Hey, that is Jon M. Chu and I’m the director of “Depraved: For Good.” ♫ “The reality is just not a factor of reality or motive.” ♫ Right here is the good Jeff Goldblum enjoying the Wizard and and Ariana Grande enjoying Glinda the Good and Cynthia Erivo enjoying Elphaba. On this scene, we actually wished them to be collectively in order that Glinda may persuade Elphaba to stick with the Wizard. And all through this entire track, they’re singing reside. ♫ “A person’s referred to as a traitor.” ♫ Additionally this — when he goes up the contraption — that’s truly Jeff Goldblum going up on a rig to fly up within the air. He needed to prepare for that. So he does his personal stunts on this film. Now this shot, this all doesn’t reduce. She needed to conceal behind that drape. And he or she’s actually proper now in actual time, working within the hallway to get again to that bookcase. So that is all in actual time. We had 5 engineers, distant management engineers, controlling to the rhythm, the eyeballs, after which she’s working in, ensuring she doesn’t slip within the again. After which Ari comes out. ♫ “They name him fantastic.” “So I’m fantastic.” “And is so fantastic. It’s a part of his identify.” ♫ So we haven’t reduce but all the best way from earlier than. And I do know that once we made this staircase, that’s one thing that Nathan Crowley, our manufacturing designer, and Alice Brooks, our cinematographer, actually wished this crimson staircase to nod to the outdated basic musicals. And in one other nod to outdated basic storytelling, we wished this second the place Glinda may take Elphaba to the aspect and say the identical factor she mentioned in film one, which is like, think about what we may do collectively. And aren’t you uninterested in working. After which this magical Disneyland experience happens. I all the time thought the Peter Pan experience was an ideal nod on this, that it’s all created by an individual, and but it may nonetheless really feel that childlike surprise. I actually wanted Cynthia to return right into a childlike state with the intention to bear in mind what it felt wish to be a part of a system, and the way good it feels typically to be comfy, despite the fact that what she’s performed is extra brave and feels uncomfortable. That is truly, the contraption that they’re on is a large main engineering feat. We actually constructed a experience. They’re truly being lifted from the underside. So we have now tracks on the underside. They’re not being hung from the highest. And it went throughout the room. This room is definitely related to the throne room with the massive Wizard head. So you might stroll from this aspect all the best way to the entrance, which is what you’re about to see as they undergo these drapes. I all the time wished to see what it’s wish to be behind the drape and in entrance of the drape. That basic thought. And after they walked in right here, I wished to really feel like that surprise going into nearly a carousel like place. And whilst they spin, it’s nearly dizzying. And in a bizarre method, it’s nearly like that “Titanic” shot with Leo the place they’re spinning proper earlier than all of the tragedy happens. “Belief me, it’s enjoyable!”
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