[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers.]One of the most difficult tech challenges in Pixar’s “Elemental” was conveying what happens when fire and water — the intense Ember (Leah Lewis) and sensitive Wade (Mamoudou Athie) — finally touch after falling in love.
After all, fire and water don’t mix and Ember resists the temptation throughout the studio’s first rom-com because of the danger.
But she can’t resist any longer after spending a sublime moment together in an underwater garden.
The result is a new chemical reaction that grows stronger and induces them to dance and eventually kiss.“There was so much tension of what this contact was, the fear that they could be killing each other,” director Peter Sohn told IndieWire.
“What is this chemistry? Is it magnetic, electrical? This boiling, this roiling?”“Pete told me he was in Hawaii on vacation, and his kids were at the pool, and he boarded it,” VFX supervisor Sanjay Bakshi told IndieWire.
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