Spidey Smith reveals an Eminem story during the ‘Best Friend’ shoot.
Director Spidey Smith, who has worked with many artists in his career, recently shared an Eminem story during the shoot of ‘Best Friend‘ music video with Yelawolf in 2015. Ryan Smith, nicknamed Spidey, began filming music videos when he was 18 years old, with multi-platinum Bone Thugs N’ Harmony as one of his first clients. When he was younger, he worked on set with Eminem, but when he returned in 2015 to shoot “Best Friend” for him and Yelawolf, he discovered Marshall’s new side.
He shares how Eminem made him sweat before revealing that he was just playing with him. “This was my second time working with @eminem!! The first time directing him I was 22 years old… Young and naive to say the least. Simply stoked to have him in front of my lens. This go around I was 40 and a hell of a lot more seasoned. As a director it’s extremely important to check in with the artist periodically while capturing their performances to gauge their feelings about how they are seeing themselves on the playback monitor. Midway through Em’s church performance, he and I were chatting about his shots.
Me: “Em how you feeling about what you’re seeing?
Em extremely serious and straight faced in front of everyone: “I don’t know man.. I’m just not feeling it. It’s probably me. I don’t know… Maybe I’m off or something. I wish I knew what to tell you.”
This went back and forth for what seemed like eternity but in actuality was 2 or 3 minutes. I was beginning to sweat but contained my sudden panic.
Me: “I think I know what your needing. Let me fix. (I really had no clue… I just wanted to remove myself to think quickly and clearly haha).
As I began to walk back to set to sort out anything I could think of, Em yells, “Yo Spidey! Haha I’m just fuckin’ with you! I love everything haha!”
Shortly after @rosenberg whispers at me and says, “that’s how ya know Em likes you!” I’ve never felt more relief while on set than that moment!”
Spider Smith wrote with the visual of Eminem’s verse on ‘Best Friend‘. Check it out below.
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