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CHERRYBOMB – Behind the Scenes

Filming: five weeks, July/August 2008
Budget: $1,5 Million

Behind the Scenes

Rupert’s most memorable scene to film: the “love scene”

Most difficult scene: the fight in the pool, as he and Robert Sheehan were in the cold water all day and they got pretty physical.

Rupert had his eyebrows and eyelashes dyed for the shoot.

Rupert said that the hairstyle helped him to get into character.

The directors spent a whole week with Rupert, Kim and Robert to rehearse and develop the characters.

Dialogue Coach Brendan Gunn recorded all the lines for the three leads to put on their iPods to listen. They picked up the rest from the crew, most of whom were local.

The Rotterdam (the bar serving as the “Lifeboat” in the film) actually became the casts’ local during filming.

In between takes for the kissing scene, Rupert and Kim did crosswords to calm their nerves.

Due to the tight filming schedule, Rupert occasionally had to live of candy bars and coke.

Rupert wanted to do the car stunts himself, but was not allowed to as it was quicker to shoot with a stunt double.

The love scene was filmed as a continuous shot of about ten minutes.

Rupert’s character wears a pair of very expensive black shoes. As they did not want those shoes to be ruined during the scenes in the pool area, they got a cheaper pair of shoes and painted it so that it looked like the expensive ones.

Michelle’s necklace (a throne, which she got from her dad who calls her “Princess”) is owned by one of the crew members who got it for her graduation and usually does not take it off.

During a break, Rupert walked up behind some crew members and said his line “Somebody ordered a taxi?” in such a perfect accent that the crew members were about to send that “taxi driver” off until they noticed it was Rupert himself.

The original title was “Sin Spree” and the boys’ deeds were related to the “Deathly Sins”, but the title was eventually changed to “Cherrybomb”.

The staff at the Leisureplex actually wear the same outfit as the staff in the film. While the crew was shooting at the reception bar, the Leisurecentre crew continued working in the room behind the counter, so the windows had to be covered with foil.