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The Chernobyl Podcast

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You Never Wanted to Be a Sensationalist, Right?

There is a fine line between real and impactful and purposeful and gratuitous, yes. We never wanted to be gratuitous or sensationalist in any way. In the case of akimo, we felt like we had done it. To go further, mean, ikima, when he died, his body was described as essentially blackened. His skin had gone all the way to like, almost like a charcoal colar. He it's terrible. And we just didn't feel like to show that to people, i think, at that point, would have been gratuitous. So you never filmed it. You never, no et put the actor and make up. We o

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