bad scenarios, then you\u2019re setting yourself up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the third season of Netflix\u2019s The Night Agent, Gabriel Basso is used to filming on location. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,46051,61,60,116594],"class_list":{"0":"post-314147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gabriel-basso","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-the-night-agent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}