Blockers' Puke Scene Explained By the Director

I'm Kay Cannon,

and this is Motes on a Scene for Blockers.

Hey, I don't,

I don't feel so good (belches).

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

We're looking at the scene that I like to call

the chase-puke sequence.

I'm very excited to dissect this scene

and show you a whole lot of puke.

Okay, so this is the first time

that the parents have intersected with the kids.

At this point in the movie,

it's getting to be a little intense,

and here, the character Mitchell has butt chugged.

Are you in it to win it?

That's right, he chugged beer up his butt.

And so, he's drunk.

It's not that good.

This is one of my favorite scenes actually

because it's where the parents are finally laughing

with each other, which is really exciting.

Ow, fuck, alright, it's good, it's fine, I like it.

Hey guys,

hey, I don't,

I don't feel so good (belches).

So the plan was that we were gonna do it

as much as they could from their mouths,

be able to puke it out

and then I would look to see like,

okay, that looks pretty good.

But if anytime anybody needed help,

I knew that I was going to use enhancements in post,

which is what we did here.

And half of this, this is real puke,

and this is CGI puke.

There's really actually not puke on his mouth.

It's disgusting, I know.

I think that's what makes it funny.

I had had a lot of puke in this scene,

and people didn't like it so much,

so I had to find a way to get people to like it.

And I went and saw Baby Driver,

and I'm like I oughta put this puke to music.

And I really need to thank Edgar Wright

because it really saved my movie.

(screams)

(screams)

(screams)

The plan was that everybody had their own flavor of puke,

you know, food.

(belches)

(belches) (screams)

Like I would ask Gideon, what is it that you like?

And I wanted to make sure that

all the puke had different colors

because people ate different stuff during the day

and the puke won't all be the same.

This is all pretty much CGI-enhanced.

Geraldine, not a great puker.

Austin, great puker.

This is rock solid coming out of his mouth.

Practical, saved us a lot of money.

Graham Phillips who plays Austin,

he was a really good puker.

And Colton Dunn who is the limo driver,

he's an amazing puker.

Man, it smells like (belches).

Also, practical, nailed it, first go.

These poor kids, I had just had them

puking so much that it started to feel

and smell like it was actual puke.

We were just a little bit like, ugh.

I would go up and give notes,

and I was just like, okay, take that again.

I love this group of actors so much.

They knew how funny this scene was,

and they committed so hard to it.

Alright, here's what we're gonna do.

Lisa.

Now back to the boring parents,

as they're developing their plan.

It's very exciting.

Okay, I'm gonna kiss it.

Here we go.

So for here, what was so cool about shooting this

is that I was in this car,

and we had a Russian arm, which is a big camera,

like a massive camera, that's my camera,

that looks like a tree,

and basically it can move, it can go all around the limo

and come back here and pull back.

It was so cool.

So I was in this car with this Russian arm,

and there's fumes, when we would be sitting there waiting

with the limo right next to us.

I was just like, I couldn't feel my arms.

I'm just like, yeah, I'm doing great

because I had been inhaling these fumes

whilst being super stoked to be in this super cool car

getting all the super cool footage.

I think this was on the first take.

We got a really nice spraying of puke

there that I felt like looked really good,

where you could still see the limo make that left.

(tires squealing) (people screaming)

There was so much planning that went into

creating this scene.

It started by taking Matchbox cars

and showing our production designer, our DP,

and our stuntmen how I saw it.

And so, I would just be like,

okay, and then the car's going here

and this one's following.

I chose to stay outside of the car

and just have the car spin as fast as it could.

So we have stunt people inside this car.

This is not Leslie.

That is someone in a Leslie wig.

And fun fact is that it's raining.

It was raining on this night.

We actually had a lot of trouble filming this.

So obviously, it's not raining here, in real life,

or here, and in real life, it was raining

and the rain was here.

Now we got rid of most of it with visual effects,

taking it out, but also,

there was a big ol' light somewhere over here

and there was a big ol' light over here

that we put in so that we could light the street.

And basically, we had to take out

so that the audiences wouldn't know

that we had lights there that looked like two giant moons.

But then we used our own lighting,

our manufactured lighting, to sort of help conceal the rain.

So this was shot on a sound stage.

They are actually upside down though.

One, two, three.

The car on the sound stage

is actually making these movements,

and then this is all imposed.

There's actually, I had a contraption

so he did actually have ass beer (laughs)

on his face (laughs).

Well, that's the last of the ass beer.

Also to note, because like I mentioned, it was raining,

there's tons of water here and here

and it actually hurt the placement of the car.

So myself and the crew, we took buckets

and we literally came out, and this is me with a bucket,

and I filled it up with water

and then we would walk across the street

and we would dump it across the street.

And we did that for probably about an hour.

We got rid of most of it.

But if you are watching this

and then you go home and you watch Blockers,

you can stop it and say, hey look, there's rain there

and it's not raining.

I didn't want there to be actual real danger.

For me, the joke was that it went from here to here.

So I had to make sure that the ditch was designed

a way in which we could believe that

it could stand up straight like this

and then on the inside,

make it feel like something really dangerous happened

and then pull out to just see that they've only gone

maybe two feet.

Because this is the first time that the parents

actually saw the kids and when the chase is on,

it's a really important time in the movie

because it's propelling us into the last half of the movie.

Once the parents crash,

it's the all is lost moment for them

because they don't know where their kids are.

And it's the all is lost moment for the kids

because they've puked all over each other.

Stacy Schroeder is our awesome editor of the movie,

and she and I worked really hard

to make sure that the back and forth

between the parents and the kids really clipped

in a way that would make you excited

to continue to watch the movie.