2026-10-23 · The Guardian
🔮 The executive producer, Elizabeth White, said AI, “makes us want to be even more authentic”, adding that the creatures filmed in the deep ocean “are probably more remarkable than AI could imagine and it’s completely real”.
She said that in the past “the amount of plankton and things that are in the water in the sequences” would usually mean they might be excluded, and previously, “we might have framed out a boat or a buoy or gone: ‘Oh, actually … the water conditions are not really good enough for this.’”
But now such things are being left in as “we’re really leaning into that authenticity … assertive
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