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The final thing that set this one apart, though, is that the stunts
are real and that we got to do them in one take. To a car guy,
these shots are really cool. We either haven’t seen them before,
or it’s not the kind of thing you see very often. Edgar Wright was
agreeable to that. And I think it paid off in the end.
Which cars were used in the film?
We used a whole bunch. But the ones that we used extensively
were the 2006 Hawkeye Subaru WRX. We had at least four of
those. We used a Chevy Avalanche – two or three of them – and
we used a newer Mercedes, 2014 or 2015, S550; we had two of
those. We also did some work with the new Dodge Challenger.
We had a couple of them. And then one of the characters drives a
cop car, so we also had a new Dodge Charger. Those are the ones
that we did most of the work with.
What went into the thinking behind those picks?
Well, the idea with the first car, the Subaru, for example, was
that we wanted something that would be somewhat innocuous.
Nothing that would really stand out; something you’d use in an
actual heist. For the sequence where we used the Avalanche, the
idea was to go for something bigger and heavier because they
know that for that particular heist they might need something
with a little more mass than just a sedan.
Did you modify the cars for filming?
All of them had some work done to them, E-brakes, seat belt
eyes, that kind of stuff. There was an Avalanche that had a little
extra work done to it that makes going up on a wall easier.Ansel Elgort speeds down a highway
in new high speed, action musical
Baby Driver. Elgort plays Baby, a
gateway driver that is forced to
turn to a life of crime, but gets
to drive awesome cars while
doing it. Elgort drives the
Subaru WRX.