She’s not really known for dancing. How’d you get her to let loose?
Looking at her past work, I was surprised that there hadn’t been a video that really was about her from start to finish performing the song. That’s really the most compelling thing you’d want to see. When it came to her dancing, there was no choreography, per se, but it just required for her to be cognizant of what she had done in the last [take]. There were certain suggestions of what would look good when repeated many times over. After a couple takes, once everybody was a little bit looser in term of us on the camera side, she just really let go. Towards the end, we were doing takes that were more about the movement and less about the emotional performance. They were about the patterning, how this was going to appear layered over many times, playing with the texture of the dress a little bit. This was all very natural to her. This is just her being very physically expressive in a way that people aren’t used to seeing.
Who chose that dress?
She chose the dress. I was suffering from a migraine the morning of the shoot, and as I was getting that taken care of, they showed me the dress choices and I thought that was great. We talked about what would look good with this particular idea, something that had some patterning and also that has a certain lightness in the fabric. She just nailed it. It turned out to be perfect dress.
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How was shooting a music video with a migraine?
I got it early and we had the doctor there before she got there, so we didn’t end up losing too much time. It was an unusual curveball. I mention it just because I remember having a migraine and kind of sitting in the dark and they’re bringing photos over: “This is her first choice, and this is her second choice, and this is her third choice…” I was like, this first choice, that looks great. That was the only bit of directorial decision-making that was required during the migraine.
导演拍摄当天偏头痛