“Grotesquerie” director Max Winkler was afraid he would be fired because of the 15-minute continuous shot in Episode 5

“I kept lying to everyone: ‘We can do it.’ I thought, ‘We’re going to do this 1,000,000%,'” Winkler told TheWrap. Throughout the process, Winkler was reminded of one of his heroes, Marcelo Bielsa, coach of the Uruguayan national team, who famously never had a plan B, other than to better implement plan A. It was exactly this mindset that Winkler brought to “Red Haze.”

“In my head I was like, ‘Oh my God, are you really going to get fired for this?’ Are you really going to burn yourself out of Hollywood with this idea?’ “said Winkler. “But we did it. I’m really proud of everyone involved.”

It’s not hard to understand Winkler’s panic over Red Haze.