M3GAN Star Amie Donald on Dancing Her Way Into Our Nightmares

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’s perfect blend of sly, campy humor and gruesome horror. Donald has a background in dance, so it makes sense to have the character show off some smooth moves, but M3GAN’s signature moment wasn’t actually in the original script. “The dance was never planned in the script. But one day [director Gerard Johnstone] thought it would be a great idea to put that in there,” she said. “So he asked my mom if my dance teacher would be able to choreograph the dance.

When asked for more specifics on how they came up with the dance moves, Donald explained, “Gerard gave us a list of things that M3GAN would do as she would dance. It was a fun process to try and come up with it, because he wanted it to be creepy and distracting—because after all, she is about to go kill someone! So he wanted it to be very distracting. He wanted it to be really weird and confusing. When we got it, he was very happy with it.

We had to ask: was it hard to move in that costume? It wasn’t, Donald said, but the M3GAN mask she had to wear was a bit troublesome. “It was hard to see out of the mask because I had limited vision. And if I was in the mask for more than 30 minutes, my eyes would fog up. So they’d have to take the mask off and wipe out the eyes so that I could see,” she said. “They did CGI to make my lips move, and the eyes.

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