- [Director] Three, two, one. Action!
(upbeat music)
- [Halsey] I started writing the album
right around the same time
I decided that I was going to try for a baby.
(upbeat music)
(Halsey coughing)
Sorry. (Halsey coughing)
(film crew talking)
(speaking foreign language)
(Halsey coughing)
(somber music)
- Pregnancy is one of the most dangerous things
a human being can
experience.
All of it provokes images and feelings of horror to me.
There's beautiful parts to it too
like I've thoroughly enjoyed the experience
but that doesn't mean it
hasn't been really scary,
because it has been.
And so that's what the record is kind of about.
- But literally we're stepping on like
fucking jagged rocks and the old tree branches.
I'm worried about the length of the run.
- [Man] Okay.
- Because I'm not really supposed
to be doing cardio.
(murmuring)
- [Man] Beautiful. Cut it. Nice work.
- [Man 2] Cut.
- Wooo!
- I'm cramping bad.
Ohhh oh
(indistinct)
- No, I think it's okay.
Ah, what the fuck dude?
- Is it your stomach?
- It's like rubber bandy
- [Woman] Yeah.
- No, it's in the front.
- [Woman] It's in the front?
- Yeah. It's like here.
- [Man] Let's clear.
Let's give her some space.
- [Woman] It's like here.
(film crew murmuring)
(foreign language)
- There was nights where I had to
cut it short sometimes.
I think this is my last one.
- It's really jarring for the baby.
- Okay.
There was actually like a moment
that I was there and among this like set
and all these people were like, relying on me.
I was like, am I gonna be able to do this?
Like seriously?
Like, am I gonna be able to do this?
This isn't up to me.
This is up to the baby.
And luckily I did
(thrilling music)
We had Sasha, come.
She's the midwife.
It was really important for me
to have that character
be someone who had given birth before
'cause I wanted it to feel really authentic.
- When I read the description.
I was like, this is me.
- I was meant to do this job
- Sasha had a baby while shooting.
She's working.
She's a creative, she's a badass.
She had this beautiful baby
and like did all of it.
It weirdly gave me personal confidence.
(Halsey breathing)
- Another day, another bleeding labor gown.
As the old saying goes.
Making a post-forest labor gown
with mud and
blood on it.
- Blood.
- You've never seen blood?
I wonder how much easier my life would be
if I didn't do so many things myself.
- Oh gross.
- I think I thought I was like a
really easy going person until the shoot.
And then I realized how like type A I am.
That was like a reality check for me.
I literally went to catering and
made a special effects placenta out of bread.
I do my own makeup.
You know what I mean?
So, like on top of playing two characters, being pregnant,
trying to like supervise the story and doing all
the special effects too.
I definitely had my hands full.
There was like no time to rest.
(guitar playing)
I was fully committed.
I grew out my armpit hair.
I also grew out all of my pubic hair, but I couldn't get
it to be like thick enough.
So Marty and I had to collaborate on the best way to make
like a functional merkin
which is basically like a vagina wig.
- My bush.
(Laughing)
- [Man] Can't say that on camera.
(upbeat music)
- Lila, the protagonist has so many different looks
and the looks are kind of
supposed to show the degradation
of her character.
Because the movie has minimal dialogue,
we have to tell a lot through how things look.
The makeup and the styling and the wigs
were like so, so important.
- It's the hair room and this is where
we are storing pretty much all of the looks.
For me it was like, how do I create the DNA
for these characters
along with Halsey's creation.
(film crew talking)
(upbeat music)
- When Lila is in the courtroom,
she's got like fake tears on her face
and she's wearing her most ornate outfit
we see in the whole thing.
She's basically mocking everyone and she never
tells you that's how she feels,
but the outfit tells you.
(Upbeat music)
- Look at what's going on.
(laughing)
- Get out.
(Foreign language)
- Action, I stagger step.
- Yeah. Stagger step.
And then she's gonna kind of run
into you and you guys can then walk out that way.
- Take a swig, and then just fuck shit up.
- And, Three Two One
Action!
(upbeat music)
- We see her during the girl with a gun chapter
where she's in a custom Vivienne Westwood.
That whole scene is this like hallucinogenic trip
where she's letting go
because she knows deep down that she's pregnant
and like basically her life is over.
- It's happening.
You're getting head.
- She's completely disheveled.
She's like running amuck with her friends.
The outfit kind of is indicative
of that state of mind.
- Usually I'm like right here.
Do you want me to cheat back a little bit
So you get more,
like one more step?
- Go ahead.
Let's see what that looks like.
- Wow
- Very, very cool.
- Cool.
(suspenseful music)
- One of the things I noticed I had to do
when I got pregnant was
I had to like get permission from people.
I had to call like a lot of like
rich white executive dudes
and be like,
"Hey, so I just wanted to let you know
that I'm pregnant,
but I promise I'm still gonna work really hard."
And like calling a bunch
of people who would never have to call me
if their wives were pregnant.
It made me feel so weird
like I didn't have autonomy.
All of that became themes in the film.
(intense music)
(screaming)
(glass breaking)
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- Okay. So King's chambers un-kingly behavior?
- [Man] Yes.
- Okay.
- And you wanna just free, just go for it rather
than planning anything?
- As long as he knows I'm pregnant
- [Woman] Okay.
- In real life.
- [Woman] Yeah. Like he--
- And he doesn't try to like
throw me or anything. [Woman] Yeah
- Just tell him he can't touch me in the stomach.
- [Woman] Okay.
- I will teach you some respect.
Everything
- You have given me nothing but a lifetime of misery.
- How dare you.
I made you my queen.
- Oh, you made me.
(intense music)
- Three, two, one
Action.
- Aargh!
- Three, two, one, action.
- Aargh!
Aargh!
- Let's get a blanket.
Get a blanket.
- I think the end was too much.
- I think you, you hit the edge, like it's time
for the day.
It was, I don't know that it was too much,
I think it was just,
we definitely couldn't be doing this
until 11 or midnight.
You know what I mean?
- I just felt like really guilty right now.
- Don't feel guilty
cause guess what?
He's totally fine.
I'm just gonna feel your tummy okay?
Sweetheart, it's okay.
It was a lot, but you did it, okay?
- Mmhmm.
Okay.
Yeah.
Hey Maria, can you bring me a makeup wipe
- Yeah
- Big day
- You want a second one?
- How do I look?
- You might need a second one
(laughing)
(upbeat music)
- Lands on your face
and then somebody squeezes this sponge with water
Action.
- Yeah. So start off slow
So you guys won't get dizzy.
(soft upbeat music)
- He's good. He's a good actor.
- Yeah. He's doing really well.
- He obviously the star of the show.
- I would say so
- Yeah
(piano playing)
- This is my forte.
- Miranda, you gonna have me like this?
- [Miranda] Yes.
Yes.
Breathe Ashley, breathe.
Focus.
- I can't
- Oh my goodness
- Ahaaaaa! Sorry. Sorry.
- How many fingers should I put in there?
- Miranda?
- It's not serious, but it's a logistical question.
I guess is three.
- I think it's just two fingers
'cause like, three, sir.
(laughing)
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- Sasha. She is like so strong and so powerful
and we were like having that moment
like locked in together
and I was like, wow, this person
in front of me had a baby.
Like she did it.
I'm gonna be okay too.
(Crying)
(intense music)
- I am getting so many things that I never
thought I'd have.
Be it a family, a baby,
an album with collaborators that I've desired to work
with for a very long time.
The freedom to make
art in the way that I've been able
to in the past year. Those were all things
I never thought that I'd have
much less have all at once.
And this is like the first time
in my life where
I have to go focus on me for a little bit.
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