Super Bowl Show Director Makes Alarming Bad Bunny Stunt Claim

As you can imagine, Bad Bunny’s action-packed Super Bowl Halftime Show required plenty of planning for everything to go off without a hitch – and some moments gave the performance’s directors more of a headache than others.

During his 13-minute Super Bowl set, at one point, the Puerto Rican singer and rapper famously climbed up a utility pole to deliver a performance of one of his hits.

And in a recent interview with Variety, it was revealed that “much to the producers’ chagrin”, the Grammy winner refused to use a safety harness for the stunt.

Director Hamish Hamilton told the US outlet: “He refused to wear a harness’. He was like, ‘I don’t need it’.”

But while Bad Bunny’s harness refusal may have been a health and safety nightmare, it turns out that there was one upside to 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!” Hamilton added.

Meanwhile, creative director Harriet Cuddeford recalled: “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.”

Elsewhere in their Variety interview, Cuddeford and Hamilton lifted the lid on more behind-the-scenes secrets, including how the team pulled off one piece of trickery that’s got everyone talking and an interesting revelation about the 330-strong crowd that shared the stage with Bad Bunny on Sunday night.

The duo have also admitted that not everything actually went to plan, with a couple of mishaps taking place that – fortunately! – no one seemed to notice on the night.