The director Jay Roach narrates a sequence featuring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
The director Jay Roach narrates a sequence featuring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
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‘Bombshell’ | Anatomy of a Scene
The director Jay Roach narrates a sequence featuring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
Hi, I’m Jay Roach. I am the director of the film “Bombshell.” So in this scene, we see Margot Robbie, who’s playing Kayla, take a call from— clearly, from Roger Ailes’ office. And Kate McKinnon, who’s playing Jess, in the cubicle with her. We have just seen, a few scenes back, that Roger is harassing Kayla right this minute and is now pressuring her to come back up. We’ve also seen that Kate McKinnon’s character has warned her not to talk about it. So right away, it’s about staying silent. The score is playing this sort of haunting, all women’s voices as the instrumentation, almost Phillip Glass thing that Teddy Shapiro came up with to emphasize how alone she is on this walk. And she walks into this elevator and thinks she can be alone. But in walks her actual idol, Megyn Kelly, played by Charlize Theron. And now, two women, who both have secrets, who both have been harassed, are in the same tight space and won’t say a word to each other. And they’re going to ride this elevator up to the floor where Roger Ailes is. And this shot here is such a great example of Barry Ackroyd’s incredibly humanistic operating. He’s just watching the people and paying attention to what they’re reacting to, and finding the composition off of the performance. In comes Gretchen Carlson, played by Nicole Kidman, who’s now a third woman in a different level of predicament, a different level of being harassed by Roger. And they’re all stuck in this space. So this was a very important scene, because it’s the only time in the whole movie when all three women are in the same place. And we wanted a kind of combination of capturing the predicament of them being in the elevator but not supporting each other, and seeing that in the wide shot, that you could actually jump around to watch each woman’s face in the three-shot and compose for that. And as Megyn watches them walk away, she knows that Margo, especially, is walking into Roger’s lair, where almost all of the harassment happened at Fox.
‘Bombshell’ | Anatomy of a Scene
The director Jay Roach narrates a sequence featuring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
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