When you watch the dream ballet in Lady in the Lake Episode 6, know that filming the elaborate dance sequence proved kryptonite for the next Man of Steel.
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David Corenswet, who portrays Allan Durst in the Apple TV+ series and who’ll play Superman opposite Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane in James Gunn’s upcoming film, hurt himself during a break in filming the complex scene, director Alma Har’el tells TVLine.
The number takes place as Maddie (played by Natalie Portman) is unconscious in the hospital, recovering from the attack that happened in the previous episode. As she dreams, we watch a large-scale, choreographed dance — with Maddie at the center — unfold at Hecht’s Department Store. Various characters from the series, including Ferdie (Y’lan Noel) and Reggie (Josiah Cross), take part in the scene, which is backed by Peggy Lee’s “Me and My Shadow.”
Near the start of the scene, Corenswet’s Allan, who is dressed as a sailor, was supposed to perform “this extremely hard tap-dancing sequence down the stairs,” series co-creator/director Alma Har’el tells TVLine. “We rehearsed it so much, and we were incredibly worried about him falling down the stairs and hurting himself.”
She recalls how the production team kept cleaning and drying the stairs in order to make sure that nothing was going to trip up Corenswet as he made his way to the main floor. Then, during a break in filming, “He went to get coffee, crashed down the other stairs,” injuring his shoulder, she says.
The actor needed medical attention, Har-el says (“He was a hero about it”), and obviously was done with shooting for the day. So she and her team quickly came up with a workaround: Have a choreographer who was roughly Corenswet’s size fill in. “They kind of look the same, and we’re going to use him,” she remembers. “We’ll take the costume from David, we’ll put it on him. And as we say it, we look, we see the paramedics just cut the shift open off of David’s body.” She laughs. “That was a day to remember.”
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In the finished episode, “half of the footage you see is David dancing from a few angles that were recorded earlier,” she explains, “and then half of it is the dancer after we lost David that day.”
Har’el adds that Corenswet is “now very well. He’s doing really well. He’s going to fly in the sky.”
TVLine has reached out to Corenswet for comment.
Overally, Har’el is aware of how out-there Episode 6 is. “It’s going to divide people,” she says. “For me, it’s the episode that was not in the book that I felt was why it made this show possible for me. That’s where my heart is.”
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