In Twisters, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glenn Powell and Anthony Ramos face uncontrollable tornadoes. Like Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in the 1996 disaster movie. On set, the actors didn’t have to use too much imagination, they were helped by huge wind and rain machines, and also… bad weather.
“We shot it during tornado season in Oklahoma.”director Lee Isaac Chung (The Tower) tells us when we meet him in London to discuss the blockbuster. “We were out in the fields, on the roads, and we saw extraordinary clouds that formed and the weather changed. We had to stop shooting a lot. One day out of three we had to stop because of lightning, or wind, or an incoming blast. A tornado.”
Is it enough to reduce the number of special effects planned from the beginning using weather hazards? Not easily: “In the movie you see clouds that turn into tornadoes”Lee Isaac Chung answers. “But we had to predict ahead of time and close the set, so the weather forecasters were alerting us to how the weather was going to play out, so we knew when to move.”
As soon as lightning appeared within a radius of 25 kilometers, we had to stop
“As soon as there was a lightning strike within a radius of 25 km, we had to stop. So the lightning bolts you see in the movie are not real. Because they would be very close to us. But we face a lot. from bad winds.”
which helped the actors get into the skin of their characters. “We were like, ‘I have no idea what’s going to happen today.’confirms Anthony Ramos with a smile. But these climatic conditions served as a film that indirectly causes the climate crisis.
“I like it when what happens in the movie happens in production”said Lee Isaac Chung. “So, yeah, we felt like we were chasing real tornadoes. And the movie itself felt like a tornado to me in a lot of ways.” If what you see on the screen seems plausible, there is an explanation.
Comments collected by Maximilien Pierrette in London on 8 July 2024 – Editing by Constance Matthews
Source: Allocine
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