‘Smile 2’ | Anatomy of a Scene

“Hello, I’m Parker Finn. I’m the author, director and one of many producers of “Smile 2.” This scene takes place within the again half of the movie, and we’re with the character of Skye Riley, a pop star performed by Naomi Scott. She’s the primary character of the movie. And we’re leaping into this scene when she is at a peak stage of paranoia. So on this scene, Skye is encountering this group of smilers. We’d by no means performed a full group earlier than. It felt like a extremely thrilling new factor to do on this movie. So this second when they’re chasing down the hallway after her. My manufacturing designer, Lester Cohen, and I had designed this mirrored hallway as a result of we knew that by sending this horde of dancers down the hallway, all of the reflections was going to exponentially develop the quantity of faces and arms and limbs we see. These dancers that I started working with and my choreographer, Celia Rowlson-Corridor, it was this unimaginable collaboration to create one thing that felt each like a menacing assault, but additionally on the identical time dance. For the majority of the scene, we had 14 dancers and so they’re all performing this choreography, however all of them additionally needed to be using the smile all through. So it was actually about teaching them, the right way to do the smile, but additionally the right way to maintain onto it whereas doing all of this motion. But additionally how we now have Naomi, who’s performing choreography, however for her to make it look not like choreography, like she’s simply immediately being attacked and doesn’t know what’s going to occur subsequent.