Bad Bunny Super Bowl Director Explains Tree Costumes During Show

The creative director behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance is lifting the lid on how one of his halftime show’s most talked-about details came to be.

In a new interview with Variety, creative director Harriet Cuddeford explained that this came about when the NFL wouldn’t grant Bad Bunny’s team permission to use the 25 carts that would have been necessary to bring their plans to life on the field.

Their solution, apparently, was to ditch a lot of their intended foliage in place of around 380 costumed background artists.

Cuddeford admitted: “That solution of making the plant people, and then the plant people getting on and off in time, plus all the sets and all the performers – it was audacious in every direction. There were over 330 actual cast performers in addition to the plant people. It was just huge.”

She also shared: “There’s just so many variables in live TV. Even the weather. It was on a real grass field, and there’s no roof. We had to have backup rain plans.

“There were so many things that could have caused an issue. But it just kind of almost flawlessly unfolded before our eyes. We were all just like, ‘Wow, it worked!’.”