Jeremy Clarkson previews The Gigantic Tour season 2: ‘It be a better show’

The boys are support!

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James Might well return for season 2 of The Gigantic Tour, which premiered Friday on Amazon. However, the avenue to this premiere became as soon as moderately laborious as all three hosts suffered scientific emergencies for the length of production on the novel season, which visits Switzerland, Mozambique, Colorado, and heaps of other areas.

Health issues and prolong however, Clarkson assures EW that the show has improved vastly from the principle season because they removed several substances that weren’t working. As an illustration, “Superstar Mind Crush” has been modified by “Superstar Face Off,” a sport whereby two celebrities who’re linked in some spirited ability lope spherical a music to gaze who’s the quickest. This twelve months’s company encompass Kiefer Sutherland, Luke Evans, Hugh Bonneville, and Dominic Cooper.

Underneath, Clarkson previews the novel season for EW, talks about other challenges they confronted for the length of the production, and whether or no longer or no longer he’s already started alive to in an quit date.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Going into season 2, did you accomplish any changes to the format? 
JEREMY CLARKSON: Yeah, the two substances of season 1 that didn’t in actuality work, so we removed these.

Which substances?
The curmudgeonly American driver we hired, weirdly, became as soon as okay within the U.K., but the Individuals didn’t appear to like him very noteworthy — spicy. So, we’ve modified him. And, then Superstar Mind Fracture, which became as soon as an accident started because we hadn’t gotten the hiss the celebrities had been going to attain. It wasn’t ready in time for show one. Then, we fair correct kept that going and it purchased listless and pathetic after some time, so we removed that. Now, company in actuality attain near on and they attain compete towards one one other. So, it’s fun. It’s a better show. There’s no query it’s a better show. Now, that the tent is staying in a single place, the motion pictures are extra extravagant than they ever had been. So, yeah, I’m somewhat satisfied with it.

Why did you protect to protect the tent in a single place versus sharp spherical to every location?
Pure logistics. Whilst you happen to’re sharp the tent spherical the globe, we realized [nothing changes] as opposed to the query changing out of the window, [and] we realized shall we place anything else we like out of the windows. You’ll want to presumably presumably presumably CGI no topic you’d like. You’ll want to presumably presumably presumably dwelling going on if you happen to’d like. So, we fair correct belief, “Let’s fair correct protect that there.” That provides us beyond regular time within the twelve months to indubitably accomplish better movie. Of us, I mediate, will almost definitely be extra drawn to having extravagant, wild, angry motion pictures, than having a question of wooden of Helsinki out of the window. It became as soon as a no brainer for us. Lets condense the staunch studio substances of the show down to two or three months, instead of four or 5 months, which provides beyond regular time for filming. Whilst you happen to spent loads of the twelve months within the sanatorium, as now we possess, we wanted that point.

This twelve months, you guys hit several bumps within the avenue with your pneumonia. How became as soon because it filming the show while being in unhappy health?
I became as soon as the closing one. James went unsuitable first with an “unspecified illness” [substances down at his pants], then Hammond clearly broke his leg [ina automobile rupture], and I purchased pneumonia. So between us, we’ve been out of action for moderately some time this twelve months. It’s why [they’re] in a angry dismay within the edit in London now attempting to fetch your complete motion pictures ready in time for the backend of the season.

How far did that plight you guys on the support of agenda?
Effectively, it’s no longer convenient. Assign it like this: The Christmas particular isn’t but filmed, and gained’t be till January. That’s the ideal staunch [setback]. The season is two weeks late to air, which is noteworthy. I do not perceive how we managed to claw support that point, but there’s a mini-particular from Mozambique, but the principle particular, which is in a plight to be achieved in Colombia, we’re no longer filming till January, so that’ll exit as a scream treat within the center of the twelve months.

This season you guys went to Croatia, Switzerland, Mozambique, Dubai. Which one became as soon as your favourite location?
Mozambique indubitably. That’s an even attempting country. Filming in southern Africa — Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, any of these countries — is heaven. They simply don’t realize what you indicate by smartly being and safety. You’ll want to presumably presumably presumably attain anything else you like. One thing is that that that chances are you’ll presumably be in a plight to assume. And, it’s stunning, the weather is supreme, and also you’re uninterrupted by any of the things that curse the Western world. I like southern Africa, so filming there could be a pleasure. Now, fingers crossed we’ll be in a plight to head movie in Zimbabwe next twelve months now that that’s develop into readily accessible.

However then, I’d impart Colorado became as soon as in actuality entertaining. We took our cars snowboarding there — in actuality drove down the Telluride Ski Resort from the ideal stamp town,  which sounds in actuality entertaining, but it became as soon as incredibly awful, because it modified into out. Mixing bushes, low friction surfaces, and gravity is a extremely awful mixture. However, all of us lived.

What cars did you force down the slope?
Three faded Jaguars. Now not ideal and no longer modified in any ability. They had been simply three faded Jaguars. Coming down a dusky lope in a Jaguar is, , you in actuality need to be being attentive. It became as soon as in actuality a movie about [how] Jaguars aren’t as unreliable as everyone says they are. With our tongues firmly in our cheek, we plight off to Colorado in three faded Jaguars to say you the world. Gentle Jaguars, the recognition they’d for unreliability became as soon as entirely counterfeit, and we spent as a rule mending our Jags, but it became as soon as a fun movie.

Rather then the scientific crises, had been there any other unexpected challenges you fair correct weren’t ready for whilst you had been accessible?
Yeah, always. The place we’ve located our tent, for instance, it’s an even attempting scene of English nation-utter on the support of it, in actuality supreme query. We had been very cheerful, but we’ve place it precise on the quit of a runway, that suggests that every minute that that chances are you’ll presumably possess got to finish filming while a airplane takes off, which is somewhat thick. Moreover, there’s a discipline of sheep originate air, in impart you lower for a airplane to head over, the sheep switch. In case you return but again, anybody who watches in moderation will peep these sheep [and wonder] “How the hell possess they gotten from there to there suddenly?” So little things like that, but I moderately like sharp sheep on the support of the shot. It provides the show a human feel.

It appears to be that that chances are you’ll presumably be in a plight to indubitably fetch bored looking at Richard Hammond descend off a motorcycle. The first 30 times, it’s hilarious, but whilst you’ve long past past 50 times, which he truthfully did in Mozambique…

Had been you working with bikes in Mozambique?
He became as soon as. I’m no longer wearisome. I had a protect-up truck, James had a Mercedes, and Richard had a motorcycle. We every chose what we belief became as soon as the staunch answer to the discipline we’d given ourselves. I became as soon as looking at an Anthony Bourdain documentary on Mozambique and he became as soon as telling the viewers this, that, and the different, and I belief, “That’s a first fee advice for us.” I gained’t give the sport away, but we went over there and also you wanted no topic you belief will almost definitely be the staunch vehicle for the job at hand. Hammond belief it’d be a motorcycle…within the wet season. Okay, every to his possess.

You, Hammond, and Will had been working collectively for years, first on High Gear. Kind that that chances are you’ll presumably possess got an endpoint in strategies? 
You’ll know. If I came up to a corner in somebody else’s $four hundred,000 automobile and belief “I’m able to’t be stricken to dart this spherical the corner and deliver and shout,” then it’s time to jack it in. And, faded other folks aren’t silly. So, there comes a degree the place you fair correct can’t be stricken to be silly anymore, so inch on and fetch somebody else.

Novel episodes of The Gigantic Tour premiere every Friday on Amazon.