How didOK Gooutdo their masterful treadmill routine in the"Here It Goes Again" music video?
By achieving the im-paw-sible.
“We never got the chimpanzees in spacesuits, but that’s where it started.”
OK Go shooting the music video for ‘White Knuckles’.OK Go
“Some people just didn’t really get it,” Kulash recalls.
Finally, the real work began.
First the band planned the dance using stuffed animals as stand-ins for the dogs.
Then 12 trainers taught 14 rescue dogs (and one goat!)
the choreography for three months.
“It was incredible the dogs screwed up less than humans do.
Dogs are very predictable.
What they want is food.
And once in a while they want to check out each other’s asses.”
It was just a matter of teaching her and getting her to comprehend what you wanted.
And she was a dream on set, generally."
For 72 takes, Bunny performed her part beautifully.
And there was only one day left of filming to go.
When Bunny finally returned, she was safe… but she also reeked.
“She smelled like the worst bog sewage.
It was so bad,” Kulash says.
“I don’t know what she did.
She must have found a dead animal but also in, like, a swamp.”
Kulash washed her all night, and to his human nose, she eventually smelled normal again.
“We were like, what’s going on?
Did they know that yesterday we had a wrap party too early?
Are they just revolting?
Like this incredible ‘What have you become, Bunny?!’
And we realized that, to dogs, Bunny was not anywhere close to clean.”
“The entire rest of the shoot was gone because of Bunny,” Kulash says.
“We never got a better take because of that little… well, bitch.”
“Luckily, they’re not cats,” he says.
“Can you imagine?”
A version of this story appears in the April issue ofEntertainment Weekly,available on newsstands March 18.
