TV producer Jesse Collins mentioned 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 numerous enjoyable, very cool, by no means harassed. Similar to, ‘All proper, I’m going to go do that actual fast.’ The strain by no means acquired to her. She simply was in it from day one, and actually heat and let all people have enjoyable with it,” Collins instructed The Hollywood Reporter moments after Rihanna blazed the stage Sunday on the State Farm Enviornment 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 world 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 highway selling her album Anti, launched in 2016.
Collins gained 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 quite a few her in style hits, together with “Work,” “Diamonds” and “Umbrella.”
“I simply really feel nice,” he mentioned 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] glad, and I’m simply glad we acquired 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 good,” he added. “It was only a nice concept of the place there’s a will, there’s a means.”
