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How do you go about picking a Dave Meyers, with whom I don't think you've worked before?
No, I haven't. I did look at different video reels, but I was already familiar with Dave's work. He's done a lot of stuff on MTV. I was just watching videos and saw this name pop up. I didn't know if he was young or old. You just say, 'This kid is good.' You see his videos and see them getting better and better and he's only 28! They are so young now. Joseph Cotton, who did "Doesn't Really Matter," just turned 27, something like that. But yeah, you find them by just watching their work.
What are your challenges for doing something like this? The hours are rigorous. What do you find most challenging?
Trying to stay awake and keeping that energy up. That's the first thing that wants to go, especially when you have to dance. Our choreographers are always getting on me about keeping my energy up because that's the first thing that wants to go when you're exhausted. The camera draws energy. So when you see something that's choreographed such as on a video or something, there's so much energy that you have to put into it to get what you eventually see on screen.
You don't shy away with your ideas...
No, but to me, you're a team. You're all here, there's a common goal. You're a team and you try to accomplish it together. Someone comes up with something that's worth trying, you might as well try it. Whether it's me or someone else that comes up with it, if it works, it works. If it doesn't, you move on.
There were 1500 people lined up for the dancing auditions. What were you looking for? What did you find? How was it different from the last time?
There are definitely some new kids out there. I've only kept three that I've worked with in the past. But the rest were all new. I keep people that equal them in a sense with dance ability and how good they would look dancing together and knowing their body language. If they would look good dancing opposite another dancer, be it male or female. Those are things I consider. It's so, so hard because some of the kids I looked at are so new and I was like, 'I want to use this person, but they're a little too tall.' We joke, 'if we could just chop off their feet, it would be perfect!' Then I thought that we could use these two girls, but once again they were too tall. It's really tough. It's as if you have to match. You have to look like a unified group.
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