PC: You appear at the memorable wedding in TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN PART 1, do you not?PB: [Laughs.] Yes. Actually, it was really funny - as you know, Bill Condon, the director, wrote CHICAGO and so he brought me in to choreograph TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 and PART 2. And, so, I showed up on set and we were all having a good time, and, then, when I showed up on set for the last day of filming, where we were doing the big wedding scene, and I go into my trailer and I find there is a suit there. So, I say to the AD, “Why is there a suit in there?” and, she says, “Bill Condon wants you to get into wardrobe.” And, I say, “What?! What do you mean ‘wardrobe’?!” And, so I put on the suit and I go onset and Bill is there and he puts his arm around me and says, “I got you in CHICAGO and now I’m gonna put you in this one.” And, so, he put me in the scene.
PC: What a great story.
PB: Yeah, it was really fun. It was nice of him to do that.
PC: How did you get involved with Bill on TWILIGHT in the first place? Was it just the CHICAGO connection?
PB: I’m not sure - we never actually met on CHICAGO, but my girlfriend Sharon Leal was in DREAMGIRLS that he directed so she had known him. I had never met him before TWILIGHT, though. One of the producers called me - I just got a random phone call one day and someone said, “Bill Condon saw your material and he would like to meet with you.” And, so, I was actually filming the TV series HELLCATS at the time, in Vancouver, so I just went over to the TWILIGHT set and I could not believe how hi-security it was - I mean, you could not get on the set!
PC: Even if you were welcome - or invited, as you were?PB: There were seriously security guards everywhere, but, luckily, my name had been left at the door so I got in.
PC: What was the atmosphere on set like?
PB: Well, I got there and went to the theater that they were shooting in and we all clicked - we just jammed and it all came together right away. I mean, the next day I was working on the film!
PC: That fast.
PB: Yeah - it was a really great experience and they really set up a nice environment for everybody on that. Bill, because of his musical background, really respects the choreography and the choreographer. There is a new surge of dance going through film and TV right now - within the last seven years, really - and there is a new respect for choreographers. Prior to that, I felt a lot of the time like I was being hired as crew, whereas now you are being hired as an artist.
PC: You get more respect.
PB: Yeah - especially on a set that Bill Condon is in charge of; he really has that respect and the reverence for theatre and theatre practices like that.
PB: Oh, yeah. That was all them one hundred percent. We had rehearsal with them for that scene specifically. Also, there was a Steadicam pass that we did that was actually with Jackson
Rathbone and Ashley Greene
dancing and they were actually doing swing dancing and flipping around
and all of that stuff, believe it or not! [Laughs.] They all had fun -
we all had a lot of fun on that scene. I loved working on TWILIGHT.
PC: Lastly: have you seen the final cut of TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN PART 2?
PB: No, I haven’t, actually! [Laughs.]
PC: What scene should we look out for that shows off your work best? Can you even say?
PB:
Oh, I can’t say anything about it! Honestly, there are confidentiality
clauses for this movie like nothing I’ve ever seen! [Laughs.] I'm
expecting a guy in a black suit and tie to show up at my door if I say
anything! [Laughs.]
PC: When Matthew Modine did this column and we were talking about THE DARK KNIGHT RISES he said essentially the same thing.
PB:
I bet he did! It’s so crazy - a while back I actually Tweeted about
TWILIGHT while I was up in Vancouver shooting it and I mentioned where
we were about to shoot something, on a location, and within five minutes
I got a call from the PR people, who were totally freaking out.
[Laughs.]
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