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“Conclave” technically marks Davies’ second collaboration with Berger. During the pandemic shutdown, the pair spent two months prepping an adaptation of “The 39 Steps,” but that production never went forward.
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“You research it, you acknowledge it, and then it inspires and informs your design or your storytelling,” Davies says. “There’s lots of supposed traditions about a conclave. But when you look into that, it goes back hundreds of years, and it’s changed over hundreds of years. Because we were being ambiguous about when this conclave is set, we decided that maybe they’ve changed a tradition or two by now.”
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By chance, there was an existing Sistine Chapel set in storage