I'm Shawn Mendes.
I'm Grant Singer,
I'm the director of In Wonder, and these are some
of the scenes that we left on the cutting room floor.
This is what it's like, filming a documentary.
When you make a documentary,
you overthink things.
You overthink everything,
and you get lost in what people would think,
and you get lost in the footage,
and you get lost in the story,
and sometimes you lose the most magical moments.
This is one of so many magical moments.
But this is one of the few instances where
I actually was on stage, filming Shawn.
I think the truth about this moment
is, we both felt, onstage,
the energy of standing for something.
You can feel it in the hands of Grant,
when his hands are shaking holding the camera,
and you can see it in my voice,
and you can hear it in my voice, when I'm talking.
I remember feeling like, "Oh, this is 1000% making it in the film."
Sao Paulo.
Today across the entire world,
kids and people everywhere gathered together
for a global climate strike, for another time.
Now, I want to take a moment right now,
I want to take a moment right now with all of you,
I want to take a moment to stand with them,
and to support them,
and to use our voices, add our voices to their voices,
and say that we demand action on climate change
in our world.
Do you understand what I'm talking about, Sao Paulo?
It is up to us to stand our ground.
And to say that no matter what,
our youth will not be taken away from us.
Sao Paulo, sing this last chorus as loud as you can with me,
here we go.
♪ And you can't take my youth away ♪
♪ This soul of mine will never break ♪
♪ As long as I wake up today ♪
♪ You can't take my youth away ♪
♪ This soul of mine will never break ♪
♪ As long as I wake up today ♪
♪ You can't take my youth away ♪
I really think that, if Grant
and I are being honest right now,
and you know, I don't wanna speak on behalf of you but,
I don't know why this didn't make it in the documentary.
It felt like when we tried to put it in the film,
it just maybe it deflated some of the momentum?
That not being in the documentary does not take away
from the fact that that was probably one
of the most amazing moments I've ever experienced, period.
So many times I would come in and I'd be like,
"I can't have that in there,
I just sound like an idiot.”
And, “I don't like the way I'm saying that.
Please take it out. That's not me."
And then I would have three people turn at me and be like,
"That's my favorite part of the first 25 minutes."
I told Grant, I was like, "If I say don't film, film."
If I say like, "Shut the camera off,
don't shut the camera off."
But I think as the tour got tiring
and my work got harder, I would be like,
"Grant, you just gotta,
you just gotta give me some time here."
The part of me that's your friend wants to just,
say, "All right, guys, let's cut,
and give Shawn some privacy."
But then the filmmaker's like, "No, we gotta roll."
It’s, I think I was just feeling like,
"Oh, I have to make this perfect album,
for this perfect release plan,
for this perfect next wave of music,"
and that little, there's a kid inside of you
that's going, "I'm scared, I'm terrified
that I don't have what it takes to make this album.
I'm terrified that I don't have what it
takes to do this for a living.”
The heaviness of the tour, in a lot of ways,
made me want to flip things around
and become more positive, you know?
And I'm writing about anxiety more as
a companion that I have to live with
and less of an enemy that I'm trying to resist.
There was definitely times where I was like,
"You gotta be careful with Grant
and I today, because if you let us,
we'll just go straight down therapy lane, where we're like,
- I know. - "This is about the heart..."
you know, and we'll forget to talk about the fact
that I've just played a show for 50,000 people.
We'll be talking about our emotions for two hours.
If I remember correctly,
like, cut two or three, the film opened with that interview.
You could ask, “Why this didn't make it into the cut?
Why this didn't make it into the cut?”
And sometimes, it just comes down to
where it was placed at the time it was placed
didn't feel right, which removed its chance
for the rest of the film, by accident.
And I think a lot of the time we were figuring out what
the film was about, during those interviews.
It was helping us decide what was gonna be
the final product.
So, they were so necessary, even though they didn't make it
in the film, they helped sculpt the whole concept.
So basically we were planning on
escaping out of the hotel through the back door
and sending a decoy car out the other way so
that we could run across the street to this beautiful kind
of Thanksgiving dinner that we had prepared.
There was probably three, 400, 500 people
outside the hotel waiting for me to leave at that moment.
And that was the case when we were in South America,
pretty much anywhere there was,
200 to a thousand people outside the hotel, 24/7.
So obviously, Shawn could not walk outside
the front of the hotel.
Nobody tripped into a bush.
We didn't run away from any helicopters
with big lights on it or anything.
It was only as cool as it is in this video.
- Oh. - Oh, look at this!
- Oh wow. - Oh yeah.
You guys look like brothers on Christmas day,
or something.
Like your parents made you wear it.
Grant, are you there?
Yeah, I'm, I'm filming another camera.
You're filming on the nice camera.
All right, Shawn can't talk, so I'll talk for him.
But we're doing this elaborate plan
to go to a Thanksgiving dinner, and...
We need to walk kinda fast guys.
Walk at a normal speed, but go fast.
All right.
Oh, I was on vocal rest.
That's why you don't hear my voice at all.
Walking away.
- It fucking worked! - We made it!
That was the best plan ever!
That one actually worked!
Happy Thanksgiving.
I mean, I love this clip because it brings back
fond memories, but I don't know how emotional,
or what it does in terms of the overall story.
How many cuts did we have?
Honestly, I think we had 20 cuts at this point.
I have no idea.
What made it in the movie are the things that feel like
you're just witnessing something.
That to me has more integrity.
We both had a vision, and we knew what was in that vision.
Check out all the scenes that actually did make the cut
by watching my new documentary, In Wonder,
on Netflix, streaming now.