Hey, I'm Joey King.
And I'm Taylor Zakhar Perez.
And we are going to walk you through the dance scene
in The Kissing Booth 2, shot by shot.
Ah, the moment where we walk in and see the stage.
How, wait–
How many people were in that audience, Jo?
It was, I think over 2,000 people were there
in the audience, like actually on set, watching us.
It felt like Lady Gaga was gonna pop up,
but we were the performance.
Now, watching these guys...
So, we actually got to know all of these dancers
that were "competing" in the competition as well,
because they were helping us learn our choreography
throughout the entire shoot
- for this dance. - Yeah.
And for all the other dancing that we do.
Wow.
I love their costumes, too.
Ruby, Ruby and Liam, like learned all of our dances.
Yeah, and the beach one, there was Liam,
that was your dance partner.
And then Ruby was in like,
there she is, right there, doing a cartwheel
in the purple shirt.
She was actually my dance double.
So when I needed her to do something,
she would go in for me.
And that day she actually had my-
she had to go back and forth between her outfit
and my outfit, several times.
Yes, she did.
Okay, Evans, Peña. You're up next.
- Thank you. - Good luck.
Let's go.
Okay.
Oh, this is obviously a big moment.
Joel, "Lee", discovers that I applied to Harvard.
Behind his back.
What the hell?
Dun, dun, dun!
Look at this backlight right here.
This is like, right before we go up.
The judges, the audience...
Okay, so here,
let me just say there was one really big thing
going through my mind.
- Just my luck. - Just say it.
Just my luck, okay.
So we had...
We only had two days at this location
to shoot this whole sequence,
but my luck was,
I came down with a gnarly case of food poisoning
or a stomach virus of some sort.
And then I thought, was like, "Please Joey,
don't throw up on me. Or I'm the DDM machine."
No, I'm just kidding, I was like,
"Oh God, I hope she doesn't get sick.
I hope she doesn't get sick."
It's a lot of tension between Elle and Marco.
This is like a huge moment for both of them.
Like, it represents so much more than just the dance.
It's kind of a rough road getting to this point.
So this is kind of like the payoff.
You know how like, how usually in films
it's shot out of order?
We like, we shot this like a month or two into filming.
So this was, it actually felt like the end of the movie.
We rehearsed this for so long.
Oh my God, it was so long.
And there were so many different versions
of the dance that we had to learn.
How about the moment when in rehearsals,
I kicked you in the face once.
Oh yeah!
So the part where I go right under Taylor's legs.
It's like, like I push up and kick back
and then Joey's right underneath and I just, boom!
But we made it that time.
And then she split,
like she learned how to go all the way down to the splits
in a matter of like two days,
it was insane.
We were rehearsing two weeks
before we started actually shooting
Like five to six hour days.
We also had to learn, like
I had to learn another dance with you.
And then I had to learn this other dance with Joel.
And the other iteration,
remember it was like,
rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal.
Hey, you wanna have some fun?
You sure?
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's do it!
This part where we're like,
"I wanna do something cool,"
I think it was like two days before we did the dance.
They'd finally decided on what that "cool thing"
was gonna to be.
- It was like, - Yes.
We couldn't settle on what the "cool thing"
was gonna be.
That is not me doing the back flip.
That was Oleskii
And, I mean, I was so down.
Joey and I were, acted like fearless gods, right?
We're like, "We can do this.
I can do that.
I can do a back-handspring.
I can do anything."
But I mean, look at him kill it.
So, the throwing in the air and the spinning was Ruby,
but the initial like, catch and start to throw
and the catch, was me.
Okay, so this part where we kick our legs up,
every time we danced,
every single time, that part,
I was like, so exhausted by that point,
every time,
- when we had to do the kick up, - Yes.
every time I was like,
"I can't believe
I'm having to kick my legs up right now and I have to-
"Joey, I want your horse kicks. Big horse kicks."
The choreographer would be like, "You have to give us horse kicks."
- I'm like... - Yeah.
"I can barely breathe, I'm so tired."
But she killed it.
And then oh, okay this moment.
The first time we did this moment,
the audience was all-they gasped.
They truly did.
'Cause they didn't know it was gonna happen.
No idea.
They gasped and were like, cheering for like half a second,
and then they booed me, us.
But they booed us.
That was crazy
they started booing us,
'cause they were all
they were all real Kissing Booth fans,
all the background actors were real Kissing Booth fans.
And also Jacob was in the audience.
And so they all like gasped and looked at him.
And then, let it be known,
Elle kissed Marco.
Elle did kiss Marco.
She went for it.
Mm, mm, mm.
And then we won.
I hope you guys enjoyed
going through this scene shot by shot.