Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for "Game Is a Feet" Season 2, Episode 1.Poker face,” now streaming on Peacock.

"Poker Face" writer Laura Deeley put forward the idea of ​​a five-season quintet, which creator and director Rian Johnson thinks is "a thing going crazy in all the best of things." But he wanted to give it a try.

Johnson didn't want to use anything fantasy to achieve it. He wanted to dig out the look of the "Poker Face" plot and keep the old-fashioned aesthetic built in Season 1 - but he wanted to cheat with the old-fashioned camera while shooting. "For me, it means making sure we're doing every ounce of 'what's wrong?' and French farce on one door, another, close to missed, pretending to be different people."

It also requires detailed planning, Johnson's storyboard every shot. "I have to think about not only visually, but how to tell the story," he said. "But, which characters will be in it, which cameras can be set up at the same time and get out there at the same time, so that I can get this stuff." Johnson has not only a storyboard, but also a map. "I numbered all angles. I'd say, 'Okay, we're in this look with her one to three angles, and then we put the camera on two and three, and we covered those two."

But the key to pulling out the episode comes down not only to the team of artisans, but ultimately to Cynthia Erivo, the “evil” Oscar candidate who plays all five roles. "She's the reason we were able to shoot this episode in 10 days," Johnson said.

The Season 2 premiere is again running from Rhea Perlman with Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), but soon she can solve another mystery. Jasmine Guy plays Norma, the head of a family in her dying bed, and Erivo is an aspiring artist who devotes her last years of her life to caring for a sick mother. When Amber learns that she has canceled it from her will, she goes on a task to look for metal artist Felicity Price, a woman who lives on a grid but will inherit everything. As it turns out, Felicity is a long-term "secret" sister. Amber land kills wildlife and trade places with her. When Norma died, the family gathered, Delia, who was the apple picker (working with Charlie); Cece, professor and Bebe, DJ, all returned to the family estate. With Delia, Charlie's suspicion is raised, depending on her solution to the crime, as Fake Amber and her sisters fight for succession.

Erivo said she knew she wanted every character to feel very unique and that hair and costumes were an important part of helping her play the role. “I want you to see the same face, but see different experiences in life,” Erivo said. “Because I think it’s injecting comedy, which adds to the feeling you feel about these women.”

She praised Johnson for trusting what she wanted to do. Together with Cece, Erivo added French elements to the way the character speaks. “There is no French in the script – it’s me, plus those moments, she can feel like she’s been French for a long time.” Erivo, along with Delia, hopes that the audience “love her – because I feel like she’s trying to live a good life and be as honest as possible.”

Every sibling's hair will tell a story. “Bebe is an avid kid and found a way to DJ – I wanted some carnival culture that felt like old-fashioned,” Erivo said. So we came up with fear, dyes and bleach, with colors on it, so she felt like a real 90s stepping on a fanatical kid. Cece desperately tries to be as fashionable as she can and Debonair. I like the idea of ​​that wave, fluffy Farrah Farrah Farrah Farrah Farrah Farhah Farrah Fawcett, but her hair can and has it. It's just perfect, there's no one who is out of place.

Delia's hair is straight and narrow. "It's trying to be very uniform, it's a Bob cut and it doesn't have much maintenance," Erivo said. As for the amber, "she's getting all the hair up all the hair, but it's wild. She added: "She's trying to figure it out, but it's not. ”

Helping create a unique look is New York hairstylist Mia Neal, who has three days to bring multiple wigs together. Neil had never seen Erivo, nor did she have a model of her head. “I don’t have her measurements,” Neil said. Initially, Neil refused to work because she wouldn't be able to do everything in time and she didn't have hair to make a wig. But the studio is willing to step in to make sure Neil gets all the hair she needs on time. "I built a full wig and did all the fronts for the other wigs, and I had people build the back of the wig," Neil said. "Because that was the most boring." A few days later, Neil finally met Erivo for the final accessories and made sure that each look was different - looking from a straight bob to a DJ with a long distance.

Since Erivo is playing all the roles, Neal doesn't want to slow down her production, so she doesn't stick anything to it. "The laces and wigs have to fit perfectly. I use these prosthetics on my head to secure the wigs and lace." Erivo's shaved head also helps when it comes to characters because there is no need to hide or hide the hair, and the prosthetics and fix them on the hair and makeup time.

Costume designer Leah Katznelson turns to scripts to crack different looks. There is a mention of Felicity hanging the same jumpsuit in her airflow, so Katznelson takes the matter and tries to find periods that match the old-fashioned quality of the show. Finally, the jumpsuit is modern, but enhanced to have a retro quality, Katznelson said. Once done, the multiples she has are exaggerated.

Cece is another discovered by Katznelson through the script that describes her as a "French Literature Professor." The fashion designer logged in to a three-piece tweed suit. "The high neck changes in her proportions, so it also visually helps to move her face a little bit, and scales like this," Katznelson said. "But it's really about having a romantic version. It's a woman who teaches classics, and she loves being inspired by that universe."

Footwear is another important element Katznelson considers, especially because it changes the way someone stands in space. She gave Seth the heels, which she described as "a female version of Oxford shoes."

As for Bebe, Katznelson doesn't want the DJ character to be both stale and gaze, and she browses the photos for inspiration. "I looked at FKA's branches and her look. It became a spark that attracted the club scenes and contemporary music."

Once the appearances blend together, the next step is to block and shoot. Photographer Jaron Peasante uses rehearsal time to find out his footage and where to use split screens or doubles. “For every character she plays, we have a double that knows all the lines, and they have wigs and wardrobe that matches,” Peasante said. "There are other people who can react in the frame. Cynthia will run around the room, go to the next place, and then run to the next in the room."

Even until editing, editing Bob Ducsay used old-time techniques. “Amber encounters Felicity for the first time, it’s multiple times when Amber is in the frame and then there are multiple felicity in the frame,” Ducsay said. With a lot of shots, he was able to make choices and collaborate with Erivo's performance “as much as possible”.

The order of battle with Amber - she tried to kill Felicity again - simply pieced together, Ducsay used multiple techniques. "When faces are rolling on the ground, it's the most advanced thing we do. Additionally, we used a regular split screen that was done very simply on the camera tablet, and the operator carefully copied the speed so that we could piece together the two things."

When the siblings merged together again, Ducsay explained that the scenes were challenging edits. "We know we're going to split everyone. The more you do, the more these characters you bring in the same scene, the more complex it becomes."

Finally, Charlie puts things together and realizes that Felicity isn't what she says is true. Since Felicity's feet have prosthetics, she found a way to expose the amber color.

"That boot needs to do a lot," Kaznelson said. It needs to have high heels and thin enough leather to make Charlie pierce the shoes as part of the story. "It also needs to have a punk-mosque, it needs a space where the special effects teams squirt blood everywhere," Kaznelson said. Finally, she bought 10 pairs of boots for the scene.

As for the fake amber wearing "poker face" trying to hide her pain, editor Ducsay was happy about it. "You want to use the moment as much as you can because it makes it more interesting," he said. "She tried to pretend that it wasn't that she was incredibly painful. We also had such excellent material from Cynthia and Natasha, and once it was put together, it was adorable."

That scene requires Erivo to dip into different characters, each of which requires a costume, makeup and hair change accordingly. "We're going to shoot each character almost twice, but before you get back to the beginning, you're going to do four characters," Erivo said. "It's exciting."

Erivo doubts whether she can do this effectively and convincingly. "They are all doing different things, they all move in different ways, they all act differently, they sit very differently, they move differently, they speak differently, and they speak differently, and they sound differently," Erivo said. "It's about remembering every time you go to the next character, who they are, what they sound like, what they look like, what they look like, all of that, all of that, all of that, all of that is not completely burning."

“It’s so fun to do this,” Erivo said. “It’s so fun to bend these muscles.”