![]() ![]() They allowed us to do something with a lot of emotional ups and downs just like we all go through in our own lives, the internal struggles we all go through. Our intentions were we just felt very lucky we had the opportunity to work with two such amazing performers in Maddie and Shia. I don’t know if “saddened” is the right word, but I feel saddened that people feel that way about it because nothing could have been further from our intentions. Obviously I think it’s completely ridiculous. I think when he turned up looking like he did, we just thought, “We'll just go let Shia rock with this look, and it's going to be much stronger.” At one point he was going to be in the blond bob and leotard. We actually did! It was the original idea. And we’ll give him our thoughts and it'll evolve like that.ĭid you ever consider putting Shia in a blond bob? Then Sia and I will let them have a play, then we'll come in and watch what Ryan has been experimenting with. Ryan also has an amazing assistant who he blocked the choreography with. I think probably over the course of a week a series of different rehearsals took place. One thing I remember is the scheduling of all those rehearsals was a nightmare. How long did Shia and Maddie rehearse before the shoot? But all that really crosses over as well. We'll just sort of discuss it back and forth and then on set, I'll have my eye on some of the more traditional filmmaking things, like how is this going to cut together? How’s it going to work as a film? What's the light doing? And Sia will be a bit more focused on the emotional aspects, the performance aspects. How would you describe co-directing with Sia? How does that work? He's obviously always up for an arty project. I think when Sia and Shia met, he was super-keen to be involved. So we eventually came around to the idea that we would use her again, and it'd be a little bit like a sequel to “Chandelier.” And then the great thing happened with. But I think we both felt that Maddie was such a phenomenal performer that it'd be crazy not to use her again. Sia had some other ideas, and I had some other ideas. We weren't always going to use Maddie again. And you obviously don’t want to do something half-baked. You feel the weight of having created something that has touched quite a few people. So we contacted her and that was that.Īfter “Chandelier” hit so big, was there a lot of pressure in trying to figure out what to do with “Elastic Heart”? I'm not the fan or reality TV that Sia is, but it was clear that there was something very special about Maddie as a performer. I've never watched Dance Moms, what are you talking about?" She sent me a link so we could watch an episode of the show together. Do you know of her?” And I was like, "No. And it was really Sia in the end who-you know she's a big reality TV fan? I remember her e-mailing or calling me one day and saying, “This girl Maddie. We really wanted to find someone interesting who we thought could embody the idea of Sia in an interesting light. ![]() We'd actually talked about all sorts of different dancers, like much older dancers. ![]() I guess feeling like that would be the most direct way to start this idea, that maybe another character could portray the idea of Sia without her actually being in it. We eventually decided we wanted to do something very simple with one dancer in the blond bob. But she had this great idea that this iconic thing of the blond bob would be a good way to keep her essential essence somehow in the projects. ![]() (Sia has tweeted an apology to those who “feel triggered” by the video).Īskill spoke to VF Hollywood recently about both videos, LaBeouf’s involvement-including his willingness to don Sia's signature blond bob-and what they really intended when casting a grown man and a 12-year-old in a deeply emotional cage match.ĭaniel Askill: Like you say, she decided she didn’t want to be the face of anymore. Since its debut on January 7, “Elastic Heart” has already amassed more than 35 million views and spurred a scandal over what some perceive as pedophilic overtones. The longtime friends and collaborators ultimately conceived a sort of sequel for the track “Elastic Heart,” which featured the return of Maddie in a cage match co-starring actor/headline grabber Shia LaBeouf. To follow it up, co-directors Sia and Daniel Askill were faced with the tough task of coming up with something that could potentially top it. Last spring, Sia had a surprise viral hit with the video for her single “Chandelier,” which cast Dance Moms standout Maddie Ziegler as the Australian pop star’s pint-size and fearsome doppelgänger. ![]()
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