Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up) and Tommy Wirkola’s (Dead Snow, Violent Night) new shark horror, Thrash, is topping the Netflix charts. The stars of the upcoming movies gave us a peek behind the scenes of how some of the movie’s most tense moments were created. Phoebe Dynevor and Whitney Peak team up against some very aggressive, ravenous sharks when a massive hurricane breaks the levees, floods the town, and unleashes sharks into a suburban neighborhood.
The story tackles a serious look at environmental horror, and the damage humans are wreaking upon the planet at large, but makes it fun with high stakes shark encounters. While Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Whitney Peak’s (The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping) characters come face to face with the finned foes for some action-packed, suspenseful moments, the duo shared that the on-set dynamic was actually pretty funny.
“Well, we had a fin attached to a stick, and one of our guys would swim around with it,” Peak explained. “We would laugh a lot at that, in between takes,” Dynevor added. “Yeah, it was hilarious,” Peak agreed.
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To bring the digitally created sharks to life, the actors were on set with placeholders consisting of “either a tennis ball or two men with a really long stick pushing a fin,” Dynevor shared. It’s a common practice, but having to act horrified by a tennis ball or a stick being pushed around is a pretty funny image compared to the final result of the tense scenes.
Peak recalled a particularly dramatic scene where the crew members holding the shark stick were equipped “With scuba gear, and then going under sometimes, it was so good. I think we shot once where the shark was coming towards us, and we're holding this fake baby—”
To add to the comical image, Dynevor pointed out that during all this, “We're crouched down in a pool, when you stand up, the water's to our waist, so we're pretending to tread water and we're crouched down.”
“The shark is coming at us so fast, and we're just giggling and just can't really see. It was so funny.” Peak added.
“Yeah, the behind the scenes for this is hopefully hilarious,” Dynevor laughed. Here’s to hoping Netflix gives us a peek at that footage! Thrash also stars Djimon Hounsou and is now streaming on Netflix.
