“We knew it was going to be incredibly hard.
Sometimes, the best way to imitate is to fully commit to replication.M.
“Behind Josh, there’s a real concert going on, and the extras are reacting to that.
Saleka Shyamalan performs as Lady Raven in ‘Trap.'.Warner Bros. Pictures
All of the crew members really got into, ‘Let’s put this on for real.’
There isn’t any CGI.”
Shyamalan continues, “We knew it was going to be incredibly hard.
It was going to be this interaction of movement and light and energy, and we wanted that.
We didn’t want the extras pretending.
We want them going, ‘Whoa!’
at something that happens on screen right when Josh happens to say something.
We wanted to let all that beautiful stuff happen.”
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“My dad is very great at that.
“We treated it in the same way here with the Lady Raven character.
We were thinking about who are the artists that come up on stage with her?
What was their role in her career?
There was so much stuff to it.”
Shyamalan is used to world-building, but committing to the concert inTrapwas another level.
Going forward, he wants to apply the same detail to any story he tells.
Trapis in theaters now.
