After a two-year hiatus, The Umbrella Academy Season 3, starring David Castañeda, hit Netflix on June 22, 2022. Based mostly on the comedian e book collection of the identical title, the collection includes a household of dysfunctional superheroes always tasked with saving the world. In season 3, showrunner Steve Blackman took the lovable weirdness of the present’s storylines and included it into one weird however hilarious scene in episode 1. Castañeda, who performs Diego in the collection, stopped by Showbiz Cheat Sheet to talk in regards to the second everyone seems to be speaking about in season 3.
[WARNING: This article contains detailed plot spoilers regarding The Umbrella Academy Season 3.]
‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 3 continues to include pop music into tense scenes
The soundtrack for The Umbrella Academy is partially what makes the present such a standout in a world of superheroes on each channel. In The Umbrella Academy Season 1, the Hargreeves siblings handled followers to a scene that includes the siblings dancing in their separate rooms to Tiffany’s 1987 hit, “I Think We’re Alone Now.” Season 2 reveals Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) battle off the Swedes to the tune of “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” by the Backstreet Boys.
In The Umbrella Academy Season 3, not solely do followers get some stellar tune selections, however we see the Umbrella Academy and the Sparrow Academy in a dance-off. The scene takes viewers completely off guard, and we watch as the 2 teams reenact the well-known dance scene on the finish of Kevin Bacon’s 1984 hit, Footloose. After we requested Castañeda to offer us the inside track on how that scene went down, he fortunately obliged.
Steve Blackman advised everybody that there could be a ‘big dance’ in ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 3
“I know Steve [Blackman] was like, ‘There’s going to be a big dance. The beginning is a big, big dance. So you better be ready. You gotta be ready. You need to be ready.’ We did a lot of rehearsals, a lot of Zoom rehearsals. Then after quarantine, we met together. We did about, in total, around five weeks of rehearsal to get it to the point of being in sync and learning all these moves,” Castañeda advised us.
Castañeda compares the second in The Umbrella Academy Season 1, “It was kind of like going back to the roots of like the Tiffany song. It became something bigger because obviously, Tiffany was like their own private moments. You know, no one’s supposed to be watching them and now they’re dancing against these foes.”
The ‘Footloose’ dance in season 3 is sort of an actual duplicate of the unique scene
Followers of the unique Footloose will probably be completely happy to study that the dance Castañeda and the remainder of The Umbrella Academy forged performs is sort of similar to the dance seen in the film.
Castañeda advised us, “John, who was the choreographer, he really wanted to kind of immerse our best strengths. It was kind of to the point in terms of those steps, especially that end sequence where we’re going in this V heading toward the camera, right before Diego realizes this is all an illusion? That was step to step of the Footloose thing, and some of those moves in the beginning also. But, John really kind of brought in his own flavor. It kind of allowed us to feel comfortable enough to get what it was. He was really patient with us.”
The massive dance scene happens early in The Umbrella Academy Season 3. Nevertheless, there’s greater than sufficient thriller in the storyline to maintain followers watching. Season 3 is at present streaming on Netflix.