Cruella director Craig Gillespie discussed the one scene that he cut from the film and which actor had the most alt lines.
Gillespie spoke to Collider about the hit Disney movie, which left very little on the cutting room floor. As it turns out, the director designed it that way. "We don’t have a lot of deleted scenes," Gillespie said. "I design it. I sit down and shot list with my DP, Nicolas Karakatsanis, and we figure it out. It’s shot to edit. The way we shoot the scenes, we know which shot goes with which shot, so it all comes together."
That said, Gillespie did reveal one cut scene: "I think there’s one scene with the Baroness where she cuts up one of Cruella’s designs. It’s probably 45 seconds, and we lost that scene. It was modulating the humor in the third act."
Along with that more substantial cut scene, the director revealed that plenty of smaller moments didn't make the film. "Paul [Walter Hauser] does so much fun stuff. It was about how much we wanted to keep the gravity of what’s going on versus having these punctuations of humor," Gillespie said. "That’s the only stuff. There are some jokes from Paul that I loved in the third act, that just didn’t fit the tone of where we were, at that point in the film. He’s such a great improviser that there’s endless alt lines from him."
Academy Award winner Emma Stone stars in Disney’s Cruella, an all-new live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinema's most notorious – and notoriously fashionable – villains, the legendary Cruella de Vil. Cruella, which is set in 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, follows a young grifter named Estella, a clever and creative girl determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute, played by two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
Directed by Craig Gillespie, Cruella stars Emma Stone as Cruella de Vil/Estella, Emma Thompson as Baroness von Hellman, Paul Walter Hauser as Horace, Joel Fry as Jasper, Emily Beecham as Catherine, John McCrea as Artie, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Anita Darling, Kayvan Novak as Roger and Mark Strong as John. The film is now in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access.
Source: Collider