She stayed to the bitter end, and it got cold. And she didn’t have a lot of time to choreograph it, so she stuck with it, and I think the end result was really believable. She really wanted to do the majority of her stunts as much as possible. I think she really understands how hard she worked for the moment and all the time she put into the album. She’s honestly a beautiful person, just super nice, super down to go all in for the craft. And I’ve never realized a year ago she had hit me up about trying to collaborate on a project. It’s funny because when I posted the teaser trailer on Instagram, I tagged her and it brought me to our DMs. So we were on set for probably 19 hours or 20 hours.īreslauer: I never worked with her before. We had to shoot it in one long day because it was all that was left before the holidays. Normally for a video of this size or caliber, you’d have two or three days to shoot it. So it was pretty much a quick sprint to get there. And of course, that one was shooting in six days, the day before we broke for the Christmas holiday. We got approached by SZA’s label in the middle of December. Most music videos move quickly, but this one was definitely one to write home about. How quickly did the production for this video come together? And obviously, you have a song called “Kill Bill,” and we wanted to have fun going down the road of: “How can we make our own little action movie and make it ours and still throw little nuanced nods to the films?” So she was really wanting to lean into that: less performance and kind of diving into the acting side. And she feels like she never gives it to them, even if there’s narrative beats, it’s never fully narrative. Where did the idea to base the video off of Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” movies begin?īreslauer: When SZA approached me she was really just saying that her fans had been wanting a narrative heavy video for a long time. In separate interviews, Breslauer and Podesta took Variety behind the scenes of the SZA video, and explained how it all came together in a “perfect storm” at the last minute. “Kill Bill” is directed by Christian Breslauer and produced by Luga Podesta, who previously worked together to create hit videos such as Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow’s “Industry Baby” and Lizzo’s “About Damn Time.” Podesta produces through his banner London Alley Entertainment with Andrew Lerios and Mike Breslauer.
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