VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Jack O’Connell & Alfie Allen On The Peril & Joy Of Shooting In The Desert For ‘Rogue Heroes’

Rogue Heroes tells the creation story of an elite British special forces unit during World War II in Northern Africa. 

Jack O’Connell, who plays Paddy Mayne, and Alfie Allen, who plays Jock Lewes, recently sat for a discussion with uInterview founder Erik Meers where they revealed what it was like shooting the series in the desert.

“We all go to drive dune buggies in the desert,” Allen said. “That was pretty great. That was at a time when everyone was being Covid conscious and this was kind of like, ‘Okay, we’re getting out of the cage.’ When they did let us out into the wild, they let us use the desert dune buggies. Huddling together in the sand storms was hilarious in itself and also getting a real sense of what it was like out there in terms of the real like environment for the real-life soldier.”

O’Connell shared his favorite scene to shoot.

“Tough to pick one out,” he said. “What’s hilarious to us is that by the time it’s on the screen, it’s obviously with all the visual effects and sound effects. Even the parachute jump looks daring and we’re obviously trying to sell that we’re jumping off an aircraft. We’re not obviously. We’re on this fuselage and we’re jumping onto crash mats about four feet beneath. You’re having to try and perform all of that type of stuff and then jumping off the Jeeps. There’d be a few insurance queries if you were trying to ask actors and what have you to hump of moving vehicles at speed. Again, you’re just trying to fudge these moments the best you can. It’s quite hilarious to watch. You know you’ll pull it off, it’s just funny when you know the reality of the sequence.”

Rogue Heroes is now streaming on Epix.