Umbrella Academy cast’s favorite group scenes from season 3

Season 3 The Umbrella Academy pits the Umbrellas up against a new group of Reginald Hargreeves’ super-children: the Sparrows. And while that opens the door for plenty of fights and speculation about fights, it also leads to one of the more charming moments of the season — a Footloose-inspired dance-off.

Polygon asked Netflix cast about their top group scenes. They unanimously chose the dance scene. The tension that started between Sparrows & Umbrellas quickly turns to a dance battle when Sparrow Jayne gives Diego her venom. It’s a joyous sequence, starting with a competitive dance between the two groups before breaking off into a joint number involving everyone dancing together.

“The dance was so fun,” Emmy Raver-Lampman said. “When we’re all there, including all the new cast members playing the Sparrows, it’s just always a great, great time. We always just laugh all day.”

Raver-Lampman said it took about five to six days for the complex sequence to be filmed.

[Ed. note: Spoilers for the later episodes of season 3 of The Umbrella Academy follow.]

The Umbrella Academy. (L to R) Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves, Elliot Page as Viktor Hargreeves, David Casta�eda as Diego Hargreeves, Aidan Gallagher as Number Five, Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves in episode 302 of The Umbrella Academy.

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Another popular pick was Luther and Sloane’s wedding at the end of the universe. In the chaotic chaos of the apocalypse and all that was going on, it offered a rare chance for sentimentality.

“The wedding was really good fun because we all got to act drunk as F,” Robert Sheehan said. “We shot in this very, very beautiful building in Toronto called the Liberty Grand Ballroom, where Torontonians like to go and have their wedding reception. Here are some other images. [it was really nice] even though it smells a bit like death — musty, and it’s definitely haunted.”

“That night was so special, you could really just feel it in the air,” Justin H. Min said. “It was like 3 in the morning. But it was just so nice to be together as a family, and you could hear like a pin drop because it was so serene.”

 Ritu Arya as Lila Pitts in The Umbrella Academy.

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Ritu Arya had an unconventional choice (and reason) for her pick — a scene where Allison and Viktor square off while Aryu’s Lila snacks in the background.

“There were tons of sweets in that scene, and I was able to just like, go for it,” Arya said. “And then when you finish the scene, continuity comes and replace everything. This allows you to begin again. It was estimated that I ate about 20 rainbow cookies. I also ate 20 Twizzlers. I’m not a fan of junk food. I felt terrible afterwards, but that wasn’t the point. In the moment, it was quite amazing.”

It wasn’t all fun and games (and sweets) for the cast, with some quite difficult scenes to film as well. The show’s finale featured some group shouting.

“The worst scene to shoot together was the scene where we’re all screaming in agony for 12 hours,” Min said. “Literally was the toughest day, because we just stood there and had to look up into the sky and our necks all hurt because we were screaming.”

Petrana Radulovic also reports.

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