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Hi, I'm Leigh Whannell.
I'm the writer and director of the film,
"The Invisible Man."
A lot of the film deals with paranoia and whether or not
Elisabeth Moss's character is really seeing something.
And this is a scene where she's actually
dealing with physical presence and a physical threat.
We don't get to meet our antagonist, Adrian.
You don't have to learn a lot about him
as the film goes on.
And so I wanted the threat to suddenly become very real.
And I thought it would be an interesting way
to shoot a scene like this where two people are
fighting, but you can only see one of the participants.
[RUNNING WATER]
And I could see that in my mind's eye.
I could see what that would look like if we pulled it off
well.
Turns out it was quite hard to achieve.
It took a while to get there, to get the thing on screen
that I could see in my head when I was writing.
But we got here, eventually.
[LOUD NOISE]
There's obviously moments in this scene
that Elisabeth Moss could not perform.
She's not a trained stunt performer.
She cannot be thrown across a table.
So then the question becomes, how
do we shoot Elisabeth Moss and then cut to somebody else?
So in the middle of the shot, we
have to match frame a stunt person in.
And then, so she'll do the actual throw
and she'll get thrown, and then she'll land,
and we have to freeze her and then match frame Elisabeth
back in.
And it was very technically difficult when she was
interacting with the stunt performer in a green suit
and when she wasn't.
Because as we found out when we did visual effects,
it's kind of easier to add something
to a frame with CGI.
It's hard to remove something, especially
a human body in a bright green suit.
Like if this person is moving and blocking the other actor,
and what are we going to do with that moment
where the stunt performer's arm is
blocking Elisabeth's face.
But I know that the visual effects
guys, a company called Cutting Edge, in Sydney,
had a lot of sleepless nights to get it looking amazing.
[BREAKING DISH]