More Actor AU Headcanons for the SNK/AOT characters! (S3/S4 Edition)
1.) Sasha and Gabi are, in fact, sisters outside of the world of AOT! This was quickly revealed after hate comments started increasing against Gabi the actress rather than Gabi's character. For Gabi's mental health, the movie team placed an SNS ban on her to help her avoid seeing the comments. Meanwhile, Sasha fiercely advocates for sister during S4 interviews, calling out the viewers who have gone too far in taking out their frustrations.
2.) Yelena cannot physically bear to see the scrunched up face she makes at Armin when her character realizes he had been playing her this entire time. You know which one I am referring to. Every time she sees it on her feed, she scrolls quickly; otherwise, it makes her cringe.
3.) Floch revealed in a livestream that he almost withdrew from his role when Isayama revealed his character design. It goes without saying that he was NOT a fan of the hair. Luckily for him, Season 4 came with its share of hairstyle changes for many cast members (Eren, Armin, Jean, Connie), so his complaints were heard. Not to mention the pay for his superb acting definitely made the snide online remarks worth it.
4.) In an S3 interview with Ymir and Historia, it was revealed they shot a kiss scene to which the lyrics of Zero Eclipse were referring ("you're trembling, we share a kiss") but the scene was unfortunately omitted for time's sake. A week later, a low quality "fancam" of the kiss on set was anonymously posted on Twitter. People think either a castmate or someone from the editing team posted it from their burner account LOL.
5.) Dhalis Zachary hardly has a presence on social media. Just an instagram account that had a few photos from some trips that he took with family. Completely normal. That being said, his following erupted immensely after he posted a picture of himself sitting in the chair. Yeah. That chair. Luckily he was sitting on it as if it were a throne, and not a human rights violating torture contraption.
6.) There's a blooper scene where Zeke is stuck in the sand in the paths from when his character almost died from the thunder spear blast in S4. He's groaning at Ymir (the founder) and asking her when she's going to be done. The actress playfully hits him up on the head with her empty sand bucket. Zeke groans further in faux frustration.
7.) Porco wasn't told that Pieck was going to walk on all fours as he was heading up the stairs in that one scene, so the reaction filming crew got on tape was his live reaction. Luckily, he was able to reel himself before he could curse, allowing for a smooth one take.
8.) Keith Shadis's actor made baby Eren cry when shooting the scene where he was ranting to Carla Jaeger for not being able to understand the honor of being part of the Survey Corps. He felt really bad, so they had to reshoot the scene such that Shadis was greenscreened onto the scene where Carla holds the baby with no one actually there to act the scene with.
9.) Reiner and Jean's banter in the last episode, where Jean says "it's a damn shame you got a new lease on life" was completely unscripted. Reiner actually looks to the crew for a cue because he wasn't expecting that response LMAO. The cast burst out laughing once the "CUT!" was announced. The take was kept in.
10.) Filming during the "Paths" scenes where Eren talks to all his friends at once had to be retaken several times because someone in the main cast would always end up tripping over themselves in the sand. One take it's Connie. Another it's Armin. Then Jean. Each reset, they would have to go back to the start. Each reset, the sand would have to be redistributed to make it seem like multiple people hadn't just ran through it. By the time they were done, the cast looked as if they truly had been fighting through the Rumbling themselves: sweat dripping, breaths panting, a collective mind of people hoping for this moment to be over.
