Some behind the scenes (and not-so behind-the-scenes) of the tub - from Good Omens

Excerpt from The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion:

Filmed in Cape Town, the crew located a former abattoir as a suitably grim underworld space.  According to Cesco Reidy [first assistant director], it was the physical shape of the abattoir that went on to inform the scene.

“Within the building there is an auction area where the buyers of the meat used to sit on tiers of stone steps. At the bottom, on the auction floor, is an opening about the size of a small cinema screen.  The meat would be brought through and people would bid on the lot. For our purposes, the shape of this room lent itself to the idea that if we put a glass sheet over the opening then we could see the demons of Hell pressed up against it.  We had over one hundred supporting actors in for a big scene with David Tennant. It was inventive and fun.”

I remember back when Neil Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon were posting those odd, double-exposure-esque bathtub photos back in February of 2018 and we couldn’t figure out what on Earth was going on.  Especially that top one with David in the bath - we were wondering if those were really his legs/knees/feet up on the sides of the tub… and why