Man at Arms: Art of War

[Drunk Monk]

Incan history isn't my specialty but I did a lot of research into Mayan history in High School.  My grandfather gave me a tour of Mexico as my graduation present so I studied up on that, plus that's when Chariots of the Gods was big.  I've always been fascinated by the notion that the Mayans predicted their own apocalypse accurately.  So it really wasn't a big step for me to review it and add the Incan spin, and I actually had a fair amount of talking points that fell to the cutting floor.  I wasn't reaching - I was edited.  Note that for each of the talking head bits, which only end up worth a few minutes on screen, I was talking about that subject for over an hour.  Each.  Of course, there's a lot of re-takes for that because it's just me talking to one of the directors or director assistants.  For this season, my talking head shoot went super late - there was this slight timing snafu - I can't remember how late we shot but I remember all the directors apologizing profusely for it the next morning.  As for the test, I had this riff on how the Macana worked like a sledgehammer and a comparison to Chinese Melon Hammers and Indian Gada that was cut.   

I'm glad they kept the penis line - I forgot about that. That came up from my own personal web research when trying to figure out what the heck a Macana was.