“It was a blast,” says Camelli of filming the food fight.
“Everybody’s mustard was just drying to their shirt.
The smell did not dissipate in any capacity.
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It only got stinkier.”
But Camelli and Pasarow actually didn’t get the brunt of the fight the way the scene was written.
And we got to take shelter.
But I remember when we did it we had to run into the house.
And everyone became very primal and animalistic."
(Camelli adds that the bean placement was often painstaking to ensure continuity between takes.)
“With the food fight, we just had to get it,” says director Sofia Alvarez.
And they would be in the food fight filming, but like, ‘This is our one shot.
Don’t hold back.’
It was chaos."
“Alyssa won the food fight,” says Camelli.
“She was really aggressive.
She nailed it.”
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