Video: ‘Smile 2’ | Anatomy of a scene

“Hello, I am Parker Finn. I’m the author, director and one of many producers of “Smile 2”. This scene takes place within the second half of the movie, and we’re with the character Skye Riley, a pop star performed by Naomi Scott. She is the principle character of the movie. And we’re getting into this scene when it is at its most paranoid. So on this scene, Skye encounters a gaggle of smiling folks. We had by no means completed a full group earlier than. It felt like a extremely thrilling new factor to do on this movie. So this second the place they’re chasing her down the hallway. My manufacturing designer, Lester Cohen, and I designed this mirrored hallway as a result of we knew that by sending this horde of dancers down the hallway, all of the reflections would exponentially enhance the quantity of faces, arms, and limbs we see. These dancers I labored with and my choreographer, Celia Rowlson-Corridor, it was an unbelievable collaboration to create one thing that felt directly like a threatening assault, however on the identical time like a dance. For a lot of the scene, we had 14 dancers they usually all carried out this choreography, however all of them additionally needed to put on a smile your complete time. So it was actually about coaching them, the best way to do the smile, but in addition the best way to maintain it whereas doing all this motion. But additionally like we now have Naomi, who’s doing a choreography, however for her to make it not seem like a choreography, like she’s instantly being attacked and does not know what is going on to occur subsequent.