Themost infamous linefrom the oft-quotedAeronautstrailer begs the question:Dowomen belong in balloons?
The Aeronautsis now playing in limited release before hitting Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 20.
I sort of ended up being cured of it.
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But, Felicity was leaping around up there, so I couldnt exactly be too much of a chicken!
If youre afraid of heights, why thehellwould you agree to shoot a balloon movie!?
[Laughs] Ive worked with Tom before, and its great to be challenged.
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Weirdly, having a camera on your shoulder and looking through an eyepiece focuses the mind.
Certainly, my legs went a bit wobbly, and I clutched onto the middle partition in the balloon!
But, you sort of resign yourself to the fact that you hope it doesnt go wrong.
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Once you do that, you kind of enjoy it, right?
He was adamant that this was not to be an action-superhero film, and that applied to the camera.
So, the camera couldnt just do anything.
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So, we did a lot of mistakes you wouldnt normally do.
The light changes throughout the film.
It even looks overexposed as they get closer to the sun.
Theres less pollution, it gets colder because youre getting closer to leaving the atmosphere.
Its the idea of looking out of a plane window, that crystallized clarity you get.
We also stripped away the diffusion from the camera the higher we got.
There was a helicopter unit whove done hundreds if not thousands [of these shoots].
It was incredible how close they actually did go to the balloon.
They ended up within 100 yards of the thing, and that was a real gas balloon.
Theres one shot in the film where we reveal London [below] and thats all real.
The basket was 30 or 40 feet high, so we needed the right space.
So, we had an impromptu Radiohead gig at a very auspicious stage off a motorway in West London.
It was very strange, but thats where we did the film!
