Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show Sparks Safety Concerns — Producers Reveal He Took a Major Risk Himself
Pulling off a Super Bowl halftime show is never easy, and Bad Bunny’s performance at Super Bowl LX was no exception. The NFL limited the team to just 25 carts to bring equipment onto the all-grass field at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. That meant the producers had to get creative to make Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, and his team’s big ideas come to life.
One of the most daring moments of the show came when Bad Bunny climbed a tall utility pole during his performance—without any safety harness.
Producers were worried, but the singer insisted he didn’t need one. “He refused to wear a harness,” said Hamilton, one of the producers. “He was like, ‘I don’t need it.’ There are all kinds of legal ramifications to that, which is not really my thing, but interestingly enough, when he decided he wasn’t going to wear a harness, we were able to then put a camera on the pole to look down at him climbing up!”
Cuddeford, another producer, added that Bad Bunny handled the stunt like a pro. “There was all safety and rigging and all of that available, obviously, of course, but he didn’t want it. He does his own stunts, that guy, and he learned it in about three minutes. Straight up that pole. At rehearsal, we were all like, ‘Is he gonna be OK?’ But he just went straight up there, and managed his vocals. Very agile. He could just, like, handle anything.”
The halftime show also included a tricky stunt where Bad Bunny fell through the roof of a pink casita. The timing had to match perfectly with a pre-recorded clip of him falling, which appeared on a TV screen inside the house where a family was watching. Cuddeford explained how precise everything had to be.
“The stunt itself, to fall through the roof, wasn’t so crazy — there’s a trap door,” he said. “They just literally open it, and pull it out underneath him. But it required so much meticulous planning, because we cut straight into the pre-tape. Inside the pre-tape was the shot on the TV of him falling through the roof of the Super Bowl — so the family in the la casita were watching the Super Bowl live, and then he fell onto their table. That’s basically two different pre-tapes: The pre-tape inside the house, and then there’s the pre-tape on the field of him falling through the roof during the dress rehearsal. And then comping that all together, then cutting to the transition of him falling through the roof and be able to kick the front door open.”
Pulling off these stunts, while also singing live, shows why Bad Bunny is known for his energy and creativity. Between tight equipment limits, daring climbs, and perfectly timed stunts, the halftime show was a mix of careful planning and fearless performance.
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