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On Screen FILMMAKER INTERVIEW Do you have any other funny stories from the set or from production? It’s fun making a movie like this with people who are just friends. It makes the set very easy, especially when half the time they’re acting with stuffed socks and blue suits and tennis balls. David Oyelowo came down halfway through the movie. In his first scene, he had to interact with this rabbit and with Rose and with Domhnall. He was amazed how crazy it was, yet how confident Rose and Domhnall were doing it. They helped him through the process. If you step onto a set halfway through one of these movies, especially since it’s the second movie, it’s insanity. The actors have to interact with an animated character, first with a stuffed blue animal, then with a little laser light, then with what’s called the ghost pass—with nothing. So it’s this constant mind scramble. But the movie doesn’t look that way, so that’s a testament to the VFX team and the actors. “It’s fun making a movie like this with people who are just friends. It makes the set very easy, especially when half the time they’re acting with stuffed socks and blue suits and tennis balls.” Did you use any other scratch track actors? I wanted the fox to be Scottish, so I had some scratch track. The more you hear stuff, you get used to it. You start animating to that. Once again, the guy playing Mr. Tod is an animator on the movie [Stewart Alves]. For the crowd scenes, I needed more British voices. So I asked David [Oyelowo], “On your phone, can you do this for me?” So some of the background voices in London are actually him. That’s the fun thing about animation: you can always change things and enhance things. My voice is actually there in a few places. What’s a good example of a shot or scene that was particularly crazy for the actors to shoot with the ghost pass? At the very beginning of the movie, when Peter daydreams a fantasy sequence where he’s fighting Mr. McGregor and kicks him in the face in super slow motion. You see Domhnall’s face move. That’s not fake. The way we did that is Domhnall put a blue [screen] glove on his arm and smacked himself in the face, over and over and over again. Then you remove the arm [in post-production], but the face still looks smacked. What about the scene where Mr. McGregor violently rolls down the hill? That was him, too. He held a real camera out in front of him as he rolled all the way down the hill. We just made sure his hand was out of frame. That’s all real. Those are my favorite times in moviemaking. In one scene, you’ll have 300 crew members. In the next scene, it’s just the actor holding the camera. What about in that crazy climactic sequence? Domhnall Gleeson didn’t actually skydive, did he? We did shoot that in a real airplane, and a stuntman really did skydive. But Domhnall was hung way up in the air, on a crane. 70 Q2 2021
Who came up with some of these minor characters’ names? I’m looking at Busker K. Bushy, Esq.; Trainer von Stauffenmouse; Kennedy St. Squirrel; and Sir Tweedy Fantastic III. I believe in giving actors real character names, so when they go on auditions it doesn’t say they played Man 1 or Man 2. I always like doing that. Those are all named after friends of mine. I have a friend who used to go by Tweedy. For von Stauffenmouse, I have a friend with the last name von Stauffenberg. Why is it important for audiences to see this in a cinema? The movies you really [should] see in theaters, in my opinion, are big Marvel kind of movies and family movies. Parents and kids, you’re all enjoying something together and not otherwise disposed. Seeing the first Peter Rabbit in the theater, it was the nicest thing, seeing parents and their kids together, sharing moments together. Because what’s going on now is everyone’s kind of doing their own thing at home: Kids are watching their own thing, adults are watching their own thing. Theaters are the one time when you have a real co-viewing experience and can talk about it later. If I could find a way to financially bet on the exhibition business, I would. People love predicting the death knell of things, but I know for a fact that people are going to be flocking back to the movies. There are so many movies that haven’t been released yet. I predict this Christmas is going to be the biggest Christmas season in the history of this business. AT THE MOVIES What is your all-time favorite moviegoing memory or experience? <strong>Pro</strong>bably seeing Breaking Away the second time. I loved it so much the first time, I remember not leaving the theater and just sitting there [until it played again]. I saw it recently again with my kids, and it was everything I’d remembered. What’s your favorite snack at the movie theater concession stand? My favorite would be the sausage sandwich at the ArcLight. The ArcLight was one of the first theaters where you could eat dinner while you watched a movie. ArcLight is in trouble, but I hope they’re going to come back. Q2 2021 71
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