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Director Zach Cregger opens up about the immense stress and logistical challenges of filming the chaotic ending of his film, 'Weapons.' Discover the intense preparation that led to recurring nightmares for weeks after wrapping.
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00:00I'm gonna dance around spoilers here but like crashing through the windows and the
00:04doors and is such a massive thing how did that how did you put that together
00:08what was the separate brutal first of all four days of shooting that sequence 17
00:14kids running through glass and all these crazy things and I mean every one of
00:18those little beats is like is a lot of prep prep is that is the answer to that
00:23question is like we have to do a ton of rehearsal we have to have VFX rehearsals
00:27and we have to have stunt rehearsals and we have to it just took a long time it
00:30was really stressful and I had for about a three-week period after we wrapped
00:35every time I fell asleep I would be ported back to set trying to get kids to
00:40jump through things like please focus please jump you know and it was like and
00:44I'd wake up be like it's not real it's over I already shot the movie I don't
00:46need to be doing this I could not get out of that mental rut of like corralling
00:50children through windows
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