Somewhere, a casting director just got a migraine.
“She was literally bouncing off the walls of the waiting room,” recalls casting agent Marcus T. “She brought her own boombox and was playing Lizzo to warm up. We knew immediately—we needed that chaos.”
“I learned that you can be yourself anywhere,” she says, adjusting that pink bucket hat. “Even if ‘yourself’ is just a really bouncy person standing next to a Lamborghini.”
Naomi, a 22-year-old part-time yoga instructor and full-time optimist from Tampa, had never been in a music video before. In fact, she had only been to one club in her entire life (for a friend’s birthday, she left at 10 PM because she was tired). The video was shot in a converted warehouse in downtown Los Angeles. The concept was "luxury heist": expensive cars, a fog machine that never turned off, and a lot of serious faces.
Director James “J.D.” Delaney almost cut the cameras. He wanted grit. He wanted street. He got a human golden retriever in platform sneakers.
