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Oh, and none of them knew what if felt like to be psychotically high.
Different than our 20s!
Dancers are a different beast, Boutella told him.
You dont want to have that weight on your shoulders.
By chance, Boutella had befriended McNeely just a few months earlier and suggested Noe review her work.
He liked what he saw, and so he brought her onboard to wrangle his beasts.
We just put on the music super-loud and let them kind of like show off, says McNeely.
They had to be show-offs for the whole film.
(That happened twice.)
Voguers were flipping their hair and krumpers were stomping and like I was like, No, okay.
Dont ever do that again, says McNeely.
Instead, she pared the work down to the most basic element she could think of: walking.
It is in the film.
That meant they had to bring it in absolutely every long shot.
I think the exhaustion got a little real for sure, says McNeely.
Allowing them to shine through is really what you have to do.
McNeely and Boutella actually worked out the loose choreography for the scene by accident.
During their first studio session together, McNeely ran off eight counts while Boutella danced.
Hey, we warned you this was hell!
It was a bit heartbreaking, the actress says of Selvas experience.
