Director Lee Isaac Chung said he “was very naive” to film Twisters on location in Oklahoma during tornado season
, it was that there’s a lot of damn twisters in Oklahoma. If there’s one major takeaway from Lee Isaac Chung’s just-released! Still, the twisters seem to have gotten the last laugh because despite, you know, making an entire movie about it, Chung still had a leopards eating his face moment when he discovered that it was actually pretty tough to film an entire movie in the middle of an open field in Oklahoma because they kept having to run from—you guessed it—all the twisters..
Everyone on set quickly came to understand the massive power of these storms for themselves—no acting required. While they were able to capture some real cloudbursts on film , Chung “wasn’t fully thinking about how much we would be shut down by weather. It was just a constant thing for us.” The shoot experienced lighting delay after lighting delay—so much that the team wasn’t allowed to say the word “lightning,” as if they were invoking Macbeth in a theater.
But it wasn’t just the lightning. On Anthony Ramos’ first day on set, an EF-3 tornado touched down in a neighboring town and the team had to shelter there and wait it out for a couple of hours. During a scene where Daisy Edgar-Jones and her college friends run away from a tornado, the teamStill, the film somehow finished on schedule and Chung says the constant delays actually helped the team to bond while they sheltered and just talked about life.
While the results are beautiful, Chung isn’t about to become a storm chaser. “I wouldn’t take the gamble and say, ‘Let’s film there next tornado season,’” he said. “You never know what’s going to happen.
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