Hi, I'm Elle Fanning.
- And I'm Justice Smith and we're gonna take you
through the blue hole scene shot by shot.
(serene melody playing)
- Finch has taken Violet to show her the blue hole
- Yeah.
- So this is her first time being here.
- He's kinda been absent, right before this.
- [Elle] Mhm.
- She's not really known where he was
and then she asks him what he's most afraid of
and he doesn't feel comfortable enough to tell her.
- [Finch] I don't know, I guess,
losing my sister.
My mom's gone a lot,
my dad left a while ago.
New town, new family.
- Wow, it was a really, really nice day.
- It was a beautiful day. - We were all
very stressed out that it was gonna be freezing
for this day because we obviously
have to be in our underwear,
swimming in the water.
Did we shoot this - Did we shoot this
- all in one day?
- No, I think we shot it all in one day.
- All in one day.
Yeah, I guess.
- I think so
- [Elle] Look how nice it is. - [Justice] Yeah.
- [Elle] It was that sunny?
- [Justice] Yeah, it was beautiful.
- [Elle] It was beautiful.
(splash)
- Can I say about this dive that I did?
- That dive wasn't done in the lake.
That dive was done - That dive was done
in a swimming pool. - in a swimming pool,
in a gymnasium.
And they had like obviously
an underwater camera there with us
in the pool. - Yeah, they had
like two set up. - Yeah, like at the
same time. - Yeah, yeah.
- And then we would dive in and they had blacked out
the sides of the pool so they put
a black blanket basically over the tiling.
They obviously, with special effects,
made the water like a little bit greener.
- [Justice] Mhm. - [Elle] And like
lit it so - [Justice] More like water.
- [Elle] it looked like a lake - [Justice] Yeah.
- Um, because it would've been impossible for us
to shoot that at the actual location.
I think the water wasn't clear enough
to see us.
And also would've been extremely dangerous
because it's limitless. - Yeah.
- So the camera man would've had to be treading water.
You couldn't like, you know, we couldn't have set up
a camera - Yeah.
- that would've been steady enough.
- I didn't know how to dive
and I still don't know how to dive
and I practiced diving, and then on the day
the stunt coordinator was like, "Yeah the dives look good,
"they look good."
I'm like great, great, great.
And then I watched all the takes back
and I look like a frog.
(Elle laughing) And luckily Brett edited it
in a way where-- - He made you look like
- Kind of sm-- - Yeah.
- He like cut to the underwater shot.
(Elle laughing)
But, yeah. - Wow.
- Under the water there was a lot of like
jagged rocks that they made sure
we weren't gonna hit when we jumped in.
- Didn't you get hurt? - Yeah!
I scraped my leg - Yes.
Yes. - Yeah.
'Cause I didn't listen.
- You were bleeding. - They were like jump out far
- For your art - Yeah.
- Pain for your art. - Blood sweat and tears.
- Yeah.
- [Violet] Finch?!
(wind rustling through trees)
(splash)
Finch?!
(water splashes)
- I remember this being
- You did this so good. - really difficult.
- This, this was so good.
Oh, but when you go underwater
this is at the pool. - Now, we're at the pool
in the gymnasium.
(both laughing)
Yeah.
(both gasping for air)
- Asshole!
- What? - To get upset
and then have to... - Yeah.
- It's hard to breathe. - Yeah!
- It really is hard to breathe in the water
'cause also she's like hyperventilating
'cause she's freaking out. - [Justice] Yeah.
- [Elle] And I was like,
oh, to tread water
for so long - [Justice] Yeah.
- You don't realize how tired you get.
- [Justice] Yeah, that's--
- We got a good workout that day.
- With this scene specifically--
- We're just treading water
non-stop. - At one point
I thought I was like am I drowning?
Cause I couldn't, (Elle laughing)
I could not keep myself afloat.
- Yeah. - I'm not really a swimmer.
Elle was like chillin'.
She was in there for a long time,
but like I could not. - [Elle] I remember that
now it got cold.
Now we're freezing - [Justice] It was later
in the day.
- Do you know how scared I was?
- We were all on a race for time on this day
'cause the sun was going down. - Yeah.
- And we did my side first
and it was kinda sunny - Oh yeah.
- And remember we did your side
and it was like, the sun was gone
- Yeah. - So you can tell, see.
You're shivering. - I was so cold.
- We were both like- (Justice laughing)
- What?
- Do you know how scared I was?
- Hey. (water splashing)
Hey, Violet.
Violet, I'm sorry.
- It's also such a crucial point
in their relationship. - Yeah, I know.
- And in the scene, it's very intense,
like, she finally kind of cracks him.
- Yeah. - To open up to her.
- About himself, yeah. - So we're like this is such
an important scene, the sun's going down
- You know what?
Actually it kinda helped - Shivering death.
- It kind of helped, like the--
- The adrenaline of being cold - And yeah
the effects of I don't know,
they just kind of grounded you and your body,
which made you think less.
I know, I know I couldn't think at all.
- Hot tub! - Yes!
Oh, the hot tub.
(Elle laughing) Yes, the hot tub!
- They had a hot tub for us
on the side. - In between takes.
- We would go-- - We'd go get in the hot tub.
And we ate Sour Patch Kids in the hot tub.
Ah, the life.