How did that madcap song and dance 'Good Afternoon' come together in Apple TV+'s 'Spirited'? A lot of tap-dancing takes for stars Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell, for one.
The most over-the-top sequence ofYet the five-minute number called “Good Afternoon” has Ryan Reynolds singing with a bad cockney accent, Will Ferrell tap dancing on a fallen wall, 40 other performers flooding a cobblestone street and Dame Judi Dench making a self-referential cameo.“We wanted to make this one the most comedic song in the film,” says director Sean Anders of the show-stopping moment.
The phrase “good afternoon” is imbued with vulgar meaning in “Spirited” and at one point disrupts a wedding. In reality, the innocuous phrase is not a historical insult. But it is what Dickens wrote Scrooge to shout at various other characters, “and older versions of ‘A Christmas Carol’ from the ‘40s and ‘50s use that vernacular as if it were a bad word,” says Ferrell. Reynolds suggested the joke be expanded into its own musical number, in which Clint tries to entice Present to let loose and revert to his former, unredeemed self.
Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell performed their own dance sequences — including the tap dancing, a first for both actors.
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