Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): How an egg sandwich becameBirds of Prey's breakout star

When that perfect yolk breaks on the pavement, so does her heart. Do I want to talk about egg sandwiches? It’s really just an under-discussed topic. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures This random thing actually means a lot to me and Margot. It’s very important business. That is the be all and the end all! Warner Bros. Pictures It’s almost crepe-like and then folded over. But I’m a big believer in the sunny-side up and the soft egg yolk....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 381 words · Pamela Hancock

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): How filmmakers madeMulandefy gravity in that wall-run scene

Sometimes the best things only come after a little reflection. “That was why it was added to be another sequence that involved them and her.” They prepared to shoot the sequence with the same meticulous planning that defined the stunts throughout the filmmaking process. Credit: Disney “We made lenses that would particularly draw the audience to staying with Yifei,” she explains. “Sometimes we’d be on her face and we’d push the background out of focus....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 262 words · Paige Barron

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): How the art ofStrange Adventurescaptured a year of uncertainty

Outside ofa role on the underseen live-action seriesKrypton, Adam Strange is not particularly well-known these days. Gerads says they came upon the decision quite casually. “I’ve always just had an affinity for Adam Strange. Credit: Mitch Gerads and Evan Shaner for DC Comics The spacefaring ’50s thing seemed like a weird enough thing to do next that was different fromMister Miracle. So I was kind of just like, what about that?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 367 words · Stephanie Stevens

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): HowBoJack Horsemanshowed us 'The View from Halfway Down'

TV episodes often begin as notecards on a board. “The View from Halfway Down” began as one. “Eventually, it landed on being the penultimate episode, which I think was really fitting.” Credit: Netflix Each season,BoJack Horsemanfans would await the penultimate episode with bated breath. “That really created the driving force of what the episode was about,” she continues. Heavy material, of course, but as always onBoJack, it’s leavened with humor....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 181 words · Hannah Brown

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): HowEurovision's 'Jaja Ding Dong' became the song we didn't know we needed

They all came with the same message: “Play ‘Jaja Ding Dong’!” Freyr knew exactly what they were talking about. Not even Lars and Sigrit want to play “Jaja Ding Dong.” Credit: Netflix It’s a singsongy bar tune in the style of German schlager music with a call and response. At first, Freyr was “100 percent” against the idea of fulfilling this fan demand. “It won’t happen again. Elizabeth Viggiano/NETFLIX I promise,” he adds....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 536 words · Samuel Gilmore

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): HowExtractiongave Chris Hemsworth one shot

Director Sam Hargrave breaks down the lengths he went to for the film’s epic 12-minute action sequence. “What the heck were you thinking, you crazy son of a gun?!” “Joe knows action and big action, so when he wrote it it was huge. Credit: Jasin Boland/NETFLIX How do you do that without intercutting to those different characters? We shot the whole thing in Ahmedabad, India, but there were a number of different locations....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 150 words · James Phillips

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): HowNever Have I Everflipped the script with Ben's episode

The result was an incredibly creative episode within an all-around great season of television. EW spoke with co-creator Lang Fisher about how Ben’s installment came together. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Where did the idea for a Ben-centric episode come from? Credit: LARA SOLANKI/NETFLIX It stems from a place of loneliness and his own insecurities. So we felt like he would be an interesting person to do a special episode with. And how did Andy Samberg’s name get thrown into the mix?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 313 words · Diamond Gardner

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): HowNormal People's intimacy coordinator made those sex scenes so sexy

A TV show came out in 2020 that quarantine or no quarantine made us all sad and horny. Then there was this gap. Then there’s the realization of, actually, no, people are vulnerable. Credit: Enda Bowe/Element Pictures/Hulu Consent is needed both for touch and nudity, and of simulated sexual content. We’re inviting producers to do this right from the get-go. If you read a script and earmark a dance, you’re going to get a choreographer....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Dorothy Molina

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): HowPalm Springsunknowingly captured the year's biggest mood

Fittingly, a moment of isolation from the time-loop comedy isEW’s Shotof the year. Here, star-producer Andy Samberg and director Max Barbakow break down their not-so-lazy float. “We agreed pretty early on that it had priority,” says Samberg, also a producer. Hulu “It adds style and production value. When dealing with a low budget, you’ve got to pick your moments.” And 2020 has been a challenge in that way. I think the film has been luckily cathartic in a way we could not have anticipated....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Dan Arnold

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): HowThe Vast of Nightpulled off its stunning tracking shot

Falling squarely into the latter category,The Vast of Nightwas one of cinema’s best surprises. Interestingly enough, the script sort of took over, and the camera drifted out of the switchboard." The script pages below reveal how the scene was written. Jake Horowitz and Sierra McCormick in ‘The Vast of Night’.Credit: Amazon Studios One, the back of the gym didn’t actually have any windows. “Their work was above and beyond what I expected to get,” he admits....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 237 words · Billy Townsend

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes): The story behind James Marsden's unexpected return toDead to Me

Here, series creator Liz Feldman breaks down how she devised and executed Marsden’s unexpected return. James Marsdenwas never supposed to come back for season 2 ofDead to Me. The actor accepted his fate with a warm email to series creator Liz Feldman. Credit: SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX “He’s like, ‘Seriously, if there was any way to come back, I would.’ But he knew that it was a total long shot.” He was joking, but the email got Feldman’s wheels turning....

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 856 words · Latoya Thomas

Best of 2020 (Behind the Scenes):The Invisible Mandirector breaks down that shocking restaurant scene

How filmmaker Leigh Whannell created one of the year’s most memorable movie moments. Here, writer-director Leigh Whannell reveals how he cooked up the shocking restaurant scene inThe Invisible Man. “I start any screenplay with a notepad, thats my tradition,” says Whannell. Credit: Mark Rogers/Universal Pictures I still have them sitting in my office, this pile Ill sometimes leaf through. It has to be a brand new notepad for each new film....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 602 words · Stephanie Bennett

Best of 2021 (Behind the Scenes): HowHellionsturned Marvel's misfits into compelling superheroes

Writer Zeb Wells discusses the ins and outs of his comic that taught us to love the weirdos. It’s a good time to be a mutant. That means iconic X-Men like Storm now stand shoulder-to-shoulder with former mutant terrorists like Mystique. The cover of ‘Hellions’ #18.Marvel Comics But there are some very weird characters who have done some very terrible things. Those 18 issues tell a perfectly contained story with defined arcs for each of its strange characters....

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 862 words · Jesse Miller