“Do ya really wanna, do ya really wanna taste it?”
After that, Gunn set her free to choreograph the dance however she wanted.
In those early days of choreographing the dance, Barton pulled a lot from legendary actor/dancer Bob Fosse.
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“He made himself available to me to test out some things and he was a very willing participant.
“Everybody was nervous when they walked into the room on that first day,” Barton says.
That eased some of the nerves and tension right off the top.”
But all of them were really willing to just trust and go for it."
Once all the actors learned the dance, it was time to rehearse it on set.
“In the end, James made the really brilliant call to put it on a stage instead.
So I had to modify [the dance] to make it fit in the new space.
And then we shot in one day.
It was tight but it worked out.”
It slowed us down but in the end, it worked great.
He nails that slide and just glides right across the floor.
But that’s the kind of thing you’re free to’t prepare for."
Barton was able to exhale once they finished shooting.
“As far as I know, [I’m returning to choreograph again],” she says.
As it stands right now, I’m very excited about season 2.
It’s been fun to think about how we’re going to top that and surprise people."
