A lot of prep work went into this meal.
Katy Perry has shared a behind the scenes look at the making of her music video for Bon Appétit.
The quirky vid sees the singer prepared as a dish for a host of cannibalistic diners, before the tables are turned and she forces them to watch her pole dance instead, (even though they are blindfolded).
‘Hi guys, it’s Katy Perry again. I know I’m always changing my look,’ she tells the camera. ‘Here we are, we’re on the set of ‘Bon Appétit featuring Migos, my friends.’
‘I am being served as a meal, its pretty fun. But the concept is basically, they think they’re gonna eat me because they’ve been prepping me this whole time,’ she explains. ‘But the reality is I turn it on them, it’s a trap. I’m gonna eat them.’
Although the finished article is just over four minutes long, the culinary prepwork for each scene takes hours: one shot of Katy served on a table took 90 minutes to decorate.
She had to remain perfectly still as they laid out the garnish; one of her crew members had to feed her with a fork.
Katy could do nothing but steadily laugh along when he opportunity to tease her with a bite of chicken held tantalizingly out of reach.
A very antsy Migos are then introduced, who somewhat overshoot with their prediction the song will be ‘the biggest record of the summer.’
‘Torturing our victims with vegetables,’ Quavo delights, as he pretends to knive one of the victims. ‘That’s a carrot stab to the face.’
The food preparation for the video was clearly taken very seriously by professional food stylist Joanna Holbek, and celebrity chef Roy Choi.
‘When I think Katy Perry I think spicy,’ he says, before listing ingredients that aren’t really spicy, presumably to offset Katy’s spiciness.
‘I have pomegranate seeds, red onion, lots of herbs, definitely just all kinds of vibrant flavors….you have meat on her as well?,’ he asks Holbek.
‘She’s the meat!’ Holbek replies.
Katy then appears to somewhat regret the boiling scene that follows.
‘This is the soup scene… this as glam as f*ck. Glam. What a great idea,’ she drones.
‘Does he want to do a highlight reel of all the other sh*t I put myself through? Hanging from a cliff, almost getting eaten by a tiger… am I a troll? Are you cooking the troll?
She digresses: ‘Sometimes before I go into public pools, I think about all of the body parts that also go into public pools together… it’s really hard to go into public pools sometimes.’
