I’m Joe Berlinger and I’m the director

of “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.”

In this scene, Zac Efron is playing Ted Bundy.

Lily Collins plays his longtime girlfriend

who thought he was innocent, Elizabeth Kloepfer.

And they are about to adopt a dog.”

“Hi, hello.”

“They accidentally bump into Carole Anne Boone, somebody

who Bundy had interacted with at a job a few years back,

played brilliantly by Kaya Scodelario.”

“Hi.

I’m Liz.”

“Yes, this is my girlfriend.

We just got engaged, so — “

“This movie is a portrait of betrayal and deception.

And I think there’s a lot of narrative work going on

in a very short scene.

Each person in this scene has their own agenda

and perceives Bundy in a different way.”

“Whoever this woman is who’s accusing you,

I’m sure she’s just gotten you mixed up

with another handsome stranger.”

“Right.”

“And so we use a hallway that has

two intersecting corridors to make the characters feel

a little tense with each other.

And as Liz pulls Ted away, we see

in the deep background Carole Ann turn and look

and just stare as Ted and Liz continue to walk

towards the dog pound.”

“Aww.

Check this guy out.

He looks like he’d be a good roommate.”

“Ann Rule, who wrote “The Stranger Beside Me,” another

well-known book about the Bundy saga,

had a dog who loved everybody, but reacted quite negatively

to Ted.

And that’s a detail that I remembered and wanted

to inject into this film.

The fact that dogs, who are highly emotionally evolved,

saw the reality of who Ted was while, in this scene,

we see that each of the characters in some ways

are deceiving one another about their true intentions.”

[dog barking]

[dog growling]

[music]