Hey, that is Jon M. Chu and I’m the director of “Depraved: For Good.” ♫ “The reality isn’t a factor of reality or cause.” ♫ Right here is the nice Jeff Goldblum taking part in the Wizard and and Ariana Grande taking part in Glinda the Good and Cynthia Erivo taking part in Elphaba. On this scene, we actually needed them to be collectively in order that Glinda might persuade Elphaba to stick with the Wizard. And all through this entire tune, they’re singing dwell. ♫ “A person’s referred to as a traitor.” ♫ Additionally this — when he goes up the contraption — that’s really Jeff Goldblum going up on a rig to fly up within the air. He needed to practice for that. So he does his personal stunts on this film. Now this shot, this all doesn’t minimize. She needed to cover behind that drape. And he or she’s actually proper now in actual time, operating 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 operating in, ensuring she doesn’t slip within the again. After which Ari comes out. ♫ “They name him great.” “So I’m great.” “And is so great. It’s a part of his title.” ♫ So we haven’t minimize but all the way in which from earlier than. And I do know that after we made this staircase, that’s one thing that Nathan Crowley, our manufacturing designer, and Alice Brooks, our cinematographer, actually needed this crimson staircase to nod to the previous traditional musicals. And in one other nod to previous traditional storytelling, we needed this second the place Glinda might take Elphaba to the aspect and say the identical factor she mentioned in film one, which is like, think about what we might do collectively. And aren’t you uninterested in operating. After which this magical Disneyland journey happens. I all the time thought the Peter Pan journey was an excellent nod on this, that it’s all created by an individual, and but it might nonetheless really feel that childlike surprise. I actually wanted Cynthia to return right into a childlike state with the intention to keep in mind what it felt wish to be a part of a system, and the way good it feels generally to be comfy, although what she’s performed is extra brave and feels uncomfortable. That is really, the contraption that they’re on is a large main engineering feat. We actually constructed a journey. They’re really being lifted from the underside. So we now have 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 could possibly stroll from this aspect all the way in which to the entrance, which is what you’re about to see as they undergo these drapes. I all the time needed to see what it’s wish to be behind the drape and in entrance of the drape. That traditional thought. And after they walked in right here, I needed 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 means, 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!”
