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Owen Painter breaks down the fun and creative process of filming the fight scene with Thing, including pitching ideas to director Tim Burton and improvising on set.
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00:00How did you guys choreograph that?
00:02I kind of came up with a list of jokes that I had on the back end of my script
00:08of all the things I could think of that would be funny for a hand to do to someone.
00:13Yeah, get wet willy and all that stuff.
00:15I kind of did a day with the stunt team where we tracked out some of them,
00:20put them into a piece of choreography.
00:22They were teaching me how to do Buster Keaton falls and things like that.
00:26It was really fun.
00:26And then we pitched it to Tim and we did some of it,
00:31but then a lot of it after beginning shooting was just kind of figuring,
00:36messing around, figuring stuff out.
00:38I think we shot it for like a week.
00:40Tim just would come up with new ideas, new camera angles,
00:43new things to try every single day.
00:45Kept coming back to it and it was, yeah, so fun.
00:48It was really, really great.
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