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The phrasebend and snapbegan with a couple of mojitos.
This was beforeJennifer Coolidgesecured her iconic role, and the ideas were comically big.Does her salon get robbed?
Does Paulette run into an immigration issue?We were going in some different directions, McCullah admits.
She extended her leg, bent down as if to snatch something and then quickly snapped her body upright.
I laughed so hard I almost fell off the barstool, McCullah says.
The bartender probably stopped talking to us because he didnt know what the fuck we were doing.
Shortly after, the pair were in Platts office showing him their idea.
I dont mind making a fool of myself, says Smith, who remembers Platt laughing at her.
I definitely felt like a very dorky dancer or wiggler, and it burped out of my psyche somewhere.
For just a few minutes,Legally Blondeturns into a surreal, candy-coated panorama.
Luketic hired Toni Basil the veteran dancer responsible for Hey Mickey to choreograph the short scene.
More chicken wings at the top!
I was like, What is happening?
This is so insane.
After that, I kind of ran with it.
Basil began rounding up other dancers and conceiving choreography to accommodate a group.
Originally, Luketic had asked for just women to appear in the sequence, but Basil pushed back.
After booking the job, I remember being in my office, and I screamed, Brigham says.
When shooting began, Basil gave her the spotlight.
Shed say Okay, lets give Faida a chance to do this alone.
I was like, Why is she singling me out?
Shed call out different steps.
I would do my thing.
At that point, when we kept doing it, I could see they were really taping this.
She steals the scene.
She had to remember what we did from our preproduction time, Basil says.
Watching from the set, Thomas was enthralled.
I just started playing around and started turning the tables on [Paulette], Thomas says.
What if I came in, and I thought she was the most beautiful woman Id ever seen?
The interpretation harmonized with Coolidges comically awkward interactions, setting up their slow-motion, third-act encounter.
Her smile is one of our greatest natural resources, Smith says.
Oh my God, the bend and snap!
he says before the camera cuts to two dogs barking in approval.
It just tells you gay hairdressers, we know everything.
We ended up using a trans light outside the windows to look like a street, Davis says.
She didnt change herself; she just made herself a better version of who she was.
It was a full-on production number, he says.
Look at all the shapes and sizes and ages of people.
My dream has always been that one day theyll do this big directors vision.
It was getting down to the wire, Smith says.
Thank goodness for mojitos.
