Yara Shahidi Admits ‘A Lot’ Of The ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Movie Magic ‘Happened In Vancouver’ While She Was In L.A.
etcanada.comYara Shahidi has told ET Canada what went into playing Tinker Bell in the new “Peter Pan & Wendy” movie and how she managed to add to the magic of the film.
Shahidi — who stars alongside Alexander Molony’s Peter Pan and Ever Anderson’s Wendy in the flick — told Carlos Bustamante of whether she was on harnesses and ropes flying around a studio or if a lot of it was computer generated: “Well, a lot of the magic happened in Vancouver where I was not.
So they had built these incredibly epic and immersive sets in Canada, and then they did quite a bit of travelling for it.” READ MORE: See Yara Shahidi’s Tinker Bell And Jude Law’s Captain Hook In First ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Trailer She went on, “But for me, I was shooting in Los Angeles and I was concerned… motion capture is how they did the technology for Tinker Bell.
And basically what that is, is I go in and I give my performance, but then because they have to shrink me and make me fly and all these things, they have to recreate the whole thing digitally based on my performance. “And so it was quite funny because when I first signed on to the project, there was a world where I was supposed to be on wires and on a blue screen and taking Cirque du Soleil classes and such.
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