Warning: This article contains spoilers forWhite Noise.
Gerwig is a longtime admirer of the film’s choreographer.
“I’ve been a fan of David Neumann since I was in college,” she says.
Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle in ‘White Noise’.Wilson Webb/Netflix
“He’s so great at creating movement that is both choreographed and pedestrian at the same time.
It’s very special.
He’s good at capturing the absurdity of every day movement and seeing these patterns that are quite beautiful.
‘White Noise’.Wilson Webb/Netflix
He started sending Noah these videos of dancing with cereal boxes that are stuck to his hands.
It’s absurd but it’s only as absurd as life is.”
The sequence was shot on a vast supermarket set whose construction was overseen by production designer Jess Gonchor.
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“[He] did such a brilliant job,” says Baumbach.
“That was an empty Home Depot that he built an ’80s supermarket in.
It was a masterpiece of a set.
Gerwig recalls actually filming the sequence with a mixture of fondness and amazement.
Was Gerwig exhausted when she got up on the third day?
“No, no,” she says.
“I feel like a could have done it again, it was so much fun!”
White Noiseis now available to watch on Netflix.
See the film’s dance sequence below.
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