‘The Mother’ Director Rejoiced When Massive Attack Signed Off on Song in Jennifer Lopez’s Epic Fight Scene
thewrap.comThe Mother” remains Netflix’s biggest opening weekend of 2023 with 83.71 million hours viewed since its premiere. One of the shining moments in the Netflix action thriller is the largescale hallway fight The Mother (Jennifer Lopez) embarks on in the Mexican compound of baddie Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal).
To the tune of Massive Attack’s “Angel,” Lopez goes from room to room, offing bad guys while trying to rescue her daughter. The song was always a part of director Niki Caro’s extended vision for the movie. “The thing about that sequence was I designed it to that song,” she told TheWrap. “I always had that song playing in my head.
I sent the song to the second unit director and stunt coordinator with the storyboards and I’m like, ‘This is the song.'” That meant that the trip hop band would have to allow Caro to use the song which, thankfully, they did. “It would have literally killed me if they hadn’t.
I was very nervous,” Caro said.Caro’s extreme precision was necessary as the sequence was shot on-location and storyboarded across two units of crew. “Niki had it all scripted out and choreographed,” Lopez said. “She knew precisely the way she wanted to shoot and it all built up to the climax between The Mother and Hector.
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