In recent years, movement director and choreographer Polly Bennett has become Hollywood’s go-to woman for actors taking on the challenge of playing real-life musical icons in big films.
She’s moved from coaching a model to avoid falling into a swimming pool while eating chocolate on a shoot to the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and theatre – including the Royal Shakespeare Company. Film and TV then came calling with credits such as Netflix’sHowever, the ‘most surreal’ moment of her already-impressive career was getting the phone call from‘I think he was on a ferry in New York, and I was standing on the high street in Edinburgh because I was up there at the Fringe.
‘I don’t want to be a famous person, I’m not in this to be known, but I’m lucky to have worked with some really gorgeous actors who understand that what I am doing as a movement coach doesn’t stop at movement. It’s not [that] I only take care of movement, I’m taking care of – or being part of the conversation about – their psychology, why they’re doing the thing that they’re doing, how they feel about the work that they’re doing as actors,’ she explains.
Bennett is an accomplished movement director and choreographer with credits including I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Bohemian Rhapsody and The Crown There wasn’t really a shortcut because the world’s watching and it’s Elvis Presley and people really care about him! That work included everything from rehearsing with music and singing coaching to studying karate; it was all ‘dictated by what we felt the script needed us to learn’, according to Bennett.
Bennett is aware of how much attention Butler’s so-called ‘Elvis voice’ has received from fans convinced he’s
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