TV producer Jesse Collins stated there was some strain following final yr’s epic, Emmy-winning Tremendous Bowl halftime present with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and extra, however working with Rihanna made the method simple.
“She’s a variety of enjoyable, very cool, by no means confused. Identical to, ‘All proper, I’m going to go do that actual fast.’ The strain by no means obtained to her. She simply was in it from day one, and actually heat and let everyone have enjoyable with it,” Collins instructed The Hollywood Reporter moments after Rihanna blazed the stage Sunday on the State Farm Area in Glendale, Arizona.
“I feel there’s all the time strain with this present,” added Collins, who additionally produced The Weeknd’s 2021 halftime present. “You’re employed so onerous, six months for 13 minutes. [This was] a possibility to work with a worldwide famous person and her re-entry into music.”
Rihanna final carried out dwell on the 2018 Grammy Awards. Earlier than that, she was on the street selling her album Anti, launched in 2016.
Collins received the excellent selection present (dwell) Emmy for final yr’s halftime present alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent and Jay-Z, who additionally produced the spectacle. He has additionally produced the Grammy Awards, Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BET Awards, American Music Awards and extra.
Rihanna’s efficiency — the place she introduced she was pregnant — was thrilling and energetic, and he or she sang a variety of her well-liked hits, together with “Work,” “Diamonds” and “Umbrella.”
“I simply really feel nice,” he stated of Rihanna’s present. “I really feel like her imaginative and prescient was executed. She shocked the world and the Navy’s [Rihanna’s fans] pleased, and I’m simply glad we obtained one other nice one within the books.
“We couldn’t have an enormous stage on the sphere due to the grass and they also put it within the air and it was simply sensible,” he added. “It was only a nice thought of the place there’s a will, there’s a manner.”
This text initially appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.
