Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell were possessed with fear about the prospect of full-throated singing and dancing. 'Spirited' is the real musical deal, with songs written by Oscar winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and sung alongside top Broadway dancers.
Anders also found a YouTube video of the"Deadpool" star wearing a unicorn mask and singing"Tomorrow" from"Annie" on the South Korean"Masked Singer" during a 2018 promotional tour. "This was before 'Masked Singer' was ever in the United States. So I was thinking this is an obscure South Korean show. No one's ever going to see this or know about this. It was so terrifying and traumatic, but fun.
"I talked to Hugh Jackman a bit about this. It's in his bones, he's just so good at it," Reynolds says. "So obviously he was no help." They even reminded Pasek and Paul to go easy with the songs. Anders sent song and dance instructors to Ferrell and Reynold's homes for training even before the"hardcore" full-time work began seven weeks before shooting in Boston. Those sessions meant song, dance, and even tap-dancing all day."And tap is just as athletic as any endeavor you could try," Ferrell says."It's very hard.""I had terrible ones. And I'm not even making this up," he says.
"I found myself walking around the Boston Commons listening to the tracks and performing them to no one other than strange passersby at 4:30 in the morning," he says, acknowledging he looked really disturbed."They were probably thinking: 'That guy looks like Will Ferrell. It would be so sad if that were him.' But it was me.
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